My Turn: The pear tree and resurrection

Óscar Romero’s resurrection spirituality

St. Óscar Romero's spiritual convictions on the resurrection can be categorized in four ways. First, resurrection is an act and fruit of the Spirit, even now; second, resurrection is a communal, historical reality; third, resurrection is a process of ongoing conversion; and fourth, resurrection is always an eschatological event.

My Turn: The pear tree and resurrection

It is difficult to dislodge even a whimsical memory after it has escaped the shadowy fringes of the inner life and bored itself into consciousness. Side by side with the Christian image of resurrection, the unbidden memory of my child self in an Easter outfit, a pink seersucker suit and little white hat with a perky flower attached, challenged me to make a story out of this apparent incongruity.