Lord, give me back the joy of Easter!
Last night was the first time I attended Easter Vigil in a small parish. Well, it's not like a parish in a small town, but compared to last year and the previous years when I used to go to Cathedral, last night was a special experience. I was so touched to see the godparents put the baptismal gown on the newly baptized.
Since I came to Singapore, I have not really had an attachment to a particular parish. In university, my home and my family is Legion of Mary. Even when I was involved as an assistant catechist for a while in the parish, my priority was Legion of Mary.
In these three years of working, I've also experienced moving house for three times. Furthermore, my weekend schedule was really unpredictable and I really like to use my Sunday to catch up with my friends, so I go according to which Mass timing can be used to accompany friends to Mass or to meet with friends afterwards.
Anyway, the title of this post is the Joy of Easter.
I am so grateful that this Lent was started with a reflection given by the priest to the pre-teens girls, encouraging them to give up something more to our Lord during Lent. Afterwards, the priest said that I could apply what he said to the girls to my own self. Thus, I was really inspired to seriously give up something and pick up something good during this Lent.
One of my resolutions is to arrive 10 minutes early for daily Mass was such a failure. However, I'm still grateful because perhaps without such resolutions, I would still be late more frequently than ordinary days. God also helped me to be early for daily Mass in unique way, such as I was too late for weekday Mass in the nearest parish, but I was much early to reach another parish and I could do my prayer there before Mass. This only happened for a very few times (out of 40 days of Lent!), but because it happened closer to Holy Week, I was really really encouraged and benefit a lot from those special moments in front of Our Lord.
I've also been thinking about the past Easter that I experienced since I graduated from university. Although Easter is supposed to be a season of Joy, I noticed that I created my own problem and cross for Easter Day. Hahaha. Funny right?
Lord, give me back the Joy of Easter.
Please help me to recover the true joy beyond the first joy that you gave me a few years ago.
Thank you.
Happy Easter!! :)
ps. I'm going to eat my french fries today to celebrate Easter. YEAYYYYYYY!!! =D My spiritual director was a bit amazed that I love fries THAT MUCH. hahaha.
Last night was the first time I attended Easter Vigil in a small parish. Well, it's not like a parish in a small town, but compared to last year and the previous years when I used to go to Cathedral, last night was a special experience. I was so touched to see the godparents put the baptismal gown on the newly baptized.
Since I came to Singapore, I have not really had an attachment to a particular parish. In university, my home and my family is Legion of Mary. Even when I was involved as an assistant catechist for a while in the parish, my priority was Legion of Mary.
In these three years of working, I've also experienced moving house for three times. Furthermore, my weekend schedule was really unpredictable and I really like to use my Sunday to catch up with my friends, so I go according to which Mass timing can be used to accompany friends to Mass or to meet with friends afterwards.
Anyway, the title of this post is the Joy of Easter.
I am so grateful that this Lent was started with a reflection given by the priest to the pre-teens girls, encouraging them to give up something more to our Lord during Lent. Afterwards, the priest said that I could apply what he said to the girls to my own self. Thus, I was really inspired to seriously give up something and pick up something good during this Lent.
One of my resolutions is to arrive 10 minutes early for daily Mass was such a failure. However, I'm still grateful because perhaps without such resolutions, I would still be late more frequently than ordinary days. God also helped me to be early for daily Mass in unique way, such as I was too late for weekday Mass in the nearest parish, but I was much early to reach another parish and I could do my prayer there before Mass. This only happened for a very few times (out of 40 days of Lent!), but because it happened closer to Holy Week, I was really really encouraged and benefit a lot from those special moments in front of Our Lord.
I've also been thinking about the past Easter that I experienced since I graduated from university. Although Easter is supposed to be a season of Joy, I noticed that I created my own problem and cross for Easter Day. Hahaha. Funny right?
Lord, give me back the Joy of Easter.
Please help me to recover the true joy beyond the first joy that you gave me a few years ago.
Thank you.
Happy Easter!! :)
ps. I'm going to eat my french fries today to celebrate Easter. YEAYYYYYYY!!! =D My spiritual director was a bit amazed that I love fries THAT MUCH. hahaha.
