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Beyond Easter Sunday: Making the Resurrection Real in Daily Motherhood

By: Laura Vazquez Santos April 5th, 2026

Laura Vazquez Santos explores how the Church’s fifty-day Easter season invites mothers to move from celebration to formation. Every year, I enter the Triduum with holy ambition. I imagine dim lights, whispered prayers, and children gazing reverently at a crucifix. What I usually get is my 6-year-old asking for crackers every 5 minutes during the Gospel at Mass or my preschooler sword-fighting with last year’s blessed palm. I admit that getting through the Easter season can be both logistically challenging and spiritually testing. In years past, and especially after my reversion to the Faith, I placed an unrealistic pressure on myself as a mother to get everything right each Easter, especially as I feared my children would be more enticed by the celebration of the Easter Bunny than by the amazing reality that is the Resurrection.

Easter: A Gift to All Believers

By: Colleen Mallette April 20th, 2025

What a glorious time of year this is: celebrating Jesus’ Resurrection after experiencing the sorrow of Lent. For forty days, we wallowed in sadness as we walked through not only the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ but also our own struggles with temptation as we tried to unite our little sacrifices with His. By devoting extra time to prayer and church services, fasting, and giving alms, we fight Satan just as Jesus did during His forty days in the desert. I was blessed to spend time this Lent studying St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, which were almost exactly in sync with our liturgical readings. As I read and meditated on three different Gospel readings each week, I was touched more than ever by really contemplating the events and how they applied to my life.

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