Tag: Resurrection

If we are truly witnesses to His Resurrection from the dead, wouldn’t we be eager to courageously and zealously share this truth with the whole world? Is it enough to keep Him all to ourselves? Let us remind each other that Jesus commands us to go out and make disciples of all nations.

We are people of the Resurrection, and our hymn is “Christ is risen. Truly He is risen!”

Hope, founded on faith and expressed in acts of love, even when hoping is hard: that’s Easter hope, writes Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for his Easter message this year.

Wednesday of Passion Week in the Maronite Liturgical Calendar is a celebration of a rarely understood Rite, found in the middle of a week filled with penance, pain, sorrow, suffering, darkness, awaiting, and finally, joy.

Sandwiched between the Season of Epiphany and the Season of Great Lent, the three weeks of commemoration, in the Maronite Lectionary, focus on those who have departed this world after living out their baptismal calling.

I recently read an article which said that heaven, where souls go to enjoy God forever after their death and purification, will be on earth when Christ comes again to inaugurate the new heaven and new earth. I thought heaven was in heaven. What are we to believe?

Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP's Homily for Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord at St Mary's Basilica, Sydney, on 31 March 2024.

The disciples didn’t believe on Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, and most of the following week. If you find yourself doubting, remember that because of the disciples’ doubts we have a great gift: an account of a real, solid, incarnate, resurrected Jesus, writes Philippa Martyr

Several years ago, we were invited onto a TV breakfast show to talk about marriage. We are all familiar with the format; people interviewed on couches with a polite live studio audience. It’s light and airy entertainment; sort of fairy floss for the mind.

Although the Shroud of Turin once seemed to be discredited by carbon dating in the 1980s, new research has cast doubt on the carbon dating and produced dramatic evidence that the Shroud confirms the resurrection of Jesus. I spent five years researching my recently-published book Riddles of the Shroud: Questions Science Can’t Answer, and the evidence suggests the Shroud covered Jesus at the point of resurrection.

A Statement from the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP https://youtu.be/D0aqjclMpLo In many ways contemporary societies are deeply divided. Our politics are often polarised...

There’s no denying the delight of biting into your first hot cross bun of the year. Yet there’s the debate of when to start eating them. Is it as soon as the shops start selling them? Is it Ash Wednesday? Is it Good Friday? Is it Easter Sunday?