We are in the Forty Days of Eastertide, during which we celebrate Christ's Risen Glory and the time He spent visiting with the Apostles and disciples in His Glorified Body. It is a time of consolation and uplifting our hearts in joy and exuberance.
Fr. Robert Eaton, in his 1926 book, The Forty Days: Chapters on the Risen Life of Our Lord, encourages us to look at our lives in the illumination of Easter:
"Look at your work and position in life in His Easter light, for He has made them new -- a very gift from God, a vocation, a field in which much good may be done, from which you may lay up treasure, where no moth corrupts, where no thieves break in and steal.
"Look on your home in His Easter light, for He has made it new; a place of peace and charity, of forbearance and gentleness, where you may find rest, and give glory to God, and promote peace to men of goodwill on earth.
"Look on your sorrows in His Easter light, for He has made them new, no longer a mark of God's displeasure, but a very blessing, to wean you from love of the world, to fix your eyes on Him Whom you have pierced, to raise your heart to the City, where God shall wipe away all tears from your eyes."
Happy Eastertide!
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