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2025-04-21T08:07:36-05:00

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RIP Pope Francis – History Remembered Easter Week 2025

Last updated on: April 21, 2025 at 8:07 am By Mark Wilson

We end Holy week with the end of the Paschal Triduum and move into Easter week. I scrolled through FB this morning only to find this surprising news. We start off Easter Monday April 21 with the death of our beloved pontiff Pope Francis. Someone on Scott Hawn’s FB said… He died well on Easter Monday… he visited the prisoners on Holy Thursday, gave a good homily on Good Friday and his last blessing at Vatican City yesterday. Rest in... Read more

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2025-03-24T23:23:53-05:00

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The Easter Celebration Makes No Sense, Unless

Last updated on: March 24, 2025 at 11:23 pm By Mark Wilson

The Easter celebration that oodles of Christians celebrate every year around this time, makes no sense. Unless… The disciples of Christ, His devout followers, make the claim that saw him alive and walking around after he was roughed up by the religious and secular leaders of the land several days before and were giddy, excited, in awe, unnerved, and even scared by this event. Trembling and bewildered, the women said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. -Mark 16:8 You... Read more

2025-03-24T02:56:58-05:00

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What Kind of Tree Did Christ Hang On?

Last updated on: March 24, 2025 at 2:56 am By Mark Wilson

For Your Edification on this Holy Good Friday Here is a passage from What Jesus Saw from the Cross (1930, 1948) by A. G. Sertillanges That book is in the public domain according to Internet Archive. What kind of tree was privileged to provide the wood upon which the world’s most precious fruit should hang? It is not certain. In all probability it was a coniferous tree. A legend fixes a valley to the southwest of the city, belonging to... Read more

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2025-03-24T03:17:10-05:00

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The Wine and Blood of Christ

Last updated on: March 24, 2025 at 3:17 am By Mark Wilson

In a previous post ‘Mysterious Lives of Christ’, I quoted from LIFE OF CHRIST (1923) by Giovanni Papini That book is in the public domain. Wine and Blood As soon as they had eaten the lamb with the bread and the bitter herb, Jesus filled the common cup for the third time and gave it to the Apostle nearest Him, “Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.” His... Read more

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2025-03-31T03:12:29-05:00

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The History We Remember During The Holy Triduum 2025

Last updated on: March 31, 2025 at 3:12 am By Mark Wilson

Millions of Christians around continue their metaphysical journey to Calvary having traveled from Palm Sunday to Spy Wednesday. Today we enter into the Holy Triduum which is the is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil. It actually closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday which will be covered in the post on Easter Week As Christians take time in this jubilee year to reflect on... Read more

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2025-04-14T10:50:19-05:00

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The History We Remember During Palm Sunday & Holy Week 2025

Last updated on: April 14, 2025 at 10:50 am By Mark Wilson

Millions of Christians around the world will begin the final leg of their metaphysical journey to Calvary this week starting with the liturgical celebration of Passion or Palm Sunday. In this post we travel to Holy or Spy Wednesday. As Christians take time in this jubilee year to reflect on the core of our faith millions of others will not. They won’t go to church services or think deeply about Jesus’s passion. They will continue to release movies, books and... Read more

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2025-03-23T12:11:14-05:00

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Cheap Grace and Other Thoughts of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Last updated on: March 23, 2025 at 12:11 pm By Mark Wilson

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church. 80 years ago he was executed in Flossenbürg concentration camp by hanging at dawn on April 9, 1945, (source Wikipedia) On the anniversary of his death here are some of his thoughts on the Christian life that is perfect for Lent or anytime of the year. Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most... Read more

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2025-04-07T08:14:05-05:00

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So This Is How I’m Going To Die

Last updated on: April 7, 2025 at 8:14 am By Mark Wilson

“So this is how I’m going to die.” These are the words my wife, Kristin Wilson, thought as she was choking on her salad. She hadn’t chewed it correctly and it was lodged in her throat. She couldn’t swallow and she couldn’t cough it up. She couldn’t breath and was starting to feel lightheaded. That is when the thought came to her, “This is how I’m going to die.” And now I am to die. – Daniel 13: 43 She... Read more

Family, Parenting and Religion

2025-03-21T00:32:26-05:00

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Jesus the Greatest of Poets

Last updated on: March 21, 2025 at 12:32 am By Mark Wilson

In a previous post ‘Mysterious Lives of Christ’, I quoted from LIFE OF CHRIST (1923) by Giovanni Papini That book is in the public domain. Here is another passage from this book that you can freely download, and copy, and reuse and do whatever you want with, without restriction as it is once again in the public domain. That is the joy of the public domain and there are lots of good Catholic books forgotten about for years that you... Read more

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2025-03-22T09:27:11-05:00

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Anniversary Of When Prehistoric Monsters Invaded Chicago

Last updated on: March 22, 2025 at 9:27 am By Mark Wilson

April 1 will be remembered by historians and Chicagoans as the day the prehistoric monsters invaded Chicago. It is known as Pesce d’aprile Day in Italian. Plus some other related and nonrelated things happen on that day as well. Click on the links to read the fuller stories of the events of that day. Starting off with memorable events a couple of Happy Birthdays’ are owed to Wallace’s. 1875 – Happy Birthday to Edgar Wallace, British writer of sensational detective,... Read more

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