Alleluia, He is risen!

Happy Easter to all! Congratulations to Jeff and Kate, who are celebrating their first Easter with their new little Easter bunny! We miss you all- sending lots of love your way. The birthday girl has a fever, but feeling the excitement of the day (and having gorged on nutella crepes and jelly beans), she's happy nonetheless.  

Holy Wednesday egg dying...

...to be eaten at our seder meal on Holy Thursday.

Rose's Easter birthday cake! It's nice to turn three on Easter Sunday. You get cake and ice cream, AND chocolate and jelly beans.

The spread. Fried rice not pictured, but included.

That's a big mouth.

Frankie looking elegant with her hair curled.

Love this pale purple dress from the Philippines. They don't make them this cute in the U.S.!

Graham's first Easter! It gets better, little guy. One more year until chocolate eggs.

Easter

Bishop Loverde celebrated Easter Sunday Mass at our church this year, and he patiently agreed to pose for a family shot.

Happy Easter everyone!

The Shroud of Turin

This is so fascinating. You may have noticed the Shroud is back in the news the past week because of Pope Francis's remarks on it and a new book of research that's come out (to be peer reviewed shortly). I didn't know the Shroud's authenticity was "debunked" in the 80's by carbon dating. Apparently that carbon dating sample has been called into question- here's the back story and an explanation of the current claim that the Shroud is from the 1st century when you have 45 minutes:

New Evidence on the Shroud

Bottom line: the carbon dating sample taken from the edge of the shroud in the 80's had medieval cotton woven into the original linen fabric, quite possibly causing incorrect carbon dating. 

Happy Easter!

"O Jesus, Divine Prisoner of Love, when I consider Your love and how You emptied Yourself for me, my senses fail me. You hide Your inconceivable majesty and lower Yourself to miserable me. O King of Glory, though You hide Your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving You honor without cease, and all the heavenly Powers praising You without cease, and without cease they are saying: Holy, Holy, Holy" (St. Faustina, 80).

We had a wonderful Easter weekend with Jeff, Kate, Lolo and Lola- we miss you all already! And a big shout out to Great Grandma Cook and Aunt Cyndy for the amazing Easter baskets and goodies! We will be enjoying their contents for weeks to come.

First time at Ben's Chili Bowl, and we all got a table together right off the bat...on Easter weekend! You can see the people packed in like sardines behind us...

Jeff, Kate and Frankie enjoying the Kite Flying Festival downtown.