Today at 1:32 pm the Vernal Equinox occurs and Spring officially enters the Northern Hemisphere. A perfect day: it is sunny and warm, it feels like Spring and it is a Saturday. Not by accident is this transition from Winter to Spring happening just two weeks before Easter. As the earth again promises to bud forth new life in the weeks ahead, we recall that those preparing for Baptism will "bud forth" new life: the life of God. We will celebrate our own "new life" when we renew our baptismal promises. It is truly a season of grace.
And being Saturday, we think of Mary, God-Bearer, the Mother of Jesus, the author of this new life, Our Lady of Grace, the amazing Grace that has brought salvation to us. The Oglala Lakota and other tribes out west, think of the earth as Grandmother Earth. As we might be taking advantage of this fine day to clean our yards, we might notice the maternal, nurturing qualities of the earth as crocuses and daffodils break through the soil, buds appear on pussy-willows and forsytheas, and see the corrolation between Mary's role as mother and nurturer of the grace she made possible by her YES. We might be led to make our yard work a prayer, a meditation, a preparation for Easter, and a pledge to live our grace-filled lives with deeper attention to and appreciation of this season of grace.
Bro. Rene
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