Tonight's full moon is the reason why Sunday is Easter. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring.
"Mystery" is something that our small mind cannot comprehend. "Paschal" is related to Passover and to Easter and can mean something like God bringing good stuff out of bad stuff. The Suffering Servant poem from Isaiah 52:13-53:12, which is used as the first reading on Good Friday, helps us to meditate on how victory comes through defeat, exaltation through humiliation, life from death.
As we deal with this evil that threatens all of us, it's a comfort to know that God has had lots of practice at bringing good out of evil. We do what we can and finally surrender ourselves into God's powerful care.
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