
April 10
"He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.”
-St. Faustina

April 10
"He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.”
-St. Faustina
Pope Leo XVI’s first Urbi et Orbi was devoted to calling upon the world to embrace the peace of Christ who freed us all from the “dominion of evil,”, not a peace “imposed by force.”
In short, metaphysics is the philosophical study of being and knowing. As this site explains, “if you have ever contemplated your own existence in the universe, you were dabbling in metaphysics.”

April 9
“Now let the heavens be joyful; let earth her song begin;
Let the round world keep triumph, and all that is therein!
Let all things seen and unseen their notes of gladness blend,
For Christ the Lord hath risen, our Joy that hath no end!”
-St. John of Damascus
Although I was a baptized Catholic I did not stay the course as regards church teaching and obedient living.

April 8
“Glory be to You, who laid your Cross as a bridge over death that souls might pass over it from the dwelling of the dead to dwelling of life.”
-St. Ephrem the Syrian

April 7
“Christ’s resurrection is the strength, the secret of Christianity... the new effort of evangelization can begin only from a renewed experience of this Mystery, accepted in faith and witnessed to in life.”
-St. John Paul II

April 6
Easter Monday
“Tis the spring of souls today: Christ hath burst His prison;
And from three days’ sleep in death as a Sun hath risen.
All the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying
From His light, to whom we give laud and praise undying.
Now the queen of seasons, bright with the day of splendor,
With the royal feast of feasts comes its joy to render!”
-St. John of Damascus

April 5
Easter Sunday
It is Easter morning.
Christ unwinds the burial bands
and lays them by:
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