Easter Without Mass?

by Douglas Farrow

I have yet to learn how asking everyone to remain at home at Easter is an extraordinary measure proper to the Church.  Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2020

Meditating on COVID-19

by Hans Boersma

Does our collective preoccupation with the coronavirus get in the way of our ecclesial calling to meditate upon Jesus’s passion? Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2020

Easter Morning

by Andrew Frisardi

Prime At dawn, the shapes of cypresses in fogwere fingers pointing up from graves, as if what’s bornmight rouse the dead into an epilogueof mist that lifted, leaving swatches in whitethorn. Terce My breath’s the ectoplasm of a ghostin ringing air. The local churches callthe faithful while I mark . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Easter Vigil

by Mary-Patrice Woehling

You’re rising somewhere in the April nightAgain, as ever with returning spring.Your tomb will be found empty at first light Again. The dead cells of Your corpse igniteAnd flame to life; the spheres of Heaven ring.You’re rising somewhere in the April night To glory. For a moment all is right;The . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Earth Day and Easter

by John Murdock

Is Earth Day only an occasion for godless over-the-hill hippies to recall their glory days? Continue Reading »

22 Apr 2019

The Easter Effect Today

by George Weigel

Christians can do the work of evangelization because the first Easter told us that despair never gets the final word. Continue Reading »

17 Apr 2019

Cheap Joy

by Kenneth Colston

The Resurrection without Holy Week would be pie-in-the-sky and cheap joy.  Continue Reading »

4 May 2018

Stephen Hawking,
Surprised by Joy?

by Charlotte Allen

Is it “ableist” and offensive to wish someone free from the constraints of a physical disability? Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2018

The Fifty-Day Party

by George Weigel

Easter offers each of us the opportunity to reflect on the commission to be missionary disciples we were given at baptism. Continue Reading »

10 May 2017

After Great Lent

by Tim Markatos

Last Sunday Orthodox Christians around the world finally celebrated Pascha and proclaimed Christ risen from the dead. As in Western Christendom, Orthodox Easter is preceded by Holy Week—the liturgical pinnacle of the Orthodox Church. In this week of preparation and commemoration, our services, . . . . Continue Reading »

6 May 2016