Easter is the time to ponder the certitude of the Resurrection and reject the attribute of worldliness. For only in the truth of the Resurrection is our salvation to be found.
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“Your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found!”
“Our society needs to be healed, to make peace with our world, to make peace with our neighbors and to make peace with each other in the way that the Risen Lord taught us,” writes the Bishop of Macau, Most Rev Stephen Lee Bun Sang, in his Easter Message for 2022.
Surmounting the Sting of Death
Easter is that time of the year when every Catholic must remember that there is life beyond a physical death, and it is that life in Jesus that we must look toward.
From Flora to Guia, in the footsteps of Jesus
Catholics can fully live the Paschal mystery by embracing Christ’s suffering with conviction. To live the spirit of Easter season to its fullest is to walk together as humanity and to recognize the suffering of others, accepting that true joy is only found in the Risen Christ.
The courage to face emptiness: Confronting the empty tomb of our life
The Resurrection is a truth that is beyond the grasp of mere human understanding. It takes submission to grace that allows us to overcome the empty tomb of despair and pain to embrace the serenity and peace of Easter.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (172): Why does freedom need the law?
Very often we rely more on maps or signposts than on our own sense of direction, of whose unworthiness we have plenty of experience. When we follow the signposts we don’t have any sense of being imposed upon; rather do we welcome them as a great help, a fresh piece of information which we immediately proceed to make our own.
The barbaric crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Although we are inured by a violent world, it is the mystics and saints that draw out compunction and repentance for sin with their intimate revelations of the true depth of cruelty our Lord and Savior was subject to.
REMEMBERING LOUIS DUCHESNE (1843-1922)
Duchesne applied a rigorously historical method in his scholarship. Although in this period, all of this could be viewed with suspicion, as at times the supernatural element was completely eliminated by “naturalizing it” (a theological trend that remains very much alive up to our time).
NOVA ET VETERA IN HARMONIOUS CONTINUITY
It is good that in churches there is an environment conducive to the preservation and showcasing of the many sacred furnishings no longer in use but, nonetheless, singular for their art and value.
Sacrifice is Integral to the Christian Life
Holy Week reminds us to die to the world and self, in imitation of Christ, the eternal king, in order to achieve the glory of God’s kingdom.