The Easter season is rich with excitement and celebration! Not only do we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, but we witness to his ascension and await the coming of the Holy Spirit with great anticipation, and a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit!

This mystery that we celebrate for these seven weeks of Eastertide challenges us to believe in the promise of eternal life, where there will be no more tears, no more pain! Throughout this season, we receive new brothers and sisters into our Catholic family, we celebrate first holy communions and confirmations! Every Pentecost, we have an opportunity to affirm our own confirmation.

"The effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost. [We receive] a special strength to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross. [Confirmation] imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark."(CCC 1302-1304)

Not only do we have these bright and glorious celebrations, but we add to that the beauty and purity of Our Lady, the mother of God, during this month of May in which we honor her. And all this is happening as spring burst forth from the bleak winter!

And in this time of pandemic, we see hope of the end of this crisis event!

Take a few moments every day to STOP, to appreciate, to look forward, to revel in the truth that all will be well, all IS well.