For some people there is an empty feeling this Easter that comes with empty churches, spring dresses left unsold at department stores, no dinner out with family and no hugs from Grandma. “We are ...

There are not many things I get up early for. If the alarm clock goes off before 5 a.m., I am not particularly happy about it. However, there are four rare things that I’m eager to get up early for — ...

Emptiness isn’t usually something to get excited about. Unless it’s Easter morning. Because in the empty tomb, Christians encounter the miracle of our faith. And in that moment, everything changes.

Not so long ago, Easter Sunday would find many — if not most — American families breaking out their best clothes and perhaps posing for a picture before heading off to church. Sure, there were colored ...

Sunday, April 12, is Easter Sunday/the Resurrection of the Lord. Mass readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2,16-17, 22-23; 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-9. In his novel entitled Duma Key, the ...

Last year’s Easter celebration felt more like one, unending Good Friday. The light and hope that Easter usually offered was eclipsed by the darkness and despair the disciples experienced the day Jesus ...

One year ago on Monday, hundreds of millions of people the world round reacted with horror to images of the cathedral church of Our Lady of Paris burning. She did not collapse, as some feared she ...

Just as Jesus’ tomb was empty on the third day after His crucifixion, churches across the country were yesterday empty as Easter Sunday was celebrated. Normally, such Sundays would have attracted ...

Today’s message: Less is more. This Easter is less about pomp and more about circumstance. It’s less about getting all gussied up and going to a large gathering at church and more about staying home ...

The empty tomb: That’s what the mourning women close to Jesus, and the apostles Peter and John, still shattered by the horror of Good Friday, discovered that bright Sunday dawn in Jerusalem. Expecting ...

Today is Easter. Easter is the highest festival of the Christian faith as it is the day that Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Easter is the centerpiece of ...

In April of 2019—exactly a year ago next week—flames shot through the roof of Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral. Before long, the dread became the reality—there would be no Easter at Notre-Dame. We could ...