Easter

Among Women 221: Bragging on Jesus – with Danielle Bean

Join us for this latest episode of Among Women for an  important and fundamental conversation about Jesus who loves us — and what it means to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. This is the bedrock — the reason for our faith as Catholics. Jesus once asked his apostles: “Who do you say that I am?”…

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Offer a bookclub for your girlfriends and walk closer with Jesus with… Walk in Her Sandals

It’s here! I’ve shared about this book before its release, but now you can get it in your hands! Its a great book to share with the women you know, whether through church, or right around your kitchen table. Walk in Her Sandals: Experiencing Christ’s Passion through the Eyes of Women  is a labor of love…

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Announcing a new book for women! #WalkInHerSandals — Join 10 women (including me!) for a walk with Jesus!

What’s this book about? Here’s a summary from Amazon: What if you could have been a witness to the events of the last days of Jesus’ life–walking with him as he entered Jerusalem, observing his crucifixion, and embracing him on Easter? What would you have thought and done? How would you have been changed? Walk…

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Keep the Joy of the Easter Octave Alive!

Easter is not just a day, but a season! We’re in the middle of the Easter Octave… on our way to Mercy Sunday! Turn up the volume on your favorite hymns and rejoice! Here’s one that moves me! Or that oldie accapella one I posted from last Sunday, “Be Ye Glad”… Oh yes, I love…

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“O death, where is thy victory?”

“O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15: 55-57 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, …

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This makes me think… “Let your heart be an altar…”

Paul says: I appeal to you by the mercy of God to present your bodies as a sacrifice, living and holy. The prophet said the same thing: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but you have prepared a body for me. Each of us is called to be both a sacrifice to God and…

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This makes me think… God’s desire is to be loved rather than feared.

I appeal to you by the mercy of God. This appeal is made by Paul, or rather, it is made by God through Paul, because of God’s desire to be loved rather than feared, to be a father rather than a Lord. God appeals to us in his mercy to avoid having to punish us…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… raising the bar on the tradition of Easter eggs

Yes, this video is in German, but its pretty amazing none the less! These folks seem eggs-tatic over them! It does beg the question regarding the rain-proofing of these eggs!

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This makes me think… about how the Resurrection of Jesus changes human existence

The Christian faith stands or falls with the truth of the testimony that Christ is risen from the dead. … Only if Jesus is risen has anything really new occurred that changes the world and the situation of mankind. Then he becomes the criterion on which we can rely. For then God has truly revealed…

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Alleluia, Alleluia! Happy Easter!

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud the might King’s triumph! Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her, ablaze with light from her eternal King, let all corners of earth be glad, knowing an end to gloom…

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