The call still echoes:
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.
Repent and be baptized.”
Our relationship with Jesus
begins at the font.
At the Easter Vigil—
in every diocese,
in every country—
men and women step forward,
not on impulse,
but after months of prayer,
discernment,
and longing.
There, in the waters of baptism,
they begin a personal relationship
with the living Christ.
They are baptized,
confirmed,
and then fed—
for the very first time—
with the Holy Eucharist.
And in that moment,
they understand something
we sometimes forget:
this relationship is real.
It is tasted.
It is touched.
It is received.
Jesus never said the Eucharist
was poetry or symbol.
He said that without it
there is no life in us.
His Body and Blood—
the Blessed Sacrament—
is the source of divine life.
Yet even with all this grace,
we still find ourselves
standing beside Mary Magdalene,
weeping.
Because love does that.
Because when we cannot see Him,
our hearts ache.
“Woman, why are you weeping?”
She answers for all of us:
“They have taken my Lord,
and I don’t know where they laid him.”
But the One we love
is not gone.
He is alive.
And He stands before us now—
in the Eucharist—
drawing us back
into the relationship
that began in baptism
and leads us to resurrection joy.
Prayer
Lord Jesus,You stand before us, radiant with life.
Draw us deeper into Your Body and Blood.
Let our hearts ache with love that sees You.
Speak our name and call us back to life.
Hold us in the light of Your mercy.
Keep us faithful to the grace that first claimed us.
Amen.
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