Second Sunday of Easter – April 27, 2025
Ten-year-old Laura Lentz’s father examined the letter she was writing to her favorite cousin. “All you do is write about yourself,” the future author recalled him saying.
He placed another paper in front of me. … Look out the window and write what you see. … I began my letter again: The crab apple tree never bloomed until we buried our cat underneath it this year. Now the white blossoms look like snow clinging to the branches in springtime.
Freeing the Turkeys
Filled with flowers, smelling of chrism, and reverberating with Alleluias, our churches are tempting, comfortable places to lock ourselves in and savor Easter’s joy with one another. But what good is Christ’s resurrection if we don’t get outside of ourselves and “write what we see”?
The world needs to hear the life-altering perspective that the sacraments give to those who believe, so much so that we have a name for this new perception: mystagogy.
The world needs to hear the life-altering perspective that the sacraments give to those who believe, so much so that we have a name for this new perception: mystagogy. Thomas shows us how: Look for the wounds, listen for the community’s witness, then tell what you see.
Water gives birth to eternal life. Oil anoints royal heirs. A taste of bread and a sip of wine supply the wedding feast. And grief and anguish are not the story’s end. Wherever God’s people dare to look with love at the world’s suffering, there Christ will be in their midst showing them something new.
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