It’s Mother’s Day, and I’m remembering my dear beloved Mother. She had such an enormous influence on me, as many mothers do, but the influence I’m referring to is her tremendous musical ability. Her abilities were passed onto me in the forms of my own performance abilities and my abilities in teaching children. I can still hear her singing “Silent Night” with my grandmother so many years ago on their last Christmas together. The sharing of those words was not…..
When I learned the Apostle’s Creed as a teenager in Catechism classes, I really didn’t understand what I was saying. I simply memorized it and tucked it away in my brain for future Sunday services. Now as a 67-year old child of God, I know it is about my faith. Through my baptism, my parents promised to raise me as His child with trust and hope. As an adult, I have tried to expand that trust and hope through my…..
Mary Magdelene and Simon Peter went to the tomb, and the stone had been rolled away. They carefully entered the tomb, and Christ’s body was not there. Only His death wrap was laying on the pier. They cried and shouted, “He is risen!” Fearing soldiers would come and arrest them, they rushed off to tell the disciples the good news! “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” He is risen! …..