A relative who left the Catholic Church and joined some Messianic-Jewish sect made the comment that Easter was originally a pagan holiday named after some German goddess, Eoster. We had a pretty good argument about that. Where would he get…
Easter
A friend once described the spiritual life in this way: Each of us is a child with an instinct for beauty, and God, who is the Beauty behind all beauty, is the hidden presence we naturally seek to touch. We…
Nothing disturbs us so much as weakness or powerfulness. It is so painful to find ourselves unable to do the good that we so eagerly want to do. Nothing can be as disappointing as seeing others exhibit their own weakness…
Our Filipino brothers and sisters have a beautiful Easter devotion they call Salubong (“The Encounter”).
Gathering before dawn, they relive the meeting of the risen Jesus with his Blessed Mother on the first Easter morning. The women come from one…
