My dear friends, the Lord give you peace. Let me just preface today’s homily by letting you know that I have been away from my computer and technological means for the last ten days, so that if you found the homilies a little silent on recent happenings, just know that I had prepared beforehand the homilies I had the website upload automatically for each day I was absent. That said, we get to today, the Saturday of the first week of Easter, or the seventh day of the Easter Octave. Either way, it is a beautiful day, because once again the Lord is blessing us with marvelous opportunities to get closer to him, the source of all our strength, hope, peace, joy and, in a word, all that is good.