About this episode
Msgr. Don Fischer reflects on the significance of Easter Sunday amidst the challenges of a pandemic.
Pastoral Reflections 4-5-26 - Easter Sunday Msgr. Don Fischer Download Original Airdate: April 12, 2020 Acts 10:34a, 37-43 | Colossians 3:1-4 | John 20:1-9 Oh God, who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature and still more wonderfully restored it, grant, we pray, that we who share in this divinity may share it with those that we are called to serve, and we ask this through Christ our Lord, amen. Every time I proclaim the liturgy of the word for you and pick a song that I think amplifies what I want to say, I get to this moment where I feel a kind of intimacy with you, and what I want, and where I think that intimacy comes from, is an inner desire we all share, we all have, of wanting to place something in another person, to awaken something there that would bear fruit. The word for that is compassion, love, understanding, and it’s at the heart of this thing we call our Christian faith, the ability to be a source of life to one another. And so what I want to talk about is the elephant in the room, in a sense. I know that we’re all dealing with the same thing, a pandemic. It’s a kind of darkness that’s…
People in this episode
Host: Msgr. Don Fischer
Topics covered
- Easter
- Christian faith
- compassion
- pandemic
- spirituality
Keywords
- Easter Sunday
- Christianity
- spirituality
- pandemic
- compassion
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Acts 10:34a, 37-43, Colossians 3:1-4, John 20:1-9
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