“Today we celebrate the central day of our Catholic faith. Everything, everything points to this and flows toward it and flows from it,” Father Robert C. Pasley, KCHS, rector of Mater Ecclesiae Mission, preached at High Mass on Easter Sunday in Berlin. “Christ is alive. It’s not a personage of the past. He is now with us. He has risen.”
About 70 people filled the pews for the 10:30 a.m. High Mass. Nearly 300 attended the Low Mass at 8 a.m.
In his homily, Father Pasley spoke about when Saint Mary Magdalen, and the other holy women, went to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus.
“They were performing this deed of love that wasn’t something very easy to do. These women loved Our Lord in this life, and they followed Him to his Death. They provide for us an example of service to Christ, even when it’s inconvenient,” Father Pasley preached. “They came bearing the sweetness of good works, and they teach us to always give to Him the sweetness of our good works, and our prayer and our love for Him.”
He went on to talk about a book he recently read, one that talks about how to make disciples. The book explains “that one of the problems in Catholic churches is that Catholics don’t know the Kerygma, they don’t know that they have to follow the Risen Lord, who is alive.”
He said he was surprised by those findings, and how one could attend Mass, listen to the Gospel and not know the proclamation of Jesus Christ as Savior.
“Now, I don’t believe that’s here,” he told the faithful gathered in the pews. “Here, if you ask everybody in this church, they would say, ‘Yes, I am a follower of Jesus. Do I know He’s alive? Yes. Do I know He’s risen from the dead? Yes. Do I believe in Him? Yes. Is He my Lord and Savior? Yes.’
“We believe that, and we have to continue to proclaim it to everyone we meet,” Father Pasley said. “We need to proclaim this message all the time. We’ve got to ask people to come [to church]. We’ve got to ask them to experience what we experience. Today’s Mass. Last night’s Mass. We experience the Risen Lord in the magnificence of these liturgical celebrations, which the Church has passed down to us in sacred tradition. You come out of church and you know you’ve met the living Lord. You sense the reverence, you sense the sacredness, you know He is here. So we need to continue to bring more people in so that they can experience it and know what the truth is.”
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