Easter Wednesday

And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" ~Luke 24:25-26

To believe means first to accept as true what our mind cannot fully comprehend.  We have to accept what God reveals to us about himself, about ourselves, about everything around us, including things that are invisible, inexpressible and beyond our imagination.  This act of accepting revealed truth broadens the horizon of our knowledge and draws us to the mystery in which our lives are immersed.  Letting our reason be limited in this way is not something easy to do.  Here we see the second aspect of faith:  it is trust in a person, no ordinary person, but Jesus Christ himself.  What we believe is important, but even more important is the One in whom we believe.

~Pope Benedict XVI

O my Jesus, risen now in glory, I beg You,

grant me resurrection faith to trust in You.

Amen!  Alleluia!