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Category: Easter
Easter Wednesday – What Is Hope?
Today’s Easter poem from Education for Justice is by the Brazilian Theologian Rubem Alves. What Is Hope? What is hope? It is a presentiment that imagination is more real and reality less real than it looks. It is a hunch that the overwhelming brutality… Continue Reading “Easter Wednesday – What Is Hope?”
Easter Tuesday – A Better Resurrection
Today’s Poem from Education for Justice is by Christina Rosetti. A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell… Continue Reading “Easter Tuesday – A Better Resurrection”
Easter Monday – When Death Comes
Today’s Easter poem from Education for Justice is by a favorite poet of many: Mary Oliver. When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and… Continue Reading “Easter Monday – When Death Comes”
Happy Easter! The Death of Death
Happy Easter to You!! I have received so many grateful comments for the poems shared here during the Season of Lent. Easter is such a glorious season. So it would be a shame to stop the poetry now! The site, Education for Justice, has… Continue Reading “Happy Easter! The Death of Death”
Ascension Thursday
Here in the U.S. we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension on Sunday. Nonetheless, I still see Thursday listed as an option on the USCCB website, and our Psalters still show the Ascension as a Thursday feast. So I say, let’s celebrate twice! It’s… Continue Reading “Ascension Thursday”
We Continue to Give Thanks
From Psalm 118 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. The joyful shout of victory in the tents of the just.
We Give Thanks this Easter and Always
From Psalm 8 we read: Give thanks to the LORD, for God is good, for God’s mercy endures forever. Let the house of Israel say, “God’s mercy endures forever.” Let those who fear the LORD say, “God’s mercy endures forever.”
Peace Be with You
We hear Jesus say in Thursday’s reading from the Gospel of Luke: The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this,… Continue Reading “Peace Be with You”
They Must have been Out-of-their-Minds with Excitment
When I went to Musée d’Orsa in Paris I noticed this wonderful painting of the Apostles Peter and John running to the tomb after Mary Magdalene had brought them the news of the Risen Christ. Their body language and expressions show anticipation, joy, and… Continue Reading “They Must have been Out-of-their-Minds with Excitment”
Easter Joy
The Psalms this week are full of Easter Joy! Tuesday’s is from Psalm 33. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Alleluia. Upright is the word of the LORD, and all God’s works are trustworthy. God loves justice and right; of… Continue Reading “Easter Joy”
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