Happy, Blessed & Joyful Easter

0:06Happy Easter from Divine Mercy University. My name is father Charles Sikorsky, and I'm the president here. And I'd like to wish you, your loved ones, your family, a happy and blessed joyful Easter season. You know, Easter, Christ triumph over death, his resurrection from the dead, I think it helped us in really two important ways. First, it's a reminder that Good Friday is not the last word, that the difficulties of our lives, the crosses of our lives, even death itself, even our sin aren't the final word. Easter Sunday is. Christ overcomes that through his resurrection. It's his victory is our victory, and we can share in that. And it's a great reason for us to be joyful and to allow this season of Easter to really fill our hearts with something that seems too good to be true.

0:55Right? That God in his goodness and his mercy and his love opens a way for us to overcome those things that are most difficult for us, in life even up to death. And then the second thing it reminds us of is the totality of reality. Right? There are invisible realities that are out there. So much of the modern world and modern, men and women, we always fall into thinking about the tangible as being like the end of existence. We have to be, worried about our daily concerns and they're important. However, they're not the only reality out there. There's an eternal reality that we're made for and that, our lord invites us to. Christ's resurrection reminds us of it. That the things of this world, the things that seem ordinary, in this ordinary natural world aren't the end of things.

1:44That there is an invisible world and invisible reality there that leads us to God, that leads us to an eternal destiny, an eternal life of happiness and joy with him. And so my prayer for you, your families, and your loved ones is that you experience in a deep way, the joy, the victory, the love of Christ that we celebrate here on Eastern. Would that be, a grace and a stimulus for you to follow Christ, to stay with Christ, to persevere in faith, so that you too, that we'll all be one day with Christ united with he and the entire church and our families and loved ones in that eternal invisible kingdom that's to come. So thank you very much, and, be assured in my prayers. And let's also remember all those who are struggling with mental health, difficulties during this time.

2:33That's why we're here at Divine Mercy University to provide answers for people who are struggling, in their mental health and different complicated situations they find themselves in. So let's not forget them as well during this joyful season that they too experience hope, that they experience healing, they experience most of all our lord's love and mercy. Thank you all and God bless you.