"The primary purpose of receiving these sacraments is to become individuals who truly know Christ and can testify to their faith wherever they go," Archbishop Marco Tin Win said.
The Risen Lord transforms failure into fruitfulness and fear into fearless witness.
In the readings, we see the apostles transformed from fearful men hiding behind locked doors into bold proclaimers of the truth.
One is a journey from crippling physical limitation to joyful, leaping freedom. The other is a journey from crushing spiritual despair to the burning recognition of the Risen Lord.
The joy of Easter continues to unfold, and today the Church gives us two encounters with the transforming power of the Resurrection.
The stone is rolled away, the tomb is empty, and the world has been turned upside down.
The long vigil of Holy Saturday has given way to the dawn of the Resurrection.
More than one hundred priests of the Archdiocese of Yangon gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Holy Thursday morning, April 2, to celebrate the Chrism Mass and renew their priestly vows before His Eminence Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon Archdiocese.
This is the night! This is the night when darkness yields to light, when death is swallowed up in victory, when the ancient story of God's saving love reaches its climax.
We gather not around a table, but before a cross.
