News and Prayerful Reflections
 April 2012

April 17 – Bl. Baptist Spagnoli of Mantua – (1447-1516) –Priest
April 18 – Bl.  Mary of the Incarnation - (1566-1618) –Religious
April 23 – Bl. Teresa Mary of the Cross Manetti -(d.1910) – Virgin

Carmelite Reflection about Easter and St Paul's 1st Letter to the Corinthians

"I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received:
that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures and that
he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day
according to the scriptures" (1Corinthians 15:3-4).


Christ is risen, and has promised to take us with him. This life is
not the end; we too will be transformed in endless life and beauty. Human life
is good, but it will end. The resurrection gives hope and meaning to our
existence here. In our weakness we will after death be raised in glory. Again
there is continuity: it is I (not just my body) that I hope will be raised. As
Paul writes:


" So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable,
what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory.
It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body,
it is raised a spiritual body" (1Corinthians 15:42-44).

"Christ is risen from the dead,: By death He conquered death,: And to those in the graves: He granted life!"
Ruthenian Byzantine Easter proclamation

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