We have always asked how it was that the pious women were the first to see the Risen One and to be given the task of taking the news to the apostles. This was the surest way to make the resurrection hardly credible at all. More »

Jesus, their Master and friend, was gone, the victim of a cruel and seemingly purposeless death. All their rising hopes were inexplicably shattered. Each apostle had struggled to understand who Jesus really was and what he meant to accomplish. More »

Golgotha is the Greek transcription given by Matthew (27:33, Mark (15:22), and John (19:17) of an Aramaic word explained by them to mean “skull.” More »

Imagine you were walking down the street with a large sum of money in your pocket —more money than you ever had before. What would you do? Would you forget about it, acting as if nothing were different from any other day? More »

Why did Jesus die for our sins? The answer was like a flash of sunlight illuminating the faith of the Church: because he loved us! More »

Suffering is an inescapable part of life. Whether it involves the minor bumps and bruises of daily living or deep traumas like terminal illness, sudden widowhood, or a nasty divorce, suffering touches all of our lives. More »

We pulled into the driveway of our “new” house on moving-in day, and my heart sank. I hadn’t remembered that it looked so bad. More »

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel to the Holy Land? How much meaning Lent and Easter would have if we and our families could walk where Jesus suffered, died, was buried, and rose from the dead! More »