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Through the instrumentality of the sacraments of his Church Jesus strengthens the sick and forgives the sinner. He is as alive today as he was during his earthly life.
COVID-19 has splintered our human family. But Pope Francis has words of wisdom for us to savor.
God offers us salvation in Jesus. We can’t earn it, but we can accept it from the generosity of the Father and the risen Christ.
The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the apostles’ message, the keystone of the Christian faith, then and now.
Easter is a beginning, not an ending. And this Easter story from Thomas of Celano reminds us that for Francis, the challenge to remain true to the Gospel was one that needed to be renewed again and again.
Today we will celebrate Christ’s resurrection, as rightly we should. But the cleansing effect of our Lenten sacrifices can stay with us for however long we choose to remember them.
As we come now to the celebration of Easter, we recall that one of the hallmarks of Francis’s life was a deep joy in the love of Christ and the glories of creation.
For St. Francis, meditating on the Passion was not some medieval exercise in masochism but a means of uniting himself completely to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, a way of living so thoroughly into the mystery of Christ that he was able to lead others into this mystery.
As the Christian community reflected on today’s passage from Isaiah, it became clear that the figure being presented was Jesus, the servant of God.
St. Francis was absolutely devoted to the Eucharist. It’s one of the reasons he was so concerned about rebuilding and cleaning local churches, making them suitable homes for the Eucharist.
