April 19, 2019

My Journey to God

Await Easter with Longing

Await Easter with unconditional joyous longing
Let the longing captivate your heart and soul
Await with great anticipation of the risen Christ
May your heart be filled with abundant love.
Await Easter with Longing

Enter Lenten fasting with obedience and humility
Make your sacrifices reflect those of Christ’s blood
Decrease in order to increase your inner landscape
The inner landscape where the seeds of hope are planted.
Await Easter with Longing

Come into Holy Week with a soul that is cleansed
Cleansed of sin in the redemption of Christ’s blood
May the risen Lord’s sacrifice be always in our heart
May we give praise that is always on our lips.
Await Easter with Longing

Await Easter with unconditional love and longing
Let your body quiver with unprecedented anticipation
Color and light replace darkness on Easter Day
Christ died for us so that we would always have salvation.
Await Easter with longing

By Thomas Rillo
 

(Thomas J. Rillo is a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington and a Benedictine oblate of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad.)

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