HAPPY EASTER 2014

"How beautiful it is to stand before the cross, simply to be under the Lord's gaze, so full of love."
  Pope Francis 

We are an Easter people living in a Good Friday world.  Share the joys and hopes of Easter with the world.
                                                       

A.P.R.I.L.

What a glorious month April truly is!  With all due respect to TS Eliot, the month of April is NOT "the cruelest month," I demure, taxes aside, April is indeed the fairest month of the year.

American poet, Ogden Nash, wrote a poem about April which is posted below the last photo. As an opening act to that poem, using acronymic form, this is what A.P.R.I.L. means to me. Nash's brilliant poem below speaks loudly of the L in my life.



A. AUGUSTA in APRIL. The annual rite of spring for all golf lovers.


P. PLAY BALL is the umpire's April siren song to starting the new baseball season.


R. RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ celebrated on Easter Sunday in April serves as the meaning of existence for all faithful Christians.



I. INCOME TAXES due in April just to keep the rest of April's joy real and meaningful.


L. "LUV" my name for my wife who celebrates her birthday in April.

Always Marry an April Girl by Ogden Nash
Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true -
I love April, I love you.

Enjoy all the bounty this month provides.