For the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Father Joshua Whitfield explains that when we are fearful, troubled or worried, we need to have faith. Easter makes it more believable. Faith in the Lord’s resurrection and hope in ours is what gives us strength
For the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Opening the Word columnist Catherine Cavadini reflects on the readings that focus on the disciple Peter and his understanding of the Resurrection: “Peter tells us that Christ loves us, even we when we are yet sinners.
In his column this week, Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of a little-known legend about Easter morning and how the light of Christ on Easter morning transformed an ugly, useless plant into what we now know as the sunflower. He writes:
Like Christmas and other Catholic holy days, Easter is often misunderstood and mis-celebrated. Either its origins are said to be based on pagan holidays (a myth we will bust), or we treat it as a day to binge after a season of
In his latest column, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, draws a parallel between the story of Christ’s resurrection and two classic novels — Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer” and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” Father Briscoe writes: “The Easter story
Preparing us for the Resurrection of the Lord, Father Joshua Whitfield reflects that God sometimes must repeat grace. We may not take notice at first. Mary Magdalene thinks at first Jesus’ body has been stolen; that’s why she runs to Peter and
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor editor Father Patrick Briscoe writes that while fake news is rampant and AI generated images can trick us into believing what we ordinarily would not, the evidence that Christ died on the cross and rose
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills examines from a different perspective the passage in Scripture where Christ asks his followers to “take up your cross and follow me.” Mills asks, sincerely: What if the cross you’ve been given wasn’t accepted by choice?
Father Jonathan Mitchican writes: “Easter forces us to think about our bodies. Jesus saves us in and through his body. In his resurrection, he gives us a glimpse of what our bodies will ultimately be like. Therefore, the more we understand about
A reader ask, “ I’m wondering if you can help me with an explanation of the word ‘again’ in The Apostles Creed: ‘… he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead.’” In his latest column, Monsignor