Letter to my
children - Easter Time
Dear children:
There are moments and times in our lives when we are called to listen to
important things that we can easily forget.
First of all we must remember with joy the fact that we have been baptized in
the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Something that sounds
very simple and yet, it represents something great in our lives. We are not
children of an earthly father and a mother, we are children of God Almighty, who
has open the gates of Heaven through His Son Jesus.
In Baptism we were washed of our original sin which comes from our first parents
Adam and Eve, we have been restored to the order of Grace and we have been
clothed with the light of Christ our Savior.
By the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ the Son of God became incarnate of
the Blessed Virgin Mary and was made flesh in her womb. Being God, He descended
to our imperfect state and came to teach us the way to the Eternal Father. He
did it through his sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins and
for our redemption.
Easter Time lasts forty days and begins with Ash Wednesday, a day in which we
acknowledge our sinfulness, we repent and express our desire to come back to the
way that takes us to eternal life. These are forty days of reflection,
meditation and resolution to amend our lives to obtain our salvation.
Easter is not an invention of men. Jesus himself was in the desert for forty
days, fasting and being exposed to the temptations of the devil. The Church
exhorts us to do this spiritual exercise of penance, prayer, fasting and
reflection in a desire to save us from the current of the world that is taking
us into the abyss of perdition.
And what is the summit of Easter? After forty days of meditation on these great
mysteries that unite our temporal lives with eternal life, we come to Good
Friday, a solemn day in which we revive the passion and death of Jesus Christ
Our Savior, a day in which we must be purified with the actions of those forty
days of penance, reflection and prayer so that we may celebrate with Christ the
great mystery of our Eternal Life with God.
Good Friday is a day of thanksgiving, because when we celebrate the Holy
Eucharist we are offering our thanksgiving to the Eternal Father for the gift of
Salvation. Jesus Christ has saved us from sin, from the devil and from death.
I ‘m calling you so that you don’t sleep spiritually giving power to the enemy
of our souls. I call you urgently so that you awaken from the routine of your
lives, and pause.
I am your father and I could not cheat you. What I am telling you is for your
own salvation, something that is not in my hands because is something very
personal. But with all my responsibility I ask you to go to confession, stay
away from bad habits, don’t have any resentments in your hearts, forgive and
forget in the same way that Jesus has taught us. And live not as my children,
but as children of the Most High.
Celebrate this Holy Week with a true spirit of humility, acknowledging that we
are sinners, that our sin caused the coming of the Son of God, Our Lord Jesus
Christ, who in His Merciful Love decided to save us surrendering his life with
the unequal martyrdom of his passion and his painful death.
Here on Earth, we are grateful when someone does something for us. This debt
that we have with Jesus Christ is something that we can only pay by listening to
His Word and living in accordance to the Will of God.
It is never late to change, so let us begin a new life in Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Joseph of Jesus and Mary
The Work of God Apostolate
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