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It feels slightly gauche to talk about the Crucifixion during the octave of Easter, but it's worth noticing how frequently Good Friday is referenced in the readings this week, and in the earliest proclamations of the Easter message. In St.

This is Ishtar: Pronounced "Easter." Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (like the egg and the bunny) were and still are fertility and sex symbols (or did you actually think eggs and bunnies had anything to do with the resurrection?).

First, the early Christians had nothing to gain and everything to lose in lying about Jesus' resurrection. As I learned from my mentor and friend Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, this kind of jeopardy makes for the most credible witness. St. Paul understood this.

Biblical skeptics often assert one or more of the following things regarding an event like the parting of the Red Sea: that it's impossible, because miracles are impossible; that its seemingly "mythical" or fantastic character proves that the Old Testament is historically unreliable; and that a natural explanation is not to be had, either.

Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you" ( Today's feast of the Divine Mercy offers us a modern glimpse of the spirit of the Christian liturgy in its most ancient roots, and the insights of Christian theology at its most telling and profound depths.