Good lay people get high blood pressure, wind up super cranky and try to avoid thinking about how very bad things have gotten.
This reminds me of the fictional Bishop Fatty McButterpants, from the blogosphere. I wonder when he'll be made Cardinal...lol
I am glad to see Pope Francis has come to realize the heinous effects of low birth rates, calling on Italian couples to be open to life. That's quite a reversal from a statement he made early in his Pontificate when he decried those who "breed like rabbits"!
I hope he is successful in his appeal for the unification of the date of Easter, something that Patriarch Bartholomew I has already expressed his support for during this year's Holy Week.
"Last July, he set up the "Commission of the New Martyrs -- Witnesses of the Faith" in the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to draw up a list of Christians killed for their faith since the year 2000. "The martyrs, coming as they do from different Christian traditions, are also seeds of unity, expressions of the ecumenism of blood," the pope wrote in his proclamation of the holy year. "I greatly hope that the Jubilee will also include ecumenical celebrations as a way of highlighting the richness of the testimony of these martyrs." I am considering the hypothesis that Saint Tarcisius could be celebrated in April through a liturgical development on the memory of Christian martyrs.
Links to official announcement of the 2025 Year Of Jubilee. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-05/pope-proclaims-jubilee-may-hope-fill-our-days.html
I believe that the fact that all major Christian branches (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant) will celebrate Easter on the same Sunday in 2025 has great significance. Come Lord Jesus!
I was looking when is Passover in 2025. It starts April 12 and last night is April 20- Easter Sunday. The last night of Passover is when Jews remember God parting the Sea and destroying pharaoh. In a way Easter is God opening the door to Heaven - parting /tearing the veil of the sanctuary to allow us to escape death and to vanquish the enemy of death. I agree all very significant!
