Easter Greetings
Dear Friends and Fellow Pilgrims,
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
On this most sacred and joyful day of the Christian year, I find myself thinking of each of you with deep gratitude and no small amount of wonder. When I launched *Liturgy and Truth* just a few months ago, I could not have imagined that over 1,500 of you would gather around this little corner of the Church’s conversation. I am genuinely humbled. That so many hearts and minds are seeking deeper engagement with the liturgy, with theology, and with the prophetic demands of the Gospel — this is itself a sign of hope, and I do not take it lightly.
This ministry was never meant to be mine alone. It belongs to the Church, and to you. Your presence here, your reading, your responses, your sharing of these reflections with others — you have made Liturgy and Truth something I could never have built on my own. For that, I am more grateful than I can easily say.
The Resurrection is not simply a memory we celebrate — it is a living reality that presses into every corner of our lives, whispering that love is stronger than death, that light outlasts every darkness, and that hope is never finally extinguished. This Easter, perhaps more than in recent years, I feel the weight and the wonder of that promise. The world offers us no shortage of anxiety and shadow. Yet the empty tomb stands as the Church’s most defiant and joyful proclamation: that the last word belongs not to suffering, not to fear, not to the grave — but to God.
May the Risen Christ meet you wherever you are this Easter — at a family table, in a quiet moment of prayer, or simply in the unexpected kindness of someone who crosses your path. He has a way of appearing where we least expect Him, just as He did in that garden, in that upper room, on that road to Emmaus.
I hold you all in my prayers. Thank you for the gift of your companionship on this journey. It is, truly, one of the great graces of these years.
A blessed and joyful Easter to you and all those you love.
In the joy of the Risen Lord,
Monsignor Arthur Holquin, S.T.L.
Your wonderful Easter greetings and indeed all your writings are so uplifting. With you we all pray for this very broken, wounded world in which we find ourselves this Easter. Thank you for offering such hope and joy midst the turmoil. Happy Easter
Thank you, monsignor, and a blessed Easter to you. Keep speaking out! You make me proud to be Catholic, even though it's been awhile since I have been to church!