MISSION AND MINISTRY | “To do justice to the mystery of Easter joy with the stale words of human speech is rather difficult. This is not only because every mystery of the Gospel penetrates only with difficulty into the narrow confines of human life – thereby making it harder for our words to grasp and contain and express these mysteries – but because the Easter message is the most human tidings of Christianity.
“That is why we find it difficult to be, to do, and to believe … Easter tells us that God has done something. God has. And this action has not merely gently touched the heart of a person here and there, so that they tremble slightly from an ineffable and nameless someone. God has raised the Son from the dead…. God has done this – he has conquered – not merely in the realm of inwardness, in the realm of thought, but in the realm where we, the glory of the human mind notwithstanding, are most really ourselves: in the actuality of this world, far from all “mere” thoughts and “mere” sentiments.
“God has conquered in the realm where we experience practically what we are in essence: children of the earth, who die.”
Karl Rahner, S.J., “The Eternal Year,” trans. John Shea, S.S. (Baltimore, Maryland: Helicon Press, Inc., 1965), 87-88.
LMU prepares to celebrate the joy of Easter this week! Consider participating in liturgies of the Paschal Triduum and Easter. Read the full Mass schedule here.
