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In the garden for Easter

By Elizabeth Foss
On Easter Tuesday morning, it sleeted. It wasn’t the dramatic, wind-whipped kind of storm that rattles the windows and announces itself with authority, but a softer, almost hesitant sleet.
4/16/26
Reading Time 3 min

The paschal candle’s meaning

By Lucia A. Silecchia
Several springs ago, I came to the Easter Vigil Mass with the joyous anticipation of Easter muted a bit.
4/16/26
Reading Time 3 min

The peace of Easter

By Fr. Joseph M. Rampino
“Peace be with you.” These words of Jesus, spoken to the Apostles after his Resurrection, capture for us exactly the spirit with which we can and should experience this Easter season.
4/11/26
Reading Time 3 min

Why was the stone removed?

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
“Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb.” I have a question for you. Why was the stone removed from the tomb?
4/4/26
Reading Time 3 min

Joy as a daily discipline

By Christina Capecchi
Easter gets the short end of the stick. That’s what author Laura Kelly Fanucci concluded. Any Catholic can tell you what the 40 days of Lent entail, rattling off the terms: praying, fasting and almsgiving.
4/2/26
Reading Time 3 min

Easter is the answer

By Elizabeth Foss
We have grown accustomed to the posture of searching. We hunch over our devices, thumbs moving or entire hands stretched to reach for language.
4/2/26
Reading Time 4 min

‘Perfect’ moments

By Lucia A. Silecchia
Due to a happy confluence of events, I recently found myself in Rome for both work and pleasure — along with thousands of other visitors who, as always, filled the lively streets of this ancient city.
4/2/26
Reading Time 3 min

Palm Sunday

By Fr. Jack Peterson, YA
In order for this week to be different from others, in order for it to be holy, we must sacrifice other good things in order to give more time and attention to our Savior who surrendered his life in loving obedience to the Father for the purpose of redeeming the whole world and setting us free from every one of our sins.
3/28/26
Reading Time 3 min

Laetare Benefit supports Dominican sisters

By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
Laetare Sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent, when the church allows a moment of joy amid the penitential season — might seem an unlikely occasion for a fundraising gala. In fact, it is the perfect one.
3/26/26
Reading Time 3 min

Living like Lazarus

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
March 22 — Jn 11:1-45 Imagine what it would have been like to be Lazarus in the days following our Sunday Gospel reading, wherein Jesus raised you from the dead. It’s one of my favorite things to ponder. 
3/21/26
Reading Time 4 min

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