Easter Reflection from Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Sunday morning came, and it was one of calm, like the sleep of innocents, and the clear, benign air seemed almost as if it had been stirred by angels' wings. Mary walked in the garden and someone near her spoke a word, and pronounced it longingly, wistfully, in that touching and unforgettable voice which had called her so many times: 'Mary.' And to this one and only word, she made an answer, a word and only one: 'Rabboni.' And as she fell at His knees in the dewy grass and clasped in her hands those bare feet, she saw two scars, two red-lined marks of nails - for Christ was now walking in the glory of His new Easter morn.

"That was the first Easter Day. Centuries have whirled away since, and on this new Easter Day as I turn from that garden to the altar, I behold placed over the tabernacle, on this Resurrection Day, the image, not of a Risen Savior, but the image of a dying one, to teach me that Christ lives over again in His Church, and that the Church, like Christ, not only lives, not only dies, but always rises from the dead. . . ."

A recent post in The Catholic Thing presented an Easter reflection from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

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The Catholic Thing: By Hook and by Crook (12 APR 20)