Living Easter
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Living Easter will help you fulfill the vision of St. John Paul II, who said, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song!” This beautifully revised and expanded volume is an updated edition of Risen, originally published in 2019, refreshed to invite a new generation into the joy of the Resurrection.
As the most significant season of the Church year, Easter deserves to be lived well and celebrated fully, and few voices speak more compellingly about Christian joy than Laura Kelly Fanucci, celebrated author and creator of The Holy Labor newsletter and the Mothering Spirit platform. “Living Easter celebrates joy itself as our Resurrection practice,” Fanucci writes. “Taking up joy as a daily discipline teaches us about feasting as a companion practice to fasting: an intentional sacred act that draws us closer to God."
With a stunning design, Living Easter invites you to embrace the Resurrection as a living reality, guiding you through fifty days of scripture, reflection, prayer, and action. With warmth and joy, Fanucci shows how to celebrate Easter with this simple, easy-to-follow daily companion—just open to the day’s reading and reflection, no preparation required.
- Read a passage from the gospels or Acts of the Apostles about Jesus’s Resurrection.
- Ponder a thoughtful reflection that will change the way you think about these foundational stories.
- Follow a heartfelt and brief prayer prompt.
- Take up a daily call-to-action, ranging from ideas for what you might eat or wear during Easter to lively ways that you can practice joy in your interactions with others.
Each week ends with a longer essay, which breaks open the experiences of Jesus’s mother, Mary, and the bewildered disciples, beholding the wonder of Christ’s first appearances after his death and burial.
These pages offer a worthy home for your margin notes, questions, and insights as you return year after year to reflect on the central stories of our Christian faith. Beautifully designed to be treasured and passed down, this heirloom book invites both your personal reflection and the shared wisdom of generations. Whether engaged in solitary meditation or shared in a group study, it will form your mind, heart, and soul in the abundance of the One whose love broke open the grave.
Product Details
- Pages: 160
- Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN: 9781646804474
- Imprint: Ave Maria Press
Description
Living Easter will help you fulfill the vision of St. John Paul II, who said, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song!” This beautifully revised and expanded volume is an updated edition of Risen, originally published in 2019, refreshed to invite a new generation into the joy of the Resurrection.
As the most significant season of the Church year, Easter deserves to be lived well and celebrated fully, and few voices speak more compellingly about Christian joy than Laura Kelly Fanucci, celebrated author and creator of The Holy Labor newsletter and the Mothering Spirit platform. “Living Easter celebrates joy itself as our Resurrection practice,” Fanucci writes. “Taking up joy as a daily discipline teaches us about feasting as a companion practice to fasting: an intentional sacred act that draws us closer to God."
With a stunning design, Living Easter invites you to embrace the Resurrection as a living reality, guiding you through fifty days of scripture, reflection, prayer, and action. With warmth and joy, Fanucci shows how to celebrate Easter with this simple, easy-to-follow daily companion—just open to the day’s reading and reflection, no preparation required.
- Read a passage from the gospels or Acts of the Apostles about Jesus’s Resurrection.
- Ponder a thoughtful reflection that will change the way you think about these foundational stories.
- Follow a heartfelt and brief prayer prompt.
- Take up a daily call-to-action, ranging from ideas for what you might eat or wear during Easter to lively ways that you can practice joy in your interactions with others.
Each week ends with a longer essay, which breaks open the experiences of Jesus’s mother, Mary, and the bewildered disciples, beholding the wonder of Christ’s first appearances after his death and burial.
These pages offer a worthy home for your margin notes, questions, and insights as you return year after year to reflect on the central stories of our Christian faith. Beautifully designed to be treasured and passed down, this heirloom book invites both your personal reflection and the shared wisdom of generations. Whether engaged in solitary meditation or shared in a group study, it will form your mind, heart, and soul in the abundance of the One whose love broke open the grave.
Product Details
- Pages: 160
- Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN: 9781646804474
- Imprint: Ave Maria Press
Customer Reviews
- AAmyVerified Reviewer1 week agoRated 5 out of 5 starsA Daily Guide for the Easter Season
I appreciate the guidance this book gives for how to live Easter as a season. Many of us are familiar with the practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for Lent, but this book invites us to live Easter as more than just a day. It is also beautifully designed and a pleasure to look at.
- HCHeather C.Verified Buyer1 week agoRated 5 out of 5 starsIncredible resource!
As always, everything and anything that Laura produces is absolute fire. This is no exception! This book will definitely be a part of my Easter season reflections year after year after year!
- MMichelle1 week agoRated 5 out of 5 stars5 Stars
We spend so much time on special reflects for Lent, but we don’t take nearly the same care with the Easter season. I am so delighted to get this book to do a deeper dive into the Easter season.
- ECErica C.Verified Reviewer3 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsA perfect companion for our time
We need Easter more than ever right now and Laura's voice is one that is here to keep us all grounded in the good news of Easter and challenge us to live more fully.
- DPDavid P.Verified Reviewer3 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsPerfect addition for this season!
A perfect addition to help enhance knowledge/faith for the Easter season. The content is incredibly well-researched, well-written, and is a great, manageable add for anyone looking for resources in the space. Laura's writing is both entertaining and scholarly, and fits perfectly within the space of providing a better understanding, while also being an easy, digestible daily read for the rest of us.
- KCKathleen C.Verified Reviewer3 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsLiving Easter is Beautiful!
The resurrected Christ must have been so beautiful to see. Thanks to Laura's prayerful work with scripture, the beauty of Jesus shines forth in this lovely, colorful book. It has given me a fresh take on the close encounters between Jesus and his disciples, which await each of us. Try it for 50 days!
- ARAmy R.Verified Reviewer3 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsAn Easter Devotional for Protestant and Catholic Readers
I was thrilled to receive a copy of this new Easter devotional by Laura Kelly Fanucci. As a Protestant leaning deeply into more liturgical practices with my family, I am loving celebrating the richness of the church calendar, and I am delighted to learn more about the celebration of Eastertide. This devotional has brief, yet rich entries for each of the 50 days between Easter and Pentecost Sunday. I have loved following Fanucci's writing the last several years, and her work here does not disappoint. The daily entries are succinct but so substantive, and there is an essay at the end of each week for a deeper dive into that week's subject matter. I loved reading this book and will read it again in community with other readers starting on Easter Sunday. I deeply love this idea of living Easter each day for fifty days.
Highly, highly recommend this devotional for Protestants and Catholics alike.
