JMJ+OBT
Omnia Pro Iesu Per Mariam!
Omnia Pro Iesu Per Mariam!
THE LORD IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!
Jesus, Our Great King and Victor has risen from the dead. Jesus comes forth from the tomb with the standard of the Holy Cross raised high and gifts us with new Life, new Light and a new Love. We are to RISE IN JESUS and embrace this new Life, new Light and new Love.
Jesus came to give us Life, abundant Life, and the eternal Life we received in our Baptism. We are to live our Baptism IN JESUS. In Baptism, the old man died and the new man has risen. Never go back to the old man of sin and death. Live in the new man and RISE IN JESUS!
Jesus came to give us Light. Jesus is the Light of the world. Jesus' Light leads us to the Father in Heaven. We embrace this Light and help the whole world see that they were created by God and are to live wholly for God. This Light empowers us to see that God has a wonderful plan for each of us and that we are to live as Church. We see everything by the Light of Faith.
Jesus came to give us Love. God is Love. Jesus is God. We enter into a new level of living in Love because we live in God. Jesus established the law of Grace and Love, and in the power of the Resurrection we receive the power to truly Love by living IN JESUS.
In the resurrection we are to RISE IN JESUS. Rise above the fears, doubts, worries and anxieties of this world. In the resurrection Jesus gifts us HIS VICTORIES over sin, satan, death, the flesh and the world. CLAIM HIS VICTORIES! We are to RISE IN JESUS!
Ask Our Lady to help you have a LIVING ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST in the resurrection. We see Jesus appearing to the Disciples and others in the resurrection. One LIVING ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST in the resurrection will change our life. We see this in the life of St. Paul who encountered Jesus in the resurrection.
Through this LIVING ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST in the resurrection, St. Paul found the grace and strength to share the LIFE, LIGHT AND LOVE that Jesus won for us in His Paschal Mystery. Like St. Paul we ask two questions everyday: 1. Lord, what is it you wish to do with me? and 2. Lord, what is it you want me to do for you? We live our Baptism IN JESUS and share the Good News of Jesus with all of the world.
In the school of Mary, the first and perfect Disciple of Jesus Christ, we learn to contemplate the face of the risen Christ and draw strength to live in the Paschal Mystery of Christ. For 50 days we will have a special grace to "CLAIM" the VICTORIES of CHRIST by learning to RISE IN JESUS. Temptations and trials will still present themselves, but we manifest the VICTORIES OF CHRIST and RISE IN JESUS.
May you learn to live a live of Faith, Hope and Charity. May you live your Baptism and RISE IN JESUS. May Our Blessed Mother, Mary, teach you to contemplate the face of Christ and sing with all your heart and soul the song of the resurrection: "ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!"
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Through the intercession of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. Michael, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, St. James, St. Therese, St. Rita, St. Philomena, St. Jude, St. Nicholas, St. Alphonsus, St. Peter Chrysologus, St. Zachary, St. Elizabeth, St. John the Baptist, St. Perpetua, St. Felicity, St. Francis, St. Veronica Guiliani, St. Joan of Arc, St. Louis, St. Joseph Calasanz, St. Padre Pio, St. Patrick, St. Bridget, St. Columban and all the Holy Angels and Saints may you be abundantly blessed in the Covenant of Communion of the Most Holy Trinity, with my Priestly blessing,
Father Zachary of the Mother of God, SOLT.
