The Easter Call: Open up your heart

Tuesday within the Easter Octave: 3rd April, 2018

Acts 2: 36-41; Jn 20: 11-18

'What are we to do?' ask the people cut to their heart! That is the first sign of a transformed people: being cut to the heart and wanting to do something about it. I remember a gathering of teachers that I addressed in the beginning of an academic year. There were over 200 of them and at the end of the meeting one teacher walked up to me and said: 'Fr. I want to do something... I just can't continue the way I am. Tell me now, what should I do?' And I gave him a suggestion, and now he is part of an Evangelisation Team, that was connected to me for the past three years! I was amazed, though it was just one out of the 200, there was at least one who was cut to his heart and changed his course in life.

If we allow the Risen Lord to encounter us through the numerous ways the Lord usually does, we will be cut to our hearts! The Lord has a suggestion for the future course of action: Go and Announce! He would say he is going to the Father and would ask us to continue what he started. The disciples took it to heart and they did an enormous work... what about you and me today? 

How frequently do we have this pressing question in our hearts: What are we to do? What am I to do? Is there some course of my life that i need to alter, in order that I may live my life to the full? This is the Easter Call, to open our hearts, to ask that question and to resume our course towards living a life to the full!