Easter

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11) Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. In Jerusalem was crowded with many people who had come for the annual Passover celebration in a springtime Sunday. Jesus had spent for traveling through the towns and villages of Palestine. He preached about the kingdom of God and healed the sick. Now the time had come for Him to claim as the Messiah. Jesus knew His mission was almost finished and He warned his…

myself was a direct correlation to whether I was in a relationship or if I was single. Relationships were my idols and I was a worshipper. It is so amazing how God will sometimes use your very sin, your idols, to draw you to Himself. The day was Easter Sunday and I was laying in my bed mourning a broken heart. My latest idol had once again been unable to fill the vast abyss in my heart. A very close friend of mine called me…

In Mexico, Christmas is celebrated from December 12th to January 6th. From December 16th to Christmas Eve, children often perform the 'Posada' processions or Posadas. Posada is Spanish for Inn or Lodging. There are nine Posadas. These celebrate the part of the Christmas story where Joseph and Mary looked for somewhere to stay. For the Posadas, the outside of houses are decorated with evergreens, moss and paper lanterns. In each Posada, children are given candles and a board, with painted clay…

“The Easter Uprising of 1916 has become the foundational myth of the modern Irish state” (Reynolds 36). The actual act itself was impractical and more of a dream than a concrete reality. It was much like the American Revolution to a point. A determined few up against impossible odds against an entire country and her military, but in the long run the poor way that England handled the situation led to the aftermath of the revolt taking hold and giving birth to a political revolution instead (Walsh…

As a Person of God and a member of the Body of Christ through baptism, God calls me to serve others as He served during the incarnation. God calls us to take part in Jesus ' life, death, and resurrection, or the Paschal Mystery, so we can share in Him and experience His life on earth. In addition, as a member of the Church, I am called to demonstrate in all that I do the Marks of the Church: one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Through my service at Field Elementary, I was not only able to…

If you really want to hear about it, you’ll want to know how the old egg got there. I don’t know how it got there and I don’t think anybody ever will. It just showed up. Out of nowhere. Like some magician just plopped it there or something. It wasn’t like the other eggs either, it was big, very big. About 30 times bigger if you ask me. It was a little spotted too. Not like a bold type of spotted though. More muted, a nice kind if spotted. Anyways, it just showed up one day, and what really…

to do their work does not mean that they should be taken out of the regular classroom for help, I believe that if we (students and teachers) wait for all the kids to do their problem they’re working on it will help them feel more intelligent. In Easter cultures…

cultures beneath their own. One of the speakers began his introduction by introducing how Lent came about, and why it is celebrated. Other members from youth group explained and pitched in their ideas about how essentially; Lent is to prepare us for Easter, the resurrection of Jesus. Lent is a time of prayer; each member is expected to pray more often than usual. The most interesting part about Lent, I believe is how each aspect is controlled. The Church does not have time to control every…

Christmas Day and Three Kings Day have a variety of similarities and differences. Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birth in the United States of America, whereas Three Kings Day is not. Los Tres Reyes Magos is the celebration of the three kings coming to give baby jesus gifts. This is celebrated in Spanish Speaking countries, which can include Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. The custom and traditions of the holidays can have multiple similar or different ideas. The similarities can…

Melito of Sardis is thought to have penned a homily called “A Homily on the Passover,” or Peri Pascha. This piece elucidates a christology with several important facets. First, Melito centers Christ as both fully human and fully divine. He writes at length that Jesus, in his christological role, was both temporal and atemporal, finite and infinite, the embodiment of the Father [sic] and the Son [sic]. Further, Jesus, as the Christ, is understood to be a mold-breaker. The mold was the Law to…