Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Faced with our fragile humanity, the Easter proclamation becomes care and healing; it nourishes hope in the face of the daunting challenges that life presents us each day, both personally and globally. In the lead-up to Easter, the Via Crucis—the Way of the Cross—is transformed into the Way of Light—the Via Lucis. We need to savor and meditate on joy after suffering, to relive in a new light all the stages that preceded the Resurrection.

Easter does not eliminate the cross, but triumphs over it in the prodigious duel that changed human history. Our era, too, marked by so many crosses, invokes the dawn of Easter hope. The Resurrection of Christ is not an idea, a theory, but the Event that is the foundation of faith. He, the Risen One, through the Holy Spirit, continues to remind us of this, so that we may be his witnesses even where human history sees no light on the horizon. Easter hope does not disappoint. To truly believe in Easter through our daily journey means revolutionizing our lives, being transformed in order to transform the world with the gentle and courageous strength of Christian hope.