This fourth Sunday of Lent is also known as Laetare Sunday, “Rejoice” Sunday, as the Church deems it pertinent to not forget the joy of basking in the goodness of our Heavenly Father, even within the austere penitential period of Lent. Yet, how important it is for us to understand what kind of happiness and joy the Lord wishes for us, as it is so starkly different from the stagnant joy that the world and its broken system tries to offer. The kind of joy Jesus has brought us, fills our hearts with the sweetest delights in this life, but it is also gives us the grace to strive for paradise with him in the next. Can it get any better? The kind of happiness he wants for us is so powerful, that even nailed to the cross, beneath that excruciating pain was a joy that this world can never kill --the joy of doing the Father's will, even and especially when it hurts. This is the joy that saw the Son of God eternally glorified at the right hand of the Father. It's the kind of joy we too, can all possess. "Thy will be done."