Victory, Part Two

Acts 10: 34, 37-43 (The 1st reading from the Mass on Easter Day) Then Peter began to speak:   “You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing goodContinue reading “Victory, Part Two”

Victory, Part One

In the first reflection in this series, I recounted a very intimate experience of the Passion that the Holy Spirit was kind enough to grant me.  I closed the main body of that writing with the words, “He (Jesus) has made my hope for eternal salvation possible!  This is the Victory of Easter!” As IContinue reading “Victory, Part One”

Links Between Easter and Passover

Exodus 12:1-13 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,  “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If any household is too smallContinue reading “Links Between Easter and Passover”