Spirit News - April 17

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He is Risen! Alleluia!

We are in the second week of our 50 days of Feasting after our 40 days of Fasting.

Some more apologetics articles this week - including more on addressing popular (albeit not well thought out) claims that Jesus is just a pagan myth.

Also a star studded lineup of Saints - including a recently canonized mother & doctor who gave her life for her child.

Don't forget on the Events Page :

The Ladies Guild Scholarship for Highschool Students
The Ladies Guild Garage Sale the week of April 25-28
Our Social and Service Group Fair is coming April 22 & 23 (THIS WEEK)
Vacation Bible School Registration is Now Open
And More!

As always, check out our Events Page below that is updated weekly so you can know what is coming up.

Here's this week's update with what's going on with the Parish.

Monday,

April 17

St. Benedict Joseph Labre - "Beggar of Rome"

Tuesday,

April 18

Blessed James Oldo - Riches to Rags, Complacency to True Love

Wednesday,

April 19

St. Gianna Beretta Molla - Doctor, Mother, Pro-Life Martyr

Thursday,

April 20

St. Conrad of Parzham - Comrade of Children and the Poor

Friday,

April 21

St. Anselm - Indifferent Young Man to Bishop who Fought Slavery

Saturday,

April 22

St. Adalbert of Prague - Brought Germans, Poles, Czechs and Hungarians to Christ

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Sunday,

April 23

Second Sunday of Easter

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Don't Waste Your Cross this Easter

So you’ve got on the one side an Aztec sacrifice, and on the other side you’ve got the Last Supper. Those are both depictions of sacrifice, but I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to realize those are radically different understandings of sacrifice.

What’s some mechanism by which Christ’s death on the cross back in the first century somehow does something for me today?

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God gave you a conscience so that you feel bad and have a warning when you sin. That's good.

But Satan wants to pervert that.

No, Easter Is Not a Pagan Holiday

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?).

How We Got Where We Are

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Skeptics will argue that Jesus' resurrection is just one more instance of the dying-and-rising-god motif prevalent in the religions of the ancient Near East. The Scottish social anthropologist ...

Those Who Claim Reason Sometimes Fail to Use It Well

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