Enjoy this Easter music video featuring James Martin, S.J., and Terre Roche of the Roches, based on “A New Serenity Prayer.”
Easter
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis’ Easter Message: The international community must strive to end the war in Ukraine
He asked Christ to help the international community “to make haste to surmount our conflicts and divisions, to open our hearts to those in greatest need” and “to pursue paths of peace and fraternity.”
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis’ Easter Vigil homily 2023: The women at Easter bring the news that will change life and history forever
This is what the Pasch of the Lord accomplishes: it motivates us to move forward, to leave behind our sense of defeat, to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope, and to look with confidence to the future.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ we see the dark, demonic twin of Jesus’ Passion
In these Lenten and Easter days in which the church celebrates a man whose divinity was revealed in his willingness to sacrifice everything for love, consider “Sweeney Todd” to be that story’s dark, demonic twin.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why the Last Supper is history’s most ironic moment
If irony is the opposite of what one might expect, then nothing is more ironic than God.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The grace of going through confirmation in college
Many young Catholics I know were compelled to be confirmed by family members who felt the sacrament was important. My situation was the opposite—I was confirmed of my own volition.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Rejoicing in Easter’s happy contradictions
April 9, 2023, the Resurrection of the Lord: Today’s celebration is not just a challenge to increase in faith, but also a wake-up call not to pass away with the things of the earth.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Easter—not Christmas—should be the most important Christian holiday
For the early church, the reality of the Resurrection was central, not only in the structure of the liturgical celebration, but also in the pattern of the liturgical year. Easter was the greatest feast of the whole year.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The case against confirming baptized Christians at the Easter Vigil
To receive already baptized Christians into the church at the vigil may be well-intentioned, but liturgically speaking, it is akin to suggesting that the candidates were not actually Christians before being received into the church.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: The way Catholics calculate the date of Easter could be changing
For Thanksgiving week, “Inside the Vatican” is bringing you a brief update on a few of the top Vatican stories.