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Triduum / Easter
April 5 - 8, 2012

Readings:
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday



Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, S. J.

Holy Thursday/
Good Friday
And it was a long road in another sense. Betrayal, humiliation...

Easter Vigil/Easter
This is the balance-point of all time.
..

In Exile

Ron Rolheiser, OMI

Holy Thursday
We should be on our knees washing each others' feet
..

Good Friday everyone else is on trial except Jesus...

Easter
Jesus' tomb was empty, people could touch him, he ate food with them, he was not a ghost.

 

Student Reflections

Emily Clark

Easter
Jesus rose from the dead! People don’t do that. As Christians, we say it like it is no big deal, but it is a big deal.

Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Holy Thursday/
Good Friday

What a wild love it is that does these things, that suffers these things!

Easter
If all we had was the joy St. Francis describes, our courage might fail us in this life.

The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Easter
We do not deny or turn away from the evils that surround us: the wars that have killed some 100 million people in our (last) century...

Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Holy Thursday
"Seeing the blood, I will pass over you.”

Good Friday
Why is Jesus the perfect mediator?

Easter Vigil
All creation started with a word from God...

Easter
Their hearts were burning when he opened the scriptures...

A Poem
to Sit With

J. Janda

Holy Thursday
Your voice
has blessed
my day

Good Friday
outstretched arms
were
His only posture