Be an “Easter People”

With this excerpt from a message Chiara Lubich gave us for Easter 1994, we wish each other a Happy and Holy Easter!

“Dear all,

Easter, the greatest feast of the year will soon be here and with it Holy Week, which abounds with the most precious mysteries of Jesus’ life. We are reminded of these … on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, and for us, they represent central aspects of our spirituality.

We celebrate them with the Church through the holy liturgy, but because ours is a ‘way of life,’ we also honour them with our lives.

How should we live these blessed days of the year? I think that the best way to live all of them, is to live “Easter”, that is to allow the Risen Lord to live in us.

And in order for the risen Lord to shine out in us, we have to love Jesus Forsaken and always be, as we say, “beyond the wound,” where charity is queen. Then charity will urge us to actively be the new commandment; charity impels us to draw near to the Eucharist which nourishes divine love in our hearts …; charity leads us to live in unity with God and with our neighbours. In a certain way, it is through charity that we can be another Mary.

Yes, the best way to live the various aspects of Jesus’ life recalled during Holy Week is by proposing to allow the Risen Lord to live in us

Dear friends, this is what we would like to propose to you and this is what we are trying to live. By doing so, all of us together will truly be the “Easter People”. And as a consequence, we will better understand the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Chiara Lubich