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Greetings. I hope you all have a restful weekend ahead. As we quickly move towards the great feast Easter, let us not forget that the Lenten experience we have gone through. It is so easy for us to return to that which is "normal" for us rather than the "new normal" we attempted to establish during the last 40 days. It would seem that we feel like we have completed a required task and now that it is done, we can return to what we are comfortable with. But what about all we did during this holy season? The Russian TV presenter and propagandist gives us this thought about what can happen in this Holy Season. Vladimir Solovyov, in his writing, " The Meaning of Love" tells us, "True spiritual love is not the feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal from the mortal, of the eternal form the temporal, but a transfiguration of the mortal into the immortal, the acceptance of the temporal into the eternal. False spirituality is a denial of the flesh; true spirituality is the regeneration of the flesh, its salvation, its resurrection from the dead." It will be at the end of this season we call Lent that we will come to experience the core of our faith. Not even death can dominate the Love God has for each of us. That which He created, and called "Very Good" cannot return to the clay from which it was made. Remember, God said "Let us make man in Our image." The tomb could not contain the body of the Lord and the grave will not be able to contain us when it is time to return to our Creator. Peace and All Good, Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the Bros and Srs of the Franciscan House of Prayer.