I decided that the best way to gauge reactions to the film was to gather feedback from none other than my own Filipino-American family.
Easter
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis’ vigil message: Let the women lead out of the darkness of war
On this night, brothers and sisters, let us allow the women of the Gospel to lead us by the hand, so that, with them, we may glimpse the first rays of the dawn of God’s life rising in the darkness of our world.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Holy Saturday’s best-kept secret
Holy Saturday can feel like the sleepless night-before-Christmas of the Triduum. But it can be a meaningful part of Easter—and not just a time to dye eggs or make tomorrow’s dessert.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Good Friday: When we love selfishly, we kill the thing we love.
In preaching Christ crucified, the church reveals both our guilt and our redemption. A love that cannot step free of self eventually kills what it loves.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
On Holy Thursday, Jesus flips our very understanding of God
We have always wanted to be God, to claim the right of truth, to receive and not to give. Yet on this night, Jesus pours it all away, our very understanding of God, over our feet and into a basin to be pitched.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Words can’t prove the resurrection. But for Mary Magdalene, Jesus’ voice reveals the truth of Easter.
In so many of our resurrection accounts it is the voice, not the face, that reveals the presence of the living, resurrected Christ.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The Gospel of John has been used to justify anti-Semitism—so we should stop reading it on Good Friday
“The Jews” didn’t kill Jesus. And if the Gospel of John makes people think that, we should read a different Gospel on Good Friday.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: The weapons of the Gospel are prayer, forgiveness and love
Jesus’ peace “is not an armed peace, never!” Pope Francis said in his general audience. “The weapons of the Gospel are prayer, tenderness, forgiveness and freely-given love for one’s neighbor.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Easter Vigil is the longest liturgy of the year. And it’s so, so worth your time.
The Easter Vigil is a Mass that bears only a basic resemblance to typical Catholic weekend worship, but in breaking from that form it brings home the power of the Resurrection anew.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis calls for an Easter truce in Ukraine, leading to ‘peace through a true negotiation’
On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis made an appeal to “lay down the arms in Ukraine” and asked, “What kind of a victory would it be to plant a flag on a heap of ruins?”