This is the month in which Christians all over the world contemplate about the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Let us therefore pray without ceasing in the words of St. Paul.
It was my Grandma, Violette de Fonseka, who triggered the curiosity of a 10 year old with the recitation of the Rosary — sequences of the Lord’s Prayer followed by ten prayings of the Hail Mary. Her life after the death of my Grandfather, Bernard de Fonseka, was one in which she earnestly prayed without ceasing. She used to recite the Rosary in a seemingly undisturbed pattern of contemplation. As a small boy I wondered why; it made no sense then.
One purpose of this Holy month in which a period of Lent is exercised, we are called upon to withdraw our attention from the world and immerse our lives in one of those quiet moments; this could surely lead to the mysteries of the true Christian heart and so culminate in the final Easter celebration — the resurrection.
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