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The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

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March 30, 2026

Jean Louis Berlandier and the Pious Witness of America, by Russell M. Lawson

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Detail from "The Crucifixion" (from the Isenheim Altarpiece, c.1512-15) by Matthias Grünewald (Image: WikiArt.org)

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, March 29, 2026

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. He is author of Words Made Flesh: The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education (CUA Press, 2024), How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization (TAN), ….

Even if we have passed through the water in Baptism and received the supernatural food and drink of the Eucharist, we cannot simply presume on our salvation.

Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion?

Holy Week, as the culmination of Lent, seeks to resolve these dangling tensions, as we celebrate the Paschal Mystery, the new Passover initiated by Jesus. It’s about experiencing liberation, the freedom that comes from being saved from deadly forces we can’t control. It only takes death.

Just as the angel of death passed over the house of the Israelites, which had the blood of the Passover lamb spread over the lintel of the door and down its sides, so the blood of the new Passover Lamb, Jesus himself, saves us from eternal death. Instituting a new Passover implies that there has been a new Exodus as well. ….

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The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

Americans Oppose Mail-Order Abortions That Kill Millions of Babies, by S.A. McCarthy

Jean Louis Berlandier and the Pious Witness of America, by Russell M. Lawson

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, March 29, 2026

Even if we have passed through the water in Baptism and received the supernatural food and drink of the Eucharist, we cannot simply presume on our salvation.

Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion?

Holy Week, as the culmination of Lent, seeks to resolve these dangling tensions, as we celebrate the Paschal Mystery, the new Passover initiated by Jesus. It’s about experiencing liberation, the freedom that comes from being saved from deadly forces we can’t control. It only takes death.

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