A Beautiful Prayer for Easter Sunday to Celebrate, Reflect, and Challenge
Noelle Kirchner 17 Mar
As we said goodbye to 2020, many did so enthusiastically. 2021 is now well underway with the early blooms of spring around us. Spring is a season of new beginnings, new life. You can smell it the wet ground reawakening to life after newly fallen rain. You can see it the early, colorful blooms punctuating the dull landscape that winter left behind. With so much observable promise, the coming of Easter is timely.
Why Do We Celebrate Easter?
Easter is one of the two most important annual Christian holidays. The first is Christmas with the birth of the Christ child. The second is Easter, in which Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. The holiday signifies Jesus’ victory over sin and death following his crucifixion, the fulfillment of Scripture’s promise that Jesus would rise from the dead in three days, and the assurance of eterna
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For years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous business, relying on absolute precision. Playing the French horn, prone as it is to missing notes, is a virtual high-wire act in every concert. I could go from hero to goat within a few mistakes during a solo. I lived in dread, and it made my life and work misery.
Fear of failure is not just a problem for French hornists. Looking bad in front of others is arguably the most common dread people face. This explains why, for example, researchers have found that public speaking is college students’ most common fear; some scholars have famously asserted that people fear it even more than death. And dread about failing doesn’t just afflict the young or inexperienced: According to a 2018 survey conduct
President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him as president, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
On Dec. 14, the Electoral College officially confirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, following a month of attempts by President Trump and his administration to find evidence of voter fraud and corruption in the election results. President-elect Biden forcefully responded to the Trump administration’s actions and called for a different kind of approach to civic life in the United States going forward.
In his address, Mr. Biden’s Catholic faith was on full display as he quoted a prayer beloved by many Catholics: the prayer of St. Francis. He urged listeners to look to the future with the words of the saint in mind: “Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is darkness, light.”