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The Fifty days
Posted April 20, 2007 , By Joshua LeBlanc
We are now (and have been) in this wonderful Easter season! The Church gives us this great season of Grace to ponder the great mystery of the Resurrection. It was Pope John Paul II who said that we are an "Easter People" because the faith that we believe collapses and has no bearing if Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead. It is the dying, death, and rising of Christ that brings about our redemption and ultimately our salvation.
Too often we as Catholics take the faith that has been handed onto us for granted, especially those of us who are cradle catholics. In my opinion, converts are often much more aware of the great gift and mystery that is before them because they have lived without it. As is typical with our fallen human nature, we being to take things for granted whenever we get involved in a routine. This is true of our spouse, job, family — even our faith.
The Lenten season was a time to prepare for the season we are in now. We spent our days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving preparing for the coming of the feast of Easter and it seems that we all too soon forget that Easter is fifty days of rejoicing and is indeed a time of anticipation, the anticipation of Pentecost! I pray that we do not too soon forget the great gift that Christ has given us - the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!
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