JMJ. Slowly but surely the weather is getting a wee bit warmer, the days a little bit longer, the birds are doing their chirping thing, the squirrels are getting frisky, and the flowers are beginning to bloom. That's all very nice and I wouldn't have it any other way but there is one more harbinger of newness and growth that gets lost in the shuffle, so to speak.
These are all signs of a natural renewal of life. But just as there are two components of a person--the natural and the supernatural, the body and the soul, so, too, there is a supernatural renewal of life and that is the baptism into new life and into the Church. That's the great thing about Easter. Every year on Holy Saturday evening, pagans become Christians in the baptism of the Trinity and those Christians of other persuasions who have listened to the prompting of the Holy Ghost in their hearts were marked with Holy Oil, allowing full communion with Jesus' Church.
The actions of the Sacraments cannot be seen since they produce their effects in the supernatural realm. But the changes--those are magical and they are most manifest in the wide grins of joy, the tears, and the sense of awe on the countenaces of all those new Catholics who have just received their Saviour in the Blessed Sacrament. It's like coming out of a darkened room into the light of a wide, wondrous, new world. Thanks be to God!
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