A Reflection for Easter
Easter is the feast of hope. This is the feast that says God will have the last word and that God’s final judgment is resurrection. God will turn all that we maim and destroy and hurt and punish into life and beauty. What the resurrection reveals more than anything else is that love is stronger than death. Jesus walks the way of death with love and what it becomes is not death but life! It doesn’t fit any logical explanation. Yet this is the mystery: that nothing dies forever, and all that has died will be reborn in love. So, to be a Christian is to be inevitably and forever a person of hope.
-Richard Rohr
Una reflexión para Pascua
La Pascua es la fiesta de la esperanza. Es la fiesta que dice que Dios tendrá la última palabra y que el juicio final de Dios es la resurrección. Dios convertirá todo lo que mutilamos, destruimos, herimos y castigamos en vida y belleza. Lo que la resurrección revela más que cualquier otra cosa es que el amor es más fuerte que muerte. Jesús recorre el camino de la muerte con amor y lo que obtiene no es la muerte, sino la vida. No cabe en ninguna explicación lógica. Sin embargo, este es el misterio: que nada muere para siempre y que todo lo que ha muerto renacerá en el amor. Por lo tanto, ser cristiano es ser inevitable y eternamente una persona de esperanza.
-Richard Rohr
Sister M. Cecilia spent twenty -five years of her life at Sacred Heart Convent in St. Lawrence. A capable and dynamic woman, she served as superior of the community for many of those years. She was a competent and enterprising administrator and an accomplished musician, and much of her time was spent preparing the children to participate in plays, operettas and concerts. These events often served as fundraisers for the purchase of new equipment for the school or the church. Sister M. Cecilia was one of the many Sisters of Mercy who instilled and developed the strong musical tradition that still exists in St. Lawrence.
Present to celebrate with Eileen were a number of Sisters, representatives of Administration and Pastoral Care, as well as several volunteers. Joyce Penney, Director of Volunteer Services welcomed the group and lauded Sister Eileen’s ministry to third-floor residents of St. Patrick’s, noting her quiet, steady, compassionate presence to each one.