We emerge from the Holy Week journey this year as we emerge from the winter of the pandemic. We read the Easter story with familiar joy. Yes! The Lord is risen indeed! 

By Grace Van Note, a senior public relations major from Chicago   For every year as long as I have been alive, my parents, my Godparents and whomever else we invite, get together to celebrate Passover. Every year come rain or shine we celebrated. I remember one year when I was a child I forced … Keep reading »

But beyond that refracted horizon looms a feast of health, hope and healing. Deep darkness, with the promise of boundless light.

God, by taking human nature upon God’s self – living in poverty and dying in shame and torment – has earned the right to ask us to hold on a little longer until morning comes…until resurrection.

In the parable of the sower, Christ gives us an illustration of what happens if our seeds of faith are not planted in the fertile soil where our roots can run deep.