10 #EasterWednesday Things that Caught My Eye Today (March 30, 2016)

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"In this Octave of Easter the liturgy invites us to meet the Risen One personally" ~ BXVI.

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) March 30, 2016

Jesus shows us the real face of God, for whom power does not mean destruction but love, and for whom justice is not vengeance but mercy.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 29, 2016

Have compassion. Have mercy. Welcome the Risen Jesus among us. Reveal Him to other travelers. #homilytweet #Emmaus pic.twitter.com/Qf2JZbQwIL

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) March 30, 2016

4. Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.

5. Our Easter Heart Transplant from Slow to Burning Hearts

Easter Wed Gospel illustrated: the Supper at Emmaus from a stained glass window in Providence College (RI)https://t.co/076HHvkgg4

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) March 30, 2016

7. Fr. Steve Grunow:

Christ is alive, not dead, and our encounter with him may not be to see him now in the body of his Incarnation, but he gives himself to us in the Blessed Sacrament. The Blessed Sacrament is not merely a custom or a symbol, but it is an encounter with the Lord Jesus himself, who makes himself as really and truly present to us as he did to those who were privileged to be witnesses to his resurrection.

8. In the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours today, from an Easter homily by an ancient author:

Saint Paul rejoices in the knowledge that spiritual health has been restored to the human race. Death entered the world through Adam, he explains, but life has been given back to the world through Christ. Again he says: The first man, being from the earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven and is heavenly. As we have borne the image of the earthly man, the image of human nature grown old in sin, so let us bear the image of the heavenly man: human nature raised up, redeemed, restored and purified in Christ. We must hold fast to the salvation we have received. Christ was the first fruits, says the Apostle; he is the source of resurrection and life. Those who belong to Christ will follow him. Modeling their lives on his purity, they will be secure in the hope of his resurrection and of enjoying with him the glory promised in heaven. Our Lord himself said so in the gospel: Whoever follows me will not perish, but will pass from death to life.
Thus the passion of our Savior is the salvation of mankind. The reason why he desired to die for us was that he wanted us who believe in him to live for ever. In the fullness of time it was his will to become what we are, so that we might inherit the eternity he promised and live with him for ever.
Here, then, is the grace conferred by these heavenly mysteries, the gift which Easter brings, the most longed for feast of the year; here are the beginnings of creatures newly formed: children born from the life-giving font of holy Church, born anew with the simplicity of little ones, and crying out with the evidence of a clean conscience. Chaste fathers and inviolate mothers accompany this new family, countless in number, born to new life through faith. As they emerge from the grace-giving womb of the font, a blaze of candles burns brightly beneath the tree of faith. The Easter festival brings the grace of holiness from heaven to men. Through the repeated celebration of the sacred mysteries they receive the spiritual nourishment of the sacraments. Fostered at the very heart of holy Church, the fellowship of one community worships the one God, adoring the triple name of his essential holiness, and together with the prophet sings the psalm which belongs to this yearly festival: This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. And what is this day? It is the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the author of light, who brings the sunrise and the beginning of life, saying of himself: I am the light of day; whoever walks in daylight does not stumble. That is to say, whoever follows Christ in all things will come by this path to the throne of eternal light.
Such was the prayer Christ made to the Father while he was still on earth: Father, I desire that where I am they also may be, those who have come to believe in me; and that as you are in me and I in you, so they may abide in us.

9. Entering through the Divine Floodgates of Mercy

10.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Jesus Christ. #PopeFrancis

— Bishop Barres (@BishopBarres) March 30, 2016

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