PROCLAMATION OF THE RESURRECTION

THIS MONTH  we are invited to join Pope Benedict’s prayer intention . . .

‘That Christians may not tire of proclaiming with their lives that Christ’s resurrection is the source of hope and peace’.

Straight after Jesus’s death, his closest friends, convinced that he had left them forever, turned back to their old lives in confusion and helplessness.

Then strange reports began to emerge.  Some claimed they had seen the risen Jesus while fishing, some had met him out on the road, others had seen him whilst gathered together in a locked room.

GRADUALLY the conviction that Jesus was alive enthused the early disciples to such an extent that they couldn’t wait to spread the important news far and wide.  Suddenly the disciples were filled with energy, courage, vision and hope.  This is what belief in the resurrection has to mean for us too.

Join with me now in praying together Pope Benedict’s prayer intention  . . . . . ‘That Christians may not tire of proclaiming with their lives that Christ’s resurrection is the source of hope and peace’.