Newsletter Easter Sunday (Year A) 5th April, 2026

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GOSPEL REFLECTION …  When Our Lord died, the disciples of Jesus were devastated and traumatised. They had put all their hopes in Jesus, that He would be the One who would save them from the Romans & restore God’s Kingdom as it was before the Fall. Instead, it appears that evil had won, but nothing could be further from the truth. God is always completely in control! In the early hours of Sunday morning something happened which was greater than any imagination or dream could have been, something which blew everyone’s mind. Our Lord rose from the dead! That act seemed too good to be true. The disciples may have thought, not even God could be that good. Therefore, when St Magdalene told the apostles that the tomb was empty, only two of the eleven apostles could believe that He had risen. Thomas could not believe: “Unless I can touch the wounds in His hands & side, I refuse to believe.” The rest is history. Our Lord appears to Thomas & asks him to touch His wounds. The realisation that Jesus has risen from the dead causes St Thomas to worship Jesus by saying, “My Lord & my God.” St Thomas is so converted & is so on fire to tell everyone about Jesus, that he preaches to everyone as far as he can walk, to the west coast of India. St Peter also had a conversion experience because Jesus had risen from the dead. St Peter, who denied Our Lord because he didn’t want to be crucified with Him, now had no fear of crucifixion. For preaching the Gospel, he chose to be crucified upside down. Today, because of violence around the world & the collapse of society, again it appears that evil has won, but nothing could be further from the truth. God is completely in control! No matter how bad life can get, no matter how tall or wide the Cross, God always has the master plan. Two thousand years ago God blew everyone’s mind away rising from the dead. Today, He wants to do a miracle which is much greater. He wants to rise from the dead in each one of us. He wants us to be like Our Blessed Mother, full of the Holy Spirit or full of God. Our Lord wants to live in each of us. St John Paul II described this time in history as a time of a “new & divine holiness.” The times in which we live are no longer only of a human holiness, no longer a holiness which the saints of the past enjoyed, but a divine holiness, which is the holiness of God Himself. There is no limit to what God wants to achieve in us. Venerable Conchita, a mother of nine children from Mexico, experienced what can be called ‘Mystical Incarnation.’ Our Lord said to Conchita: “I want to incarnate Myself mystically in your heart.” Conchita asked Our Lord, “would that be Spiritual Marriage?” Our Lord answered: “Much more than that. It is the grace of incarnating Me, of the living & growing in your soul, never to leave it, to possess you & be possessed by you as one & the same substance … it is the grace of graces. It is the union of Heaven …” Bl Dina Belanger, a French-Canadian nun who died in 1929, was able to say: “We are no longer two, Jesus & I, we are One, Jesus alone.” (The state of heaven) God’s plan for us is beyond all limits. God’s plan is that we become another risen Christ!