Photo by Amy Gilmor - St. Mary Magdalene Church in Drogheda, Ireland
We certainly rejoice during this beautiful week of Eastertide, and rightly so. We also journey through periods of darkness in this life and must hold on until we see the light again. We persevere through suffering and find our joy.
Someday, we will see the Light eternally, never to be extinguished.
"Like St. Mary Magdalene, we must first find Our Lord on Calvary, there 'to know Jesus Christ and Him crucified.' We must learn to pray in the darkness of difficulty and discouragement, with never a word of reply, with failure meeting us at every turn... Such is our work and privilege, as it was for St. Mary Magdalene, the glory of Easter ever helping us to persevere in work for God that must needs be carried out beneath the shadow of the Cross."
~ Fr. Robert Eaton, "The Forty Days: Chapters on the Risen Life of Our Lord" imprimatur 1926.
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