Last Palm Sunday we began a special journey together, which we called: “CARE FOR HIM: Holy Week with the Daughters of Jesus”. It was an invitation to look at the world with the eyes of Jesus, to stop in the midst of everyday life and let ourselves be touched by his way of loving and caring.
The International Communications Commission of the Daughters of Jesus wanted to propose to you to live these days as a true interior itinerary: a time to contemplate, to listen to the Word and to allow ourselves to be transformed. Under the motto “CARE FOR HIM” (Lk. 10:35b), each day was accompanied by a short video that offered us a concrete key to incarnate the Gospel in the simple things of each day.
Today, as we begin the Easter season, we do not close this path… we deepen it.
Easter time, a time of life
Easter opens us to a new life, it reminds us that the last word is not in pain or death, but in love that conquers and renews everything. For this reason, we want to continue walking together.
During this Easter season, we will share, Sunday by Sunday, new proposals that will help us to live this Easter season with depth and commitment. We will let ourselves be enlightened and we will delve deeper from three sources that intertwine and guide us:
- The Easter message from the General Government of the Daughters of Jesus
- The word of the Holy Father in the Easter message Urbi et Orbi of Pope Leo XIV
- The Gospel for each Sunday of the Easter Season until Pentecost.
On this horizon, the call to peace that the Risen Lord offers us as a gift and a task resounds strongly. A peace that is broken in so many places in the world. A peace that is not the absence of conflict, but the active presence of love, justice and care.
Peace: a cry in the midst of pain
Today more than ever, this call is urgent in our wounded world. In a special way, we look with pain at what is happening in the Middle East, where violence, war and the suffering of so many brothers and sisters cry out to heaven. The wounds of humanity are visible in concrete faces, in displaced families, in broken lives that urgently need real gestures of peace.
We want to continue to say together: take care of him.
Take care of life, especially life under threat.
Take care of others, especially those who suffer war and injustice.
Take care of hope, even when it seems fragile or distant.
May this Easter season help us not to be indifferent, to open our hearts and to commit ourselves, from small things, to the construction of peace. May we pray intensely for peace. May we be courageous witnesses of that peace that comes from the heart of the risen Christ and that our world urgently needs.
