Jesus calls to us as He called to Lazarus in his tomb: “Come forth!” This call is addressed to every human person because we are all marked by death. Christ is not resigned to the sepulchers that we have constructed with our choices of evil and death, with our mistakes, our sins. [Jesus] invites us, almost orders us, to come out of the tombs into which our sins have plunged us. This is where our resurrection begins: when we decide to obey the command of Jesus to come into the light, to life; when the masks fall from our faces … and we rediscover the courage of our original faces, created in the image and likeness of God.
[ … The raising of Lazarus shows us that] there is no limit to the divine mercy, which is offered to everyone. … The Lord is always ready to roll away the tombstone of our sins, which separate us from Him, the light of the living.]
Pope Francis, Angeles,
April 6,2014
May we, the disciples of the Lord, proclaim His divine mercy, as we minister to those seekers whom He has placed on our path.
In His peace,
Sara and Katie
