Third Sunday of Easter: A Ghost Does Not Have Flesh and Bones
I imagine it was quite the surprise for Cleopas and his unnamed companion. They had just hustled back from Emmaus to tell the other disciples about Jesus, who spoke with […]
Category Archives: Easter
Paschal Candle, Paschal Vigil, Paschal Mystery
Each semester, when teaching the passion, death, and resurrection narratives of the Gospels to my students, I also teach the Paschal Mystery and assign the text of the Exsultet. The […]
The Frailty of Easter
We humans are a short-lived species. The average life-span in the United States hovers between 75 and 80. The age of the earth, on the other hand, is around 4,500,000,000 […]
Troubled Dealings with a God of Awesome Proportions
By: James G Sabak, O.F.M. In the historical development of the Christian liturgical tradition a significant aspect of “keeping vigil” through the nighttime hours is a prolonged liturgy of the […]
Rend Your Hearts: How to Break Your Heart This Lent
What are you giving up for Lent? I hate this question. I hate it in part because my small-town Minnesota sensibilities recoil at the idea of publicizing sacrifice. If I […]
We are the Sheep Called to be Good Shepherds
For those of us following the western liturgical calendar, today marks the fourth Sunday of Easter. This day is commonly referred to as “Good Shepherd” Sunday because the Gospel reading […]
Why did “Doubting Thomas” Doubt?
Spiritual reflections around the Catholic Church today will focus on faith and doubt–on the relationship between the two (i.e. “it’s okay to doubt sometimes”) and on the words of Jesus (“Blessed are those […]
Easter Sunday: Resurrected Reality
At Easter, and in every Eucharist, we celebrate the fullness of the paschal mystery: Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection. The resurrection does not erase the suffering and death of Christ, […]
The First Sunday in Advent: A Spirituality of the Liturgical Year
You may have noticed a change in the décor around church this Sunday: perhaps there were some new missalettes in the pews or maybe your priest greeted you in his […]
Deep Resurrection: The Martyrdom and Resurrection of Creation in Our Day
By Christine McCarthy The Long View of History: From Eternity to the History of Time Fox’s reboot of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is an […]
