I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I typically add a midday prayer to my usual Morning and Evening Prayer. I decide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 21."' He has risen.' God, the fact that Jesus is risen should lift my head, my heart and my attitude. Help me to live today as if ...

One of the most dramatic moments in the celebration of the Easter Vigil occurs just before the proclamation of the Gospel. The Alleluia, silent for more than six weeks, is solemnly intoned three times ...

Traditionally the first six lines are chanted ... On the second Sunday of Easter, I found myself sitting in front of a young couple and their two sons at Mass. The 5-year-old did quite well, but the 2 ...

After Lent’s forty days of preparation for Easter, it would be anticlimatic to celebrate the feast of Easter for only one day. Jesus is risen! He is alive! Holy Mother Church in her wisdom ensures ...

The tulips are out. Baseball has begun. I've just made it through another Lenten journey and am now in the joyous Eastertide. As it has been for many years, the journey was an easy transition. However ...

In November 1986, St. John Paul II visited various places in the South Pacific. In a message he gave during the Sunday Angelus prayers at Adelaide, Australia, the Pope said, "We are an Easter People ...

There was candy. There was singing and there were flowers, and kids in bright new outfits. There was Jesus coming up out of a cave like, “I don’t think so!” and there were kids home from college.

Yet some events on the Church calendar, like Easter Sunday, inspire prayers and blessings with a common focal point, such as encouraging believers to "raise your joys and triumphs high." Easter ...