Breaking Open the News for Easter Sunday—B

To see how you might use one of these points in your catechesis, read “How to lead a 90-minute catechetical session.”

The Way of Faith

Explain that the Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith, a faith handed down to us by the first disciples.

In the news

While Mexico or Havana beaches may be calling out to thousands of high school and college spring breakers, many are choosing to heed the call of God during their week off. Hundreds of students on spring break this week are hitting the Gulf Coast to help families still recovering from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Ike. Others are also heading to the Midwest where flooding has destroyed hundreds of homes. (Spring Breakers Choose Outreach Over Vacation)

In the readings

He said to them, “Do not be amazed!
You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified.
He has been raised; he is not here. (Mk 16:1-7)

In the tradition

The Church continues to sow the Gospel in God’s field. Christians, in the most diverse social situations, perceive the world with the same eyes with which Jesus contemplated the society of his time. The disciple of Jesus Christ deeply shares the “joys and hopes, the sadness and the anxieties of people today.” The Christian knows that every human event—indeed all reality—is marked by the creative activity of God which communicates goodness to all beings; the power of sin which limits and numbs people; and the dynamism which bursts forth from the Resurrection of Christ, the seed renewing believers is the hope of a definitive “fulfilment.” A world-view not incorporating these three elements cannot be authentically Christian. Hence the importance of a catechesis capable of initiating catechumens and those to be catechized into a “theological reading of modern problems.” (General Directory for Catechesis, 16)