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the first day of the week

weekly Letter from the Bishop of Lérida

for Sunday March 27, 2011

Sunday is

one of the first and most original Christian institutions by the fact that the Lord - Jesus rose and expressed his own "on the first day of the week", as evidenced by the four Gospels.

know that on Sunday, the day the Lord has been from the beginning, a joyous space for Christians and that Sunday and feasts of the Christian calendar are part of the cultural heritage of faith that is embodied in the people of our geography of Europe and anywhere in the world.

Still, for many people, it's good one day only justified by the need to re-energize for the rest of the week, to rest some excesses, to change the task, to be with the family or pursue their "hobby."

In many ways, Sunday and holidays, have values \u200b\u200bthat are commonly accepted by our pluralistic society and secularitzada, even when they have the cultural label Christian. The Christian holidays have been following the existence of individuals and peoples, adapting to the life cycle of nature and evolution of all the different tasks that are building the society and giving particular color to life. It is an aspect of our culture originally Christian is not always perceived and valued, influenced by an environment that seems to eliminate refeencia God and the transcendence of the social fabric. Jesus' disciples should live the holidays in a testimonial, as privileged to express our Christian identity and at the same time, expressing our solidarity in Christ with everyone.

We share the joy of the holidays (Rom.12, 15; Lluc 15,6.9) of the Christian calendar to mark the year and also have the ability to respond to find a meaning for the leisure and free time that modern man suffers. We must show that if we are not party to "entertain" or "kill" time, but to live at home and "fun" is a gift from God, as an inclusion of eternity in the life of every day.

Holidays are opportunities to live and experience the joy and anticipation as a pledge of full happiness that can only be achieved beyond the borders of this world, when the struggle will give way to peace, the mistrust and hatred to reconciliation the pain relief and human efforts to break from God.

Jesus made the world a path of hope that we do among all active month, with enthusiasm and living one's faith without complex, loving the world and time that have touched us and fighting for improvement.

Greetings from your brother bishop,

† Joan Piris Frígola

Bishop of Lérida