What If You Had Discovered the Empty Tomb?
Whenever the Easter Season rolls around, it gets me wondering how I would have reacted if I’d been the one to discover the empty Tomb instead of Mary Magdalen.Â
Whenever the Easter Season rolls around, it gets me wondering how I would have reacted if I’d been the one to discover the empty Tomb instead of Mary Magdalen.Â
Even if you can’t be there physically, you can observe the services spiritually. Granted, it’s not the same. But, it’s better than missing out entirely. Here’s how.
Between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, we have the possibility to spiritually retrace the steps of our Lord.
I loved the previous two manuals published by Tan – Manual for Marian Devotion and Manual for Eucharistic Adoration – and was not disappointed with this latest in the series.
St. Patrick’s life is quite remarkable, and his circumstances make me think about today’s growing problem of human trafficking. He himself was a victim of this nightmare that has destroyed – and keeps destroying – the lives of defenseless women and men, most of whom are very young.
As we drove, I saw them – companies that before hand had been nothing more than a label on a device or an name in an advertisement. And in the middle of a web of expressways and a colony of commercial buildings was a place of peace and holiness that was impenetrable.
I’m headed to Santa Clara, California to visit Our Lady of Peace Shrine. It’s the only major Marian Shrine on the West Coast between Our Lady of Sorrows Shrine in Portland, Oregon, (over 700 miles to the north), and the famous Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, (over 2,300 miles to the south).