Easter

Back home, we usually go to sunrise Mass at the cemetery on Easter.

It's strange, how usually cemeteries are places that I think of as creepy or depressing.

I mean, we're standing on top of hundreds upon hundreds of dead bodies.

But on Easter, the Catholic cemetery in Memphis is a place of hope and joyful singing. People tell funny stories about dead relatives, and everybody's smiling in the middle of a place inhabited by the dead.

Because on Easter, we realize that we have nothing to fear in death.

We realize that death is just a stepping stone to eternity.

Christ has risen, and he is preparing a place for us in heaven.

So death has no hold over us, and there is no reason for us to be sad at the thought of it.

So we stand in the middle of the cemetery, surrounded by our loved ones who have gone ahead of us, and we face the rising son sun, and we sing praise to the Lord who has conquered death.

Happy Easter!

I'm praying for you!

:)