by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
From Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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“Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. … as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there … she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?’ She thought it was the gardener
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From Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena …. He gave St. Faustina an intention to pray for on each day of the Novena, saving for the last day the most difficult intention of all, the lukewarm and indifferent of whom He said: ‘These souls cause Me more suffering than any others; it was
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From Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“1. ‘Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has Risen’ (Lk 24:5). … the two men dressed ‘in dazzling apparel’ rekindle the hope of the women who … rushed to the tomb …. They … experienced the tragic events culminating in Christ’s crucifixion … the sadness and the confusion. In the hour of
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Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! Who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia! Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia! Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia! Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia! But the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation
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“The Gospels of the Easter Octave describe not just an event but even more so a journey. It is tempting to think that the Disciples and Apostles, having seen the Risen Lord, were immediately confirmed in their faith, stripped of all doubt. …”
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[The Divine Office, or Liturgy of the Hours, begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, interspersed with an antiphon. For Easter Sunday, the antiphon is “The Lord is Risen, Alleluia.”] [Prior to the Psalm is an introductory phrase taken from Psalm 51 and
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“… We are the children of the apostolic witnesses. That is why we still gather early in the morning on the first day of every week to celebrate this feast of the empty tomb, give thanks for ‘Christ our life,’ as today’s Epistle calls Him. Baptized into His death and Resurrection, we live the heavenly life of the risen Christ,
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