Dear Friends,
Our Sisters join
me in wishing you delight and insight as we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus
from now until Pentecost. May you find the Risen One around every corner!
Here is a story,
the origin of which I don’t know. I used it one Easter and launched into my own
thoughts after telling it. On the way out after Mass, one appreciative
parishioner said I could have stopped at the end of the story. I tell it here,
so you can share it with others.
A German seminary
professor of theology was fond of vacationing on the moors of England. On one
such trip, he walked along a path with the mist still thick. The professor came
upon a small group of cherry- cheeked
boys and girls, gazing up into the mist. One child was working the
string of a kite.
“You can’t see
it,” the professor said, announcing the obvious.
“How do you know
it’s there?”
With the
exasperation that children have for clueless adults,
a little voice piped:
“We know because
we feel the pull of it.”
Back
in Germany, refreshed by his holiday, the professor took up the task of shaping
the theological thought of the seminarians in his class. Seminarians, by their
nature, love to challenge their teachers. His class excelled in this way.
On
one particular day, the topic was how to
convey the deep, abiding truths of
Christianity in homilies for the great
feasts.
“Take Easter,”
one earnest student began.
“What do we say?
How do we make people know it’s real?”
Remembering the
children with the kite on the moors, the professor replied:
“We know because
we feel the pull of it.”
Do you feel
the pull of Easter?
~Sister Joan Sobala
