Bellarmine University Our Lady of the Woods Chapel Easter Sunday https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033124.cfm Happy Easter, Bellarmine. Christ is risen today, Allelulia. The Easter eggs came out two weeks early in our house this year. My wife, Kate, brought them out of the basement to get ready for our egg hunt. Our four kids started to play with them before the Easter bunny could fill them. Max, one of our four-year old triplets, pulled out this egg here and brought it to me early on Saturday morning (while I was still in bed). I’m not sure if you can see this well, but this yellow and orange egg has three crosses on it: the cross of Christ and those of the two thieves. Max said to me, “look Dad!” pointing to Christ’s cross, “Jesus died here.” Then he popped the egg open and said, “it’s empty inside.” But then he looked a little closer and said, “there’s the sun in there!” Sun spelled s-u-n....
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."