On Easter Sunday we celebrate the solemn feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I wish you all a happy Easter. The season of Lent is given to us to reflect on the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through spiritual activities. During the season of Lent we have fasted, done penance, made pilgrimage to other churches, and prayed the Stations of the Cross to encounter Jesus’ passion and death. We do charitable things and spend more time in prayer.
Thirteen years ago this week, on Saturday, April 2, 2005, St. John Paul II passed away in his apartment above St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. To say he was a humble servant is true, but to say that he shared in the history of Poland, Europe and the world through his holy orders and papacy is to understate his role in enabling freedom for men of goodwill.