Did You Miss The Great Reset?

A lot wind is expelled from sometimes thoughtful, sometimes not-so-thoughtful people regarding what's been called "The Great Reset." It's cooled a bit lately, but it still hangs in the air like the smell of gunpowder after a fireworks display.

Most of the chatter addresses what it is and when to expect it. If you believe in the Great Reset we keep hearing about, it's either about to spring on us, or it's already started to. 

Without weighing in on whether or not that Great Reset is or will change our world - at least the social and economic fabric of it - The (real) Great Reset already happened. We celebrated it last Sunday.

Without minimizing the potential impact on our lives of the Great Reset as designed by the infamous Klaus Schwab and his merry band of elites of the World Economic Forum, it's ultimately small potatoes compared to The Great Reset.

We'd all be wise to at least recognize this. The next step after recognition would be to change our lives. There's no time to get into that right now, but if you have a few minutes, you may want to read these sections of a glorious prayer called the "Exultet" from the Easter Vigil Liturgy. It is read or sung after the new light of the Resurrection of Christ breaks the night's darkness at the beginning of the Liturgy.

(I'll edit this to emphasize the parts that directly address The Great Reset.)

It begins thusly:

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven,
exult, let Angel ministers of God exult,
let the trumpet of salvation
sound aloud our mighty King’s triumph!
Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her,
ablaze with light from her eternal King,
let all corners of the earth be glad,
knowing an end to gloom and darkness....

This is the night,
when once you led our forebears, Israel’s children,
from slavery in Egypt
and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea.

This is the night
that with a pillar of fire
banished the darkness of sin.

This is the night
that even now, throughout the world,
sets Christian believers apart from worldly vices
and from the gloom of sin,
leading them to grace
and joining them to his holy ones.

This is the night,
when Christ broke the prison-bars of death
and rose victorious from the underworld.

Our birth would have been no gain,
had we not been redeemed.
O wonder of your humble care for us!
O love, O charity beyond all telling,
to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!

Yeah, I now it was a rough week for the markets. Just about everything got hammered. Ugly. But in the greater scheme of things, knowing what The Great Reset has done for us (not that other Great Reset), we can all not only take comfort, but, really, we should stand up and rejoice.

Don't you think?