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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Alleluia! Christ Is Risen!

Alleluia!

Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; *

therefore let us keep the feast,

Not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, *

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alleluia!

Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; *

death no longer has dominion over him.

The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; *

but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So also consider yourselves dead to sin, *

and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia!

Christ has been raised from the dead, *

the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For since by a man came death, *

by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, *

so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Alleluia!

Holy Saturday: Liminal Space - The In-Between Time

"Remember, hope is not some vague belief that 'all will work out well,' but biblical hope is the certainty that things finally have a victorious meaning no matter how they turn out. We learned that from Jesus, which gives us now the courage to live our lives forward from here. Maybe that is the full purpose of Lent..."

(From Fr. Richard Rohr, Wondrous Encounters: Scriputure for Lent, St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2011, p. 143)

Nishat Linen Summer Collection For mens 2012-2013

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Nishat Linen Summer Collection For mens 2012-2013

Nishat Linen Summer Collection For mens 2012-2013

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Nishat Linen Summer Collection For mens 2012-2013

Friday, April 6, 2012

"Behold the Wood of the Cross, On Which Hung the World's Salvation"

"...Before his Cross 'I' kneel. Do you kneel there, solitary, ineffable ego that does not even know itself, that is a wavering spark between the abyss of nothingness and the abyss of eternity? If I do not know myself and my origin, if my destiny is hidden from me, if I stand in fear before myself and before the chasms of my heart -- where should I stay, if not before the Cross, in which the incomprehensibility of man's destiny becomes the revelation that God is truly love. I kneel before him. And I am silent. For what shall I tell him, except what I am? And if I have never understood myself, what else can I do except surrender myself to him completely, to him whose love, loyal even to death, alone has understood me? And if this ego silently loves and lovingly commits itself, then it perceives that it finds its true essence and its genuine likeness precisely in the Crucified...

Do I kneel thus below the Cross for the three hours of my life, until everything is also fulfilled in me and through me? Am I one with the Crucified? My souls thirsts for God my Savior. I want to rise up and I want to see him who has drunk the most bitter cup of this world. The most bitter, for in comparison what is the little bitterness that we feel, we who are sinners and so indifferent to it all? I want to kiss his bloody feet, the feet that pursued me even into the most monstrous inextricability of my sins. I want to see the pierced side of him who has locked me in his heart and who therefore took me with him when he went home, passing over from this world through death to the Father, so that I, too, am now there where only God can be. I want to see the wood of the Cross, on which the salvation of the world, my salvation, hung. Come let us adore him."

(From The Eternal Year, by Karl Rahner, S.J., [Helicon], 1964, pp. 84 & 86)

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Gul Ahmed Summer Collection | Mens Salwar Kameez 2012

Gul ahmed New Summer Collection for mens and women are launched. All Gul Ahmed Salwar kameez have new collar style and stuff.
Gul Ahmed Summer Collection 2012-2013

Gul Ahmed Summer Collection 2012-2013

Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday - Letting Go

From The Daybook: A Contemplative Journal:

“Spring is never easy. She can’t seem to make up her mind, one day balmy and the next drizzly, one day anxious for summer’s fields...She lives by fits and starts, delays, and pronounced mood swings...

The only way to live spring is to let her be, to allow her to pass through us. When we are young a certain degree of flexing ourselves against life is proper. How else can we learn our own strength? But resistance is unbecoming in the mature. Rage against the coming of the night only leaves us empty and spent! Little is ever wrenched from life by force. When we give up battling, we find what we are looking for....What we really want can only be ours when we stop grasping for it. If we stop the struggle, what we want comes one day almost uninvited...We pound away on the anvil of our thoughts in hopes of an answer, but it is not until we let go the struggle that the answer comes...

Ultimately spring teaches us that to fight against what is is foolishness. When the cherry blossom falls and you suddenly realize that you only have so many days to be with the one you love, fall with the petal. Love is in the falling, not the staying. The life we desperately want comes to us when we cease clutching it...We can only have each other as we let each other go...”

Jesus let go. He “fell with the petal”. This is what the Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday is all about. “...He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death -- even death on a cross. Therefore, God [also] highly exalted him...” “The life we desperately want comes to us when we cease clutching it.”

The humbling of Jesus doesn’t refer as much to his Incarnation as to his voluntarily serving others, to the point of death, without any assurance that what he did would be vindicated or justified, or even acknowledged. Jesus bids us to live our version of abasement and exaltation, of “letting go to keep”. You and I are called to honor one another by becoming as a servant, obedient even to the point of inconvenience, mistrust, or, perhaps, humiliation.

Without accepting and embracing this, we may celebrate the mystery of Jesus’ death and resurrection this week, but we’ll never understand it. Julian of Norwich remind us: “God gives joy freely as it pleases him, and sometimes he allows us to be in sorrow, and both come from his love.” In one of her other showings or visions Jesus says to Julian: “Since I have set right the greatest of harms, it is my will that I shall set right everything which is less.”

In our lives the joy of Easter resurrection lies ahead of us and it is unquestionably real. But there must first be the dying, the humbling, the letting-go: even as it was for Jesus. There must be, as Blessed Julian says, “the Passion of our Lord as comfort to us against the purging pain caused by our sins...He comforts readily and sweetly with his words, and says: ‘But all shall be well, and every kind of thing shall be well...”