O Brother

Easter time

Let us be certain that, sooner or later, we too will hear our name as Mary Magdalene heard it after the Resurrection: “Mary.” Then we will enter into the joy of God; astonished by the supreme simplicity of the Resurrection, we too will repeat the sweet exclamation of the great saint: “Rabboni.”

And already we have heard our name because we have been called, and we believed before we saw with our eyes. That is why we must walk through the city of the world and through any catastrophe and hardship, any war, revolution or corruption, with the luminous vision of the eternal Truth, and say from the depths of our souls, with fear and joy:

“He is truly risen”

(Fr. Theodossios Maria of the Cross)

O brother, all the visible things will pass,

and the man and his works

and his knowledge

and the earth and the firmament.

But above the movements, the distances,

the largest and the smallest numbers

and any radiation,

there is a life of peace without end

in the infinite love of God.

Mary, the Queen of Heaven and earth,

may lead you

to the kingdom of Christ.

Father Theodossios-Maria of the Cross (Theodossios Sgourdelis, 1909-1989), was born in Greece and lived in Paris where he carried out an intense activity in the field of the culture and the art. Later on he converted to Catholicism, he became priest and founded the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, first in Athens, then in Rome. At present the main seat of the Fraternity is in Bagnoregio (Italy), native land of Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church, where the Founder died and is buried in the church of the SS. Annunziata.