Category: easter

  • Pascal Hours

    FROM THE EASTERN RITE Tradition, these prayers are said during Bright Week. I like them for “waking up” and “Going to Bed” prayers all during the Easter Season. Even the forty-fold “Lord Have Mercy” seems celebratory. +Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us. Amen. +Christ is…

  • Sola Scriptura Anonymous

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts  3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…

  • Pray the Day Away

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:1-10  Luke 24:13-35 Argentum et aurum non est mihi : quod autem habeo, hoc tibi do .Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee.In a funny book from 1987 called Life: A Warning, by Stephanie Brush, a lacklustre sequel to…

  • Wherein We Reference the Watergate Breakins

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 2:36-41  John 20:11-18 Quia vidi Dominum!I have seen the Lord!The above image is from the TV miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth (1977). It shows Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalen delivering these very words: Quia vidi Dominum! This holy woman (the Magdalen, not Bancroft) is called The Apostle to the…

  • The Thomas Option

    Today’s Readings: Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews… Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. John 20:19a, 24 Where was Thomas that first night…

  • Christ is Risen!

    The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom  If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast.If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.If any have wrought…