"Why did Jesus ask the women to go to Galilee" asks Pope Francis in his homily at Easter Vigil. "Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To return there, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked...
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Ladies of Charity – Jesus is Risen prayer service
Jesus is Risen A Blessing for Beauty at Easter From a prayer service by Sr. Carol Schumer, DC The following is an excerpt.... May the beauty of your life become more visible to you, that youmay glimpse your wild divinity. May the wonders of the earth call you forth...
Watered down Resurrection doesn’t work
Jim Martin SJ has a thoughtful reflection on Why a watered-down Resurrection doesn't work. The Resurrection may be the hardest thing for people to accept about Christianity. Some agnostics embrace Jesus as a compassionate sage. Seekers, if they’re closer to belief,...
Go to where you know Jesus to be
Kelly Wahlquist has a beautiful visual prayer "Go to where you know Jesus to be" "On Holy Saturday, when Mary Magdalene faced her darkest hour—her Lord, her Hope, her Love, her Savior was dead and buried—she went to the tomb. She went to where she knew the Lord to be....
Saturday Study Hall – “Love creative unto infinity”
Within our Vincentian Family, we often cite the saying of St. Vincent: “Love is creative even to infinity” as a sort of rallying cry for adaptation. But do we understand Vincent's use of the phrase? Robert Maloney CM writes... "Ordinarily, we use this citation to...
Stations of the Cross in real life
Living Stations of the Cross - Connecting an ancient practice of remembrance with the suffering in today's world Megan Fincher writes "On Good Friday, Jesus not only reveals that he is our Savior, but also, more subtly, that he is our Teacher. During his Passion, was...
Resurrection is not a happy ending movie
Asia News reports Pope: The Resurrection "is not a happy ending in a movie" but "a humble victory of God, that humanly looks like a failure" The story continues.... Two children join Francis on the back of his jeep. The two, both with a white cap, and smiles somewhat...
Pope Francis prays the Way of the Cross
Every year, the pope asks a person or group of people to write the meditations that are read aloud during the nighttime torch-lit Good Friday ceremony, which he presides over. For 2014, Pope Francis picked Italian Archbishop Giancarlo Maria Bregantini of...
Formation Friday – Vincentian Stations
The Stations reflect our service and our journey as Christians who love Christ and seek to serve Him in the poor. This is our mission as Vincentians. This is our mission as Catholics. When we look into the eyes of the poor we see Your suffering Son, Your love and...
Another version of “Who am I?” this Holy Week
On Palm Sunday the Pope asked us to think about who we would be as we encounter the many personalities in the scriptures of this week. Debbie of "Saints 365 - Striving for the heights of Holiness in the trenches of everyday life" presents some of our possible answers....