A blessed Easter!
For real, no joking around, I hope and pray that you and your loved ones have a joyful and happy Easter!
I don’t think I will be making my usual Gateau Paris-Brest this year; I have something else I’m going to try that is too similar to have both. I will try to keep you posted on that.
I still have lots of cleaning and cooking to do, and then the Vigil! Mwah!
bits & piecesI have only one link for you, a very old-school sermon on an old-school site: Sermon 23 of St. John Henry Newman: Keeping Fast and Festival, preached on Easter Day.
On such a day, then, from the very intensity of joy which Christians ought to feel, and the trial which they have gone through, they will often be disposed to say little. Rather, like sick people convalescent, when the crisis is past, the illness over, but strength not yet come, they will go forth to the light of day and the freshness of the air, and silently sit down with great delight under the shadow of that Tree, whose fruit is sweet to their taste. They are disposed rather to muse and be at peace, than to use many words; for their joy has been so much the child of sorrow, is of so transmuted and complex a nature, so bound up with painful memories and sad associations, that though it is a joy only the greater from the contrast, it is not, cannot be, as if it had never been sorrow.
My (hardback, with a ribbon) copy of Newman’s sermons is well thumbed; it has stood me in good stead for 24 years now! At first, you may find Newman to be hard going, but read slowly and you will be well rewarded, spiritually.
I find that this sermon (not the only one he preached on this subject, of course) speaks to my state in these days — the sense of being battered and confused, of having undergone a purgation not of my choosing, and of being uncertain where the path lies.
As always, Newman keeps the heavenly realities well in view, unsentimentally and without denying earthly sorrow.
I hope it helps you if you are in the same frame of mind and spirit.
With love to you! Happy Easter, when we will proclaim: Christ is Risen!
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