Wed Apr 27, 2022 – 3:52 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – We recently completed the Octave of Easter, the eight-day period in which we celebrate Christ’s resurrection, as testified to by the disciples who witnessed it. That liturgical season is an elaboration on the seven-day sequence of creation, in which God made the world — in fact, made all of reality — in six days, and then rested on the seventh.
The symbolic significance of the eight days is that this Octave marks the beginning of a new creation. Jesus has shown us, through His death and rising, that we too have the hope of immortality. What Jesus accomplished can be our goal as well.
That’s the supreme revelation of the world’s true order, an order designed and controlled by God. We participate in it through our faith in him, but it’s his doing, not an accomplishment of man.
For some time now, we’ve been hearing about a so-called new world order. This concept has been referred to by several names. The terminology currently favored is the “Great Reset.” But by whatever label, it’s a way of living designed and controlled by human beings, in which God has little
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