Easter 2020 Tag

EASTER 2020 in the time of the coronavirus, Maria Fischer • A recycled Easter candle from last year, in my home shrine; an LED flame candle with an Easter cross attached (for the first time in my long life, it’s acceptable) for a relative in a nursing home that I haven’t been able to visit for weeks. A bottle of holy water found in some corner of the house. And the most important thing on this Easter night of 2020: a candle in the window of my apartment, to beRead More
EASTER 2020 – HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS AT THE EASTER VIGIL  • Easter Vigil in an empty St. Peter’s Basilica. In a reference to the current crisis of the coronavirus, Pope Francis asked to maintain hope in the face of what he called “the darkest hour”. Darkness does not have the last word. The light of the Resurrection comes out, with the candles lit in St. Peter’s Basilica and in thousands of windows. Easter 2020 is the right to hope. It is a sending like the one theRead More