A Holy Week meditation with Leal’s Pieta Leal’s painting brings us face-to-face with the historical life and death of Jesus. In Mexico, this Holy Week...
Easter
It was Easter in about 450 C.E. Paschal fires dotted the Irish landscape, joining those of Beltine, the sacred festival that opened the pastures. Near the...
Of all the great Triduum teachers, trees captivate me the most. I make a point to wander through my local arboretum each Good Friday. These Midwestern trees...
As a story loses its history, it gains its meaning. This is never truer than in stories shared among families about their common memories. Over the years, the...
The story of Jesus’ resurrection is the gospel account most central to the faith of Christians, yet, in a paradox, it’s arguably the most difficult gospel...
From death sprouts new life. I walk among trees that know the pain of dying. The wise elders that live in my local arboretum weather their share of storms...
On a Friday night in early April, a rare occurrence took place on the banks of Lake Superior. The beacon on Minnesota’s Split Rock lighthouse lit up the sky...
When I was about 6 years old, I finally got to participate in an Easter tradition in which I begged to partake every year: my Sicilian great-grandma’s roasted...
In the Good Friday intercessions, we don’t pray for “perfidious Jews” or for the “conversion of the Jews” anymore. Those sentiments were removed half a century...
A little before 1 o’clock Saturday morning, the Good Friday procession, which had started at 7 o’clock the night before, finally arrives at the Calvario Chapel...
