Mon Apr 17, 2023 – 5:30 am EDTSun Apr 16, 2023 – 5:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– ℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia. ℟. Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia.
The first week has been devoted to the joyous celebration of our Emmanuel’s return to us. He has been visiting us each day, in order to make us sure of His resurrection. He has said to us: “See me! Touch me! Feel! it is indeed I!” (Luke 24:39)
But we know that His visible presence among us is not to last beyond forty days. This happy period is rapidly advancing; the time seems to go so quickly! In a few weeks, He, for whom the whole earth has been in such expectation, will have disappeared from our sight. “O Expectation and Savior of Israel! why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way-faring man turning in to lodge? Why wilt thou be as a wanderer?” (Jeremiah 14:8-9)
So much the more precious are the hours, then! Let us keep close by His side; when we cannot hear His words, let us fix our eyes upon Him; but when He does speak, let
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