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Happy Easter 2012

To the Religious of the Sacred Heart and to all the National Associations, Board members and alumnae/i:
The Administrative Officers of AMASC wish you a very Happy Easter Season.

President's Easter Message:
Before we celebrate Easter we endure the Passion of Christ. I say endure because when we sincerely take part in the Triduum, we walk alongside Christ and witness his service, suffering and death..... and only after that the Resurrection on Easter Day.
St. M Sophie encouraged us to know the Heart of Christ and through years of meditating on this heart of love we understand Christ's ministry of service. We take delight in the liturgy on Holy Thursday, the washing of the feet, and are not scandalized to watch Christ stoop so low.
But it is hard to find any corresponding joy in Jesus's suffering and death on Good Friday. We find that hard to understand and even harder to accept. Why, we ask, does Christ draw us to the foot of the cross? We have one possible answer: putting ourselves on Golgotha helps us to see Christ at the most vulnerable moment of this life. Is this the Christ we want to imitate? Yes. We need to be awakened to vulnerability because once we are vulnerable we can see the suffering of our neighbor, willingly open our hearts and walk alongside them.
Suffering with our neighbor enables us to love that neighbor as ourselves. It also helps us experience an uplifting of the Spirit, a tiny glimpse perhaps, of what Christ experienced on Easter day.

Lenten Season 2012
Lent is a time when we refine and purify the spiritual senses and identify the habits or patterns that pollute them. The means of doing this are the exercises we undertake in this season. It is not a time for self-punishment or repression. Laurence Freeman OSB

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