Tagged: Easter
Friars Corner: Four astounding resurrection stories
Countless books and movies have been produced about the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race. The whole Christian life moves toward Jesus on the cross and flows from his wounded side. Easter is our greatest feast and we celebrate it for eight days. At the daily Masses this...
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Joy Stories: Reversion at Passover – Faith Roberts writes how her return to the Catholic Church was slow and subtle with many little turning points, the best happened at a Passover dinner. Easter Sunrise Storm – What made Easter the most glorious day of the year? Not the storm but the joy in our hearts...
Easter Sunrise Storm
Remembering Easter Sunrise Services we celebrated years ago, my husband and I decided to have our own sunrise prayer time before going to Mass later. From the family room, we looked out over the lake with no visible sunrise. Just dark clouds with a little glow of light behind them. As we prayed the morning...
Friars Corner: JESUS IS RISEN, ALIVE, GLORIFIED and always with us! Amen, Alleluia!
A Blessed Easter to you and your families! Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 27-43; Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:3-4; John 20:1-9 Easter Sequence Christians, to the Paschal Victim, offer your thankful praises! A Lamb the sheep redeems; Christ, who only is sinless, Reconciles sinners to the Father. Death and life have contended, in the...
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Lent: This is My Body – Amy Welborn – As I sit at the DMV, I often marvel: God loves each person here and is working in their lives—speaking, inviting, forgiving. The Promise of Lent and grace of Eastertide – Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com – The promise of Lent continues into Eastertide: The one who began a...
Friars Corner: Behold, the King of kings, our savior Jesus Christ
Matthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14-27, 66 This Sunday begins the saddest 6 days in the life of our savior Jesus Christ and his church. God sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to tell us in person, God’s loving plan for our life and that of the whole human family....