My Lord & My God!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Sunday, May 01, 2011
Doubting Thomas, Carl Heinrich Bloch
He Is Not Here
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Saturday, April 30, 2011
The Three Marys at the Tomb, Lorenzo Monaco
Haste!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Friday, April 29, 2011
The Disciples Peter & John Running to the Sepulcher Easter Morning
Easter Procession
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, April 28, 2011
Rejoice!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Our parish does First Communion on Easter. In his homily Sunday morning our pastor talked about why they do this: because they want to form a connection in the children’s minds and hearts between the Resurrection and the Eucharist.
He told a story of a little boy in the first communion class a few years ago who bounded up to him before Mass and shouted, “Father, Father! I can’t believe I get to receive... READ MORE
Joyous Resurrection
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Easter
George Herbert
Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him may’st rise:
That, as his death calcinèd thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.
Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
With all thy art,
The cross taught all wood to resound his name
Who bore the same.
His stretchèd sinews taught... READ MORE
Stronger Far Than Death
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Monday, April 25, 2011
The Incarnation & Passion
Henry Vaughn
Lord! when thou didst thyself undress,
Laying by thy robes of glory,
To make us more, thou wouldst be less,
And becam’st a woeful story.
To put on clouds instead of light,
And clothe the morning star with dust,
Was a translation of such height
As, but in thee, was ne’er expressed;
Brave worms, and earth! that thus could have
A God enclosed within your cell,
Your... READ MORE
Resurrexit!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Sunday, April 24, 2011
Seven Stanzas at Easter
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.
The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved... READ MORE
The Most Real Thing Ever
Posted by Lynn Wehner in Faith on Friday, December 17, 2010
Our week following Gaudete Sunday — a week celebrating joy. Yet many people I love are suffering, trying to see through to the other side of their pain and experience even a glimpse of the joy that is intended to mark this third week of Advent. This quote in Magnificat this week has stayed with me:
“We are not asked to put our faith in words alone, but in all the signs that Jesus worked and works... READ MORE
The Physics Of Easter
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Monday, April 05, 2010
A dear friend introduced me to this lovely John Updike poem in college.
I have loved it ever since.
Seven Stanzas For Easter
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the
molecules re-knit, the amino-acides rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled... READ MORE
