Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! What joyous, wonderful words we Christians have to greet one another with during this Easter season! Thanks be to God: it wasn’t enough that sin should be paid for by Jesus on the cross. No, God the Father also raised Him from the dead, a sure…

In his movie The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibson makes a few alterations to the dialogue of Christ’s last hours, for dramatic effect. I recall one line in particular that Jesus utters to His mother Mary while fallen down in pain and exhaustion: “…I make all things new,” Jesus says. I remember seeing the…