My Mother's Father Was From Sligo, And He Used To Say It Was The Hardest Thing In The World To Find A Man Alive In Dublin Who Wasn't In The Gpo During The Easter Rising. Twenty Brave Men Marched Into That Post Office, He Said, And Thirty Thousand Marched Out.
One Of The Elements In The Film That Really Fascinated Me Was Not To Look At The World In Bi-polar Terms Of Us Vs Them Or East Vs West, Which Was A By-product Of The Cold War.
It Would Be So Nice To Have The Luxury Just To Laze. So Nice Not To Have To Always Get Up And Get Dressed For Some Occasion. Always Having To Move From Here To There, Where Everything Is Scheduled And Even Having Lunch With My Kids On Their Easter Break Has To Be Slotted In. Maybe One Day...
'easter' Is A Movable Event, Calculated By The Relative Positions Of Sun And Moon, An Impossible Way Of Fixing Year By Year The Anniversary Of A Historical Event, But A Very Natural And Indeed Inevitable Way Of Calculating A Solar Festival. These Changing Dates Do Not Point To The History Of A Man, But To The Hero Of A Solar Myth.
I Know You Have Not Thought About It. Italians Always Act Without Thinking, It's The Glory And The Downfall Of Your Civilisation. A German Plans A Month In Advance What His Bowel Movements Will Be At Easter, And The British Plan Everything In Retrospect, So It Always Looks As Though Everything Occurred As They Intended. The French Plan Everything Whilst Appearing To Be Having A Party, And The Spanish...well, God Knows. Anyway, Pelagia Is Greek, That's My Point.
In Your Easter Bonnet, With All The Frills Upon It, You'll Be The Grandest Lady In The Easter Parade.
Faith In The Resurrection Of Jesus Says That There Is A Future For Every Human Being; The Cry For Unending Life Which Is A Part Of The Person Is Indeed Answered... God Exists: That Is The Real Message Of Easter. Anyone Who Even Begins To Grasp What This Means Also Knows What It Means To Be Redeemed.
We Celebrate [easter] Because Now, Thanks To The Risen Lord, It Is Definitively Established That Reason Is Stronger Than Unreason, Truth Stronger Than Lies, Love Stronger Than Death.
To Be Sure, It Was Not Easter Sunday But Holy Saturday, But, The More I Reflect On It, The More This Seems To Be Fitting For The Nature Of Our Human Life: We Are Still Awaiting Easter; We Are Not Yet Standing In The Full Light But Walking Toward It Full Of Trust.
We Are Still Awaiting Easter; We Are Not Yet Standing In The Full Light But Walking Toward It Full Of Trust.
Lent Is Like A Long 'retreat' During Which We Can Turn Back Into Ourselves And Listen To The Voice Of God, In Order To Defeat The Temptations Of The Evil One. It Is A Period Of Spiritual 'combat' Which We Must Experience Alongside Jesus, Not With Pride And Presumption, But Using The Arms Of Faith: Prayer, Listening To The Word Of God And Penance. In This Way We Will Be Able To Celebrate Easter In Truth, Ready To Renew The Promises Of Our Baptism.
