Easter Sunday

April 4, 2010

The Resurrection of the Lord
Reflection by Pope Benedict XVI

What is Resurrection?...
First of all, there is light...
Where there is light, life is born,
chaos is transformed into cosmos...
the resurrection of Jesus is an eruption of light...
With the resurrection,
the Lord's day enters the nights of history...
This Light alone~Jesus Christ~ is the true light,
something more than the physical phenomenon of light.
He is pure Light:
God, Himself, who causes a new creation to be born
in the midst of the old transforming chaos into cosmos...
Let us pray to the Lord
that the fragile flame of the candle He has lit in us,
the delicate light of His word
and His love amid the confusions of this age,
will not be extinguished in us,
but will become ever stronger and brighter,
so that we, with Him,
can be people of the day,
bright stars lighting up our time.

On September 24, 1955 Pietro and Gianna Beretta Molla married.
For the past 48 years, Pietro has lived without Saint Gianna, who died
April 28, 1962 after giving birth to their fourth child.
Today, April 3, Holy Saturday, 2010, Pietro passed away at 1:30 a.m.
Both passed away during the Octave of Easter.
May he be re-united with his bride, once again, in eternity.

The article of the passing of Pietro is beautifully written
and a link that I have posted below.
The cause for beatification and canonization
has already opened for Saint Gianna's brother
and it is rumored that one will soon open for Pietro.
This is a paragraph from the that article,
written by a close friend of the Molla family,
Father Rosica:

Father Thomas Rosica writes,
"Laura Molla shared with me this morning by phone
that the Molla family is somehow linked to the mystery of Holy Saturday.
It was on Holy Saturday 1962
that Gianna Beretta Molla gave birth to her daughter, Gianna Emanuela.
One week later, on Easter Saturday,
St. Gianna died from the serious medical condition
that resulted from bringing her child to term.
St. Gianna gave her life so that the child in her womb would live.
And now Pietro returns to the house of the Father
on Holy Saturday morning 2010.
Pietro shared with me one day
what he wrote in his diary on March 7, 1955:
' 'The more I know Gianna,
the more I am convinced that God could not have given me
a greater gift than her love and companionship'.
St. Gianna and her husband are now reunited in heaven
and celebrate the mystery of Christ’s dying and rising
in the company of the Lord and his saints.
I can only imagine the scene in heaven on Holy Saturday morning
as this wonderful couple was reunited after forty-eight years of being apart.
They would embrace their daughter Mariolina,
who died as a child,
and be welcomed by the Venerable Pope John Paul II
who enrolled Gianna in the book of the Saints.
May St. Gianna, Pietro and Mariolina
intercede for us now from heaven,
and watch over all married couples and families on earth".

http://catinfor.com/en/2010/04/03/a-holy-couple-reunited-in-heaven-%E2%80%94-death-of-mr-pietro-molla-husband-of-st-gianna-beretta-molla-on-holy-saturday-morning-in-mesero-milano-italy/

Saint Gianna, Pray for us!

April 2nd, 2010 Good Friday

Jefferson Monument looking out over the White House to the left of the Washington Monument

Tidal Basin View of the Jefferson Monument

through the Cherry Blossoms

Tidal Basin with 2000 Cherry Blossom Trees in the area

United, We Stand!

WW II Memorial 'Mall'
April 2, 2010 Good Friday

Sunrise Good Friday, April 2, 2010
Washington Memorial

We arose at 5 am to make it to the D.C. area this Good Friday. We found ourselves standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, looking out over the Washington Monument as the sun was rising. So very peaceful and serene, I found this quote of Abraham Lincoln and found it fitting to post as though he were looking directly at the sunrise in context.

"With Malice toward none,
with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds".
Abraham Lincoln