Editorial: Be blessed with the season’s miracle

Editorial: Be blessed with the season’s miracle

May your life be blessed with the miracle of the season, and may the season be alive with the miracle of everlasting life. The Easter Story “Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone was rolled aside from the entrance. “She ran and found Simon Peter and me, and said, ‘They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb and I don’t know where they have put him!’ We ran to the tomb to see; …

It Wasn’t the Nails That Held Him There—It Was Love

A powerful Easter reflection on the love of Jesus that held Him to the cross—not the nails. Discover the hope and victory found in His resurrection.

Hope in the tomb

Our hope begins at a tomb. It was empty, of course, but Mary Magdalene didn’t know it at the time. She thought he was in there, his body. It was only love that compelled her to be there, not hope. That was gone.Love held her in place, that dark and sad place. I doubt she hoped for anything at all in those early, silent hours of mourning. She loved him, so she was there. She just had no idea what else to do. That's what love does sometimes, it li…

Hope in the tomb - Catholic Review

Our hope begins at a tomb. It was empty, of course, but Mary Magdalene didn’t know it at the time. She thought he was in there, his body. It was only love that compelled her to be there, not hope. That was gone. Love held her in place, that dark and sad place. I doubt she hoped for anything at all in those early, silent hours of mourning. She loved him, so she was there. She just had no idea what else to do. That’s what love does sometimes, it l…

Unlocking the Hope That is In Us - Catholic Insight

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, “The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failures, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.” Hope is the least talked about and most constant of all virtues. There is not a day passes that we do not experience hundreds of hopes. As the saying goes, Hope springs eternal. It is the easiest of virtues to acquire and the …

Eternal Easter bells: The triumph of hope

I often return to Charles Péguy at Easter. One of my favorite poets, his words remind me what it’s all about. From his long poem “The Portal of the Mystery of Hope,” these are the lines I recall at every remembrance of Christ’s resurrection: “So God, for each soul that is saved, rings the eternal Easter bells. And he says: I told you so.” That’s my favorite bit of the whole very long poem — about God saving souls, ringing eternal bells, saying “…