Download or read book Lent and Easter with the Holy Fathers written by and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend this Lent and Easter in the Good Company of Popes Past and Present As Pope Clement XIII said in a 1759 encyclical, Easter is the celebration "by which alone the dignity of all other religious occasions is consecrated." The Church would not exist if it were not for what happened on that first Easter Sunday. Also, the events of this season are all connected: There would have been no Easter Sunday without Good Friday; Good Friday is best understood in the context of Palm Sunday; and the forty days of Lent are modeled after the temptations of Christ in the desert. This is the story of the passion of our Lord. Our faith revolves around that passion, His death, and His resurrection. Without the events of this season, our faith wouldn't make any sense at all. There is no better time to listen to the words of the Holy Fathers, then now. Praise for Christmas with the Holy Fathers This is a marvelous book to give anyone who has a real sense of the Churchand of the significance of the teachings of the bishops of Rome. I highly recommend it." --Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel