7 Easter Sundays
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Monday, April 13, 2009 4:35 AM
As April and I suggest in an upcoming User’s Guide to Sunday:
You observed Lent: Plan something special for your family this Easter Season. How about a special Sunday morning breakfast each week? Or ice cream after Mass? A family Sunday outing? Maybe a special Easter dessert? Here’s the Easter schedule:
1. April 12: Easter Sunday
2. April 19: Easter Sunday II, Divine Mercy Sunday
3. April... READ MORE
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10 Ways to Know He Rose
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:45 PM
(CNS photo/J.D. Long-Garcia, Catholic Sun)
These “Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection” were derived in large part from Tim Drake’s Easter Evidence.
1. The testimony of the texts. It is significant that Scripture, Tradition and the Church thereafter all agree that Christ rose. That kind of unanimity of witness is rare — and meaningful.
2. The testimony of the Twelve. If the apostles were making up a religion, they were making... READ MORE
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Register Classic/Magdalen
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:44 PM
From our archives, free to subscribers:
Eternal Day of Ressurection
BY Father Peter John Cameron OP
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
March 30, 1997 John 20, 1–9
JESUS CHRIST is risen from the dead! The power of the Resurrection imparts new life to us-life that is new in every way. Easter does not signal a return to business as usual, resuming the life to which we had become accustomed before the... READ MORE
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Baptized by the Pope
Posted by Tom McFeely
Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:16 AM
Heidi and Dan Sierras with their children, Logan, 3, baby Eleanor, Kayla, 8, and Ethan, 11. (CNS)
At this evening’s Easter Vigil Mass at the Vatican, Heidi Sierras will be baptized, confirmed and receive first Communion from Pope Benedict XVI.
Register subscribers can get acquainted with the California mom of four and the story of her conversion in this article by Tim Drake, published in our April 12-18 issue.
Tim’s article is a reminder that while there’s plenty of free content here... READ MORE
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