Even though most of us like the light, the gospel notes a sense in which people seem to prefer darkness to light.

Catherine advised her confessor to "Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee."

His resurrection rolled away more boulders than the one blocking his tomb; it also flung wide the doors to the future...

The apostles went back to their roots, to resume their work as fishermen. But their lives had been transformed...

God's plans are enmeshed in human existence, and are being carried out across the sweep of history...

Emmaus suggests that if we travel life's journey with others, sharing our faith and our fears, Christ will be with us..

It is notable how the Easter stories convey the gradual recognition of Jesus, after his resurrection...

The act of divine power that raised Jesus from the dead was already predicted in an inspired psalm of David, a thousand years before...

I will bring you to the heights of heaven. With my own right hand I will raise you up, and I will show you the eternal Father...

Consummated, completed, achieved to the last degree, engraved forever on the memory of mankind...