Our Resurrection - His Love Would Have It No Other Way!

The Power of The Resurrection         

            “His Love is the foundation of our eternity. One whom God loves never passes away. It is not just a shadow of ourselves that lives on in Him, in His thought, and in His Love; rather, it is in Him, in His creative Love, that we are preserved forever immortal in the totality and truth of our being. It is His Love that makes us immortal, and this immortality, this abiding Love, is what we call “Heaven”’.

- Pope Benedict XVI

            In Jesus life does not end and death does not end it. In our holy communion with Christ life is changed, not taken away, and death becomes the door, the conduit, the portal to Eternal Life in God. Death is a gateway through which one leaves the womb of time and enters a world beyond our own. At death the person in Jesus is born again, born anew, and enters into the fullness of His Life.

             

            No, death does not end life. It is simply that all-important point of transition which initiates and ushers in the fullness of intercourse with God – a oneness with God which participates in that of Jesus with the Father, and parallels the oneness of the Father with the Spirit of His Son; a oneness with the Lord that transforms us, transfigures us, fulfills us, and makes us complete, whole, even Holy.

             

            Granted there is at death an end of our earthly life, but only because it is the end of our engagement with God and the beginning of our marriage to the "Lamb of God". Yes there is at death an end of earthly life, but only because in Christ it is the moment where the totality of Life begins, the moment where one enters into the fullness of Divine Union, where the marriage to the Bridegroom is consummated, where a sacred communion commences that consecrates us and perfects us, a holy communion that satisfies the deepest yearnings of human heart for the fullness of its dignity as a child of God. It is a sacred communion therefore that gives Joy to the Father, a communion that fills us with His Joy and completes our own. Truly then, in that place just beyond the point of death, we realize in the totality of the God’s loving embrace that we have reached the Day of the Lord, the Day which brought Him to the Cross, the Day for which He has paid the price and for which He yearns with all the Love of His Sacred Heart, that Day when “…you will be with Me in Paradise.”