Vaynese

Dear Friends, In my appreciation for all of you, you've been enrolled in the Seraphic Mass Association, whose Missionary Priests will be praying for you. God bless you all with a joyous Easter! 🙏 - SQ

@GloryBeeGod4evr In the hush of the dawn, the tomb stands empty and hope rises with the morning light. May the Risen Christ fill your heart with a song of joy that never fades, a peace that gently remains and a love that leads you ever closer to Him. Blessed and grace filled Easter to you ❤️

@VaticanNews May the joy of the Risen Christ fill your heart with peace, may His light guide your path and may the empty tomb always remind you that hope is never really lost. Wishing you all a blessed and grace filled Easter, alive with faith, love and the promise of new life in Christ ❤️

Gospel of the Day (John 20,1-9) On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him." So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead. vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the…

@VaticanNews Risen Lord Jesus, in the quiet of the empty tomb, You revealed the victory of life over death. Grant us too the grace to see and believe, even when we do not yet fully understand. Strengthen our faith, Lord, that we may live as witnesses to the hope and new life You bring. Amen.

@GloryBeeGod4evr Thank you so much ❤️

@Vaynese ❤️ Thank you so much, Vaynese! May God grant you all these graces as well! 🙏

See the Cross as a supporting staff that greatly lightens and eases the journey. - St. John of the Cross

@GloryBeeGod4evr I don't really deserve much credit for being less online though, it's not intentional or voluntarily 😬❤️

@Vaynese That's actually good that you're not spending a lot of your time online. That's something I need to work on. I appreciate your friendship as well!❤️

@VaticanNews Let's not flee the silence or despair at the stone. Instead let's hold vigil with quiet faith, trusting in what He has promised, because no stone can keep Life Himself contained.

@VaticanNews Christ isn't defeated, He's descending into the depths to conquer death itself. So may we remember in our own lives: what appears closed, finished or 'lifeless' may be the very place where grace is preparing something unimaginable. Let's remain with Him in this stillness.

Gospel of the Day (Matthew 27, 60-66) And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the…

@JefferyFasching These words say everything. I always become a bit sad when people say the Eucharist is just a symbol...

Take ye, and eat: this is My Body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of Me (1 Cor 11:24).

@GloryBeeGod4evr hope, endless love and complete trust ❤️

@GloryBeeGod4evr God bless you abundantly, may He fill your heart with peace, your soul with His grace and your days with quiet joy... And may your Good Friday be deeply blessed too! May you remain close to Our Lord at the foot of the Cross and find in His sacrifice a renewed sense of infinite

@JefferyFasching Lord Jesus crucified, I ask for Your mercy for my many sins, my weaknesses, my blindness, my fears and my lack of trust. Please look upon me in my poverty, heal me, forgive me and save me. Amen.

Lord Jesus crucified, have mercy on us…

@GloryBeeGod4evr and redemption and in that same way, our crosses too can fill our suffering with meaning and grace. We just have to hold on, keep the faith, believe and endure.

@GloryBeeGod4evr I've always seen this quote as a beautiful (but not always easy) invitation to change how we see suffering. The Cross is very heavy and very painful, but that doesn't mean it's a pointless burden seeking to crush or destroy. It's the very path by which Christ accomplishes love