Easter 2021: Beginning Again

A couple signs that Easter Sunday is an opportunity to "begin again": (1) The young man from Mark's Gospel who (figuratively) loses his baptismal garment in the Garden of Gethsemane reappears with a fresh, white garment in the Garden of Golgotha; and (2), Jesus tells his disciples that He will precede them to Galilee. Pope Francis says that this is an opportunity to ricominciare -- to begin again -- to go back to the place of their first encounter with Jesus, of their first love. Let us receive Easter 2021 as a time to ricominciare, to be reconciled and renewed in our following of the Lord!