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This month, parishes across the country will light their paschal candles before the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. Chances are, some of them were made by this self-taught candlemaker.
What governs whether we stand or kneel when receiving holy Communion?
The biggest factor should be safety. While distributing Communion, I have seen a person who kneels abruptly almost trip the unsuspecting next person in line. Kneeling is not necessarily more reverent than standing. Safety should be our default in such situations.
We slice up experience into beginnings, middles and ends and draw lessons from the slices.
Exodus 32:7–14; Psalm 106:19–20, 21–22, 23; John 5:31–47
Before he became the “go-to” saint for finding lost objects, St. Anthony of Padua had another nickname: “The Hammer of Heretics.”
Scholars have referred to Mark’s Gospel as a passion narrative with a few introductory texts. But more to the point, it is better described as a primer on conversion.
Friends are people who are there for us when we need them. Often we don’t know who among our acquaintances are true friends until circumstances reveal it.
Gianna’s priority, even as the pregnancy threatened her own life, was the life of her child.
Being Easter people means celebrating the good news of the risen Christ and opening our hearts and eyes to the signs of new life within and around us.
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JN 11:1-45
Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
So the sisters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
If we are called to conform ourselves and our culture to the nature of God and the nature of nature, then we can’t simply throw away things.
