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Jesus wept when he heard that his friend Lazarus was dead. His human response was just like ours. Yet it did not end in despair. The life he restored to Lazarus is on offer to us... life to the full. And it's available both sides of the grave.

Lazarus came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, let him go free." (John 11:44)

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

(Charlotte Gilman)

An old legend says that Adam was created on March 25th. This is more than likely because Jesus, known as the "Second Adam", was traditionally thought to have been conceived on this day, exactly nine months before Christmas.

The message of the Angel Gabriel, on the feast of the Annunciation, heralded the beginning of the New Testament promise to us and its mystery is expressed in the final section of the Angelus Prayer:

Lord, fill our hearts with your grace,
and as once through the message of an angel
you revealed to us the Incarnation of your Son, so now, through his suffering and death,
lead us to the glory of his resurrection.

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