An Easter Homecoming for Jimmy
April 1st, 2008 by Br. Peter Totleben, OP
Br. Hugh Vincent Dyer, O.P. wrote a reflection on the season of Easter for the website GodSpy.com entitled “An Easter Homecoming for Jimmy.”
Easter marks the dawning of a new and eternal day. The Church commemorates the Resurrection day of Christ as an octave; eight days of rejoicing as if it were a single day. The preface for the Eucharistic prayer in these days speaks in the present tense “on this Easter day”. The Beatles sang of needing love eight days a week and of a longing for a space in which love could overflow even beyond eight days. God’s superabundant Love is manifested in this the highest of octaves.
