If the risen Lord remained on Earth for 40 days after Easter before ascending to Heaven, where was He the rest of the time and what was He doing when He was not appearing to His followers?
Tag: Easter
Fully embracing Easter
As we celebrate Easter, the very cornerstone of our Christian faith, I recently reread all of the Easter accounts in the four Gospels.
Easter offers believers hope to begin again
In Connecticut, one of my older classmates took delight in asking younger seminarians what was the most important feast in the Catholic Church. If they replied Christmas, he would look at them as if he were deeply shocked.
Mama told me (not to come)
Jelly beans in the 1970s were sturdy and dry, their rainbow colors missing blue and disappointingly studded with somber white and black.
Sharing in Christ’s Resurrection
The Lenten penitence and sorrow of Holy Week have given way to Easter joy! Not only during Lent but frequently throughout the year, we are reminded of our call to take up our cross and to unite our suffering with Christ.
Back to reality
Today is the day after Divine Mercy Sunday and the day after the Octave of Easter and I’m a little bummed.
Easter message from Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison
“But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.” (John 16: 22). This promise of Jesus in His farewell discourse before His Passion and death is a remarkable moment of hope for the apostles and indeed for all of us. Yes, Jesus will suffer horrifying crucifixion and an early death. Yes, His friends will be shattered by their overwhelming loss and grief. But against all human expectation, the Lord rises from the grave to live forever, conquering the seemingly intractable power of sin and death for all people of all time. This epic victory of the Son over the power of the Evil One is the source and center of our Easter faith.
Jeremy’s empty egg reflects his Easter heart
The hearts of Doris Miller’s students danced with Easter joy. A week before she had given each student a hollow plastic Easter egg.
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Easter brings meaning to our lives forever
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Victor Frankl, a world-famous Austrian psychiatrist, who survived a Nazi concentration camp noticed that those who survived the camp tended to have something or someone to live for!
Hence the expression, “A person with a why can live with any how!”
Christ was born to bring hope to us, to make life more meaningful in this world, and then offer us the hope of Eternity.