Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - April 18, 2024
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
It has dawned on readers, I hope, in the course of these reflections, that the writer believes the resurrection should have a huge impact on our life and attitude. Yet, it would be too simple to believe that the resurrection quickly erases our own Good Fridays. It should be one of those obvious truths that we can't run ahead to Easter without having walked through Good Friday.
If Easter faith is too easy it might be false, superficial. Inexperience or extremely odd circumstances might have shielded one or the other of us from Good Friday, from some suffering or pain. But Easter and the hope it brings only come to full significance after that Friday.
Even when we are able to come to Easter after a particularly deep wound, our joy in Easter may still have a bit of a melancholic edge. To suggest that faith in the resurrection blots out all sorrow, pain, and difficulty, would certainly be to suggest a too-easy answer. Jesus only came to the resurrection through the suffering of Good Friday; it certainly can't be otherwise for us. Easter does not come too easily. But it does follow Good Friday. We have felt some of that joy in free association with friends once again after the virus.
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
