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Genesis 1:27-28
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

The basic good of Marriage are union and fruitfulness: union between husband and wife and fruitfulness--both physical and spiritual--in the womb and the soul. This requires what the Christian life requires: faith, hope, and love, three items we cannot muster without the help of God. Faith means "you stay." Hope means "God is taking you someplace wonderful.' And love means you desire and labour toward that Day when your neighbour has all the graces of God you want for yourself and those you love most. The family is the training ground for these virtues. The goods and requirements are, by God's clever design, the same thing. To have faith you must be faithful; to have hope, you must hope; to have love, you must love. Today, seek to live in faith, hope, and love in your family. If you cannot love your family whom you have seen, you cannot love Humanity, whom you have not seen.

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Easter Sunday celebrates Christ's victory over sin and death. This victory is directly and immediately the work of God, and Easter is therefore the day the Lord has made. The first creation of the world went astray; the re-creation of the world dawns on Easter when all is made new. "This is the day the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad" (Ps 118: 24).

The astonishment of the holy women at the tomb, of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, of the apostles who found the tomb empty gave way to joy in their meetings with the Risen Lord. "Jesus is Lord," they exclaim, and everything and everyone gets a second chance at everlasting life and eternal joy.

During the Easter Vigil, when the candle symbolizing Christ the light of the world is prepared and lit, the priest declares that all time and all the ages belong to Christ. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the fulcrum of history, the event that gives ultimate meaning to every time and age, to every lifetime and event.

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John 19:28-30

After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), "I thirst." A bowl full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished"; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

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During Lent, we take stock of our own sinfulness and its consequences. The toll is heavy, both personally and socially. Faced with this picture of evil in our lives, and in the world, many come to question God and his relation to his creatures.