Tag: joy
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Does Easter Ask Too Much…?
“Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts, sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they acclaim…” So concludes every Easter Preface in the third edition of the Roman Missal, an ebullient departure from the more succinct conclusion of…
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After Easter………What’s Next?
Is Easter a terminus ad quem or terminus a quo for we who believe? If the latter, Easter reveals the lens through which we view all of reality, our destiny as human beings, and why God so passionately desires a relationship with us at all.