We are a Catholic Christian community rich in a tradition of giving and caring for its Church and its people. Through the course of each year, hundreds of parishioners volunteer their time and talents for the many special events and celebrations within our Parish. In addition, many of our parishioners are active on an ongoing basis in the ministries we see and experience every week as well as in those ministries that are not so outwardly visible.
2 Corinthians 9:6 "Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."
Are caterpillars told of their impending resurrection? How in dying they will be transformed from poor earth-crawlers to creatures of the air, with exquisitely painted wings? If told, do they believe? Is it conceivable to them that so constricted an existence as theirs should burgeon into so gay and lightsome a one as a butterfly's? I imagine the wise old caterpillars shaking their heads - no, it can't be; it's a fantasy, self-deception, a dream. Similarly our wise ones. Yet in the limbo between living and dying, as the night clocks tick remorselessly on, and the black sky implacably shows not one single streak or scratch of gray, I hear those words: I am the resurrection and the life, and feel myself to be carried along on a great tide of joy and peace.
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge Source: Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
