A blessed Triduum and Easter to all our readers! Every year around Holy Week, the publishers of America’s popular reading material let loose a volley of blasphemies against our Lord’s Resurrection. Citing one or another perfidious “noted scholar,” the glossy-covered … Continue reading
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Seattle School Bans Term “Easter Egg,” New PC Label Is “Spring Sphere”
The Fundamentalists accuse English speaking Catholics of invoking some German goddess of Spring named “Oestre” in calling the Feast of the Resurrection “Easter.” This is, of course, not true. In Christian England the word “Easter” was always used in reference … Continue reading
The Women, The Apostles, and the Tomb: Easter in Review
On Easter Sunday, during its Octave, and on the first Sunday after Easter, the Roman Missal presents us with a different Gospel reading every day. All of these relate what happened on the day of Our Lord’s triumphant Resurrection. The … Continue reading