{"id":7899,"date":"2024-03-31T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2024-03-31T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:29:14","slug":"hes-alive-im-forgiven-heavens-gates-are-open-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/hes-alive-im-forgiven-heavens-gates-are-open-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Alive, I&#8217;m Forgiven, Heaven&#8217;s Gates are Open Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70qk6tLHht4?si=V-xk-KgPbptg0C_H\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter Sunday: when we celebrate the best news humanity&#8217;s ever had \u2014 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t what I was hoping to have ready for today. This household has been having an interesting week. That&#8217;s something I may talk about in another post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ll repeat something I&#8217;ve said before, add a few links, and call it day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/when-you-come-into-your-kingdom\/#God\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20130220ff\/Watching20141129-329bCpr.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian H. Gill's 'Watching.' (2014)\" align=\"right\"><\/a>God loves us. All of us. Each of us. And wants to adopt us. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/romans\/8#53008015\">Romans 8:15<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/ephesians\/1#57001003\">Ephesians 1:3<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/ephesians\/1#57001005\">5<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2peter\/1#69001003\">Peter 2:3<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2peter\/1#69001004\">4<\/a>; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1-3, 27-30, 52, 1825, 1996)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepting God&#8217;s offer isn&#8217;t all good times and parties. But oceans of joy surround us, even when we don&#8217;t notice them. Remembering that isn&#8217;t always easy for me. 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