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Headlines Pope Francis Easter Vigil Homily: Where is My Galilee? Encountering Jesus By Pope Francis | April 20, 2014 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 along the shores of the lake as the fishermen were casting their nets. He had called them, and they left everything and followed him (cf. Mt 4:18-22). To return to Galilee means to re-read everything on the basis of the cross and its victory. To re-read everything - Jesus' preaching, his miracles, the new community, the excitement and the defections, even the betrayal - to re-read everything starting from the end, which is a new beginning, from this supreme act of love. For each of us, too, there is a "Galilee" at the origin of our journey with Jesus. "To go to Galilee" means something beautiful, it means rediscovering our baptism as a living fountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christian experience. Continue Reading... Live the Easter Way! The Holy Spirit which Transformed the Early Church Enlists Us! By Deacon Keith Fournier | April 20, 2014 I just watched Pope Francis preside at the Easter Vigil at the Basilica of St Peter. His homily on encountering Jesus and finding our own Galilee was beautiful. Now, I am about to depart for the Easter Vigil at my parish in Chesapeake, Virginia. I will greet the elect who nervously - but excitedly- await the reception of the Easter Sacraments. The miracles which have occurred in their lives throughout this period of instruction remind me that we are living in a new missionary age of the Church. The same Holy Spirit which raised Jesus from the dead is at work in the Church, which He founded and over which He presides. We need not be afraid of anything which is occurring in our time.  Urbi Et Orbi: Pope Francis Gives Easter Message to the City and the World By Pope Francis | April 20, 2014 The message which Christians bring to the world is this: Jesus, Love incarnate, died on the cross for our sins, but God the Father raised him and made him the Lord of life and death. In Jesus, love has triumphed over hatred, mercy over sinfulness, goodness over evil, truth over falsehood, life over death.  Holy Saturday: God has Died in the Flesh and Hell Trembles with Fear By Deacon Keith Fournier | April 20, 2014 Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear. He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. Continue Reading... Good Friday: Behold the Wood of the Cross By Deacon Keith Fournier | April 19, 2014 This is Good Friday. This is the day when the whole world stands still. We recall the great Sacrifice offered on the second tree on Golgotha\'s Hill. There, the one St. Paul calls the New Adam (1 Cor.15), in the perfect obedience of love, did for us what we could not do on our own. There, Heaven was wed to earth. There, we were freed from the power of sin and death. There, we learn the Way of Crucified Love.Today as we contemplate the Passion we also plumb the mystery and meaning of the Church. We are members of His Body. She was born from the wounded side of the Savior. He betroths her in His great self emptying on the Altar of the Cross. Through her Sacraments, Jesus, the head of the Body, continues to feed us all with the divine life we need to enter more fully into the new communion which is ours through this saving Paschal mystery. Continue Reading... A Good Friday Reflection By Michael Seagriff | April 18, 2014 This is not just another Friday. This is Good Friday. Will that fact make any difference in the way we live this day? Continue Reading... Good Friday Reflection on the Nature of Sin By Michael Terheyden | April 18, 2014 The Passion of Christ represents the most atrocious miscarriage of justice in all of human history. So when we come face to face with the crucified Christ on Good Friday, it is only natural for us to reflect on the nature of sin. Continue Reading... Pope Francis encourages people to kiss crucifix and recite simple prayer By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | April 16, 2014 Pope Francis is encouraging people this holy week to pick up a crucifix, kiss it and recite the simple prayer: "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord." He wishes to remind others that Christ's passion "isn't the happy ending of a beautiful fairytale, it isn't the happy ending of a film", but is the result of the loving intervention of God, who wanted to give humanity hope and salvation. Continue Reading...
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