Some Spiritual Reading Resources for Holy Week and Easter Season

Christ’s Passion and Death on the Cross

• Defeating Death and Receiving Redemption, by Steve Clark
• God Has Reigned from a Tree: Meditations on the Cross of Jesus Christ
• Contemplating Christ’s Passion, by Jeanne Kun
• The Passion, Death, & Resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Four Gospel Accounts, by Don Schwager
• Ecce Homo! – Behold the Man!, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Cross of Christ – the Measure of the World, by John Henry Newman
• Awakened to Eternity, Poems on Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection by Jeanne Kun
• Love All Surpassing in Death and Life, and Behold the Lamb, reflections by Dave Quintana
• If You Have Been Raised with Christ – Then Seek the Things That Are Above, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• A Love Unto Death: Jesus’ Journey to the Cross, by Jeanne Kun
•  New Birth into Living Hope: A commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9, by Daniel Keating
• Emptied for Our Sake, by Bernard of Clairvaux
• The Cross – the One True Glorification of God, by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
• Worship at the Cross, by Charles Simpson
• Contemplating Christ’s Passion, by Jeanne Kun
• What Happened on the Cross, by the early church fathers
• Jesus’ Crucifixion: ‘It Is Finished’, by Jeanne Kun
• Freedom from Sin and Death, by Jeanne Kun
• The Seven Last Words of Jesus, reflections and paintings by John Dunne
• The Redeemer Who Died, by Steve Clark

Christ’s Resurrection and Reflections for the Easter Season 

• The Victory and Exaltation of the Redeemer, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, by Steve Clark
• Receiving Redemption, by Steve Clark
• The Triumph of the Cross: We Who Are in Christ, Share in His victory, by Jeanne Kun
• To Be Conformed with the Risen Christ, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The New Covenant Passover Sacrifice of Christ, by Steve Clark
• First Witnesses to the Risen Christ, by Jeanne Kun
• Simon Peter: God can transform our weakness into strength, by Jeanne Kun 
• A Holy Priesthood Offering Spiritual Sacrifices to God through Christ by Leo the Great
• New Birth into Living Hope: A commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9, by Daniel Keating
• The Passion, Death, & Resurrection of Christ in the Four Gospel Accounts, by Don Schwager
• The Resurrection of Christ is God’s Yes to Us, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) 
• The Cross of Christ – the Measure of the World, by John Henry Newman
• “Sit at My Right Hand” – Royal Messianic Psalms, by Jeanne Kun
• Mary Magdalene: The First Witness to the Risen Christ, by Jeanne Kun
• New Life in Christ, by Steve Clark
• The Good News of Easter, by Fr. Herb Schneider, SJ
• Mary Magdalene: The First Witness to the Risen Christ, by Jeanne Kun
• Thomas meets the Risen Christ, by Jeanne Kun
• The Incarnate, Crucified, and Risen Christ, by Dieterich Bonhoeffer
• The Resurrection of Christ Is God’s Yes to Us, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• What Is the Resurrection of Jesus? by Josef Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
• The Cross – the One True Glorification of God, by Joseph Ratzinger/ Pope Benedict XVI
• Recognizing the Presence of Jesus, by Romano Guardini
• Road to Emmaus, painting and reflection by John Dunne

Top image:  The Death of Jesus (La mort de Jésus), by James Tissot, opaque watercolor over graphite, cropped,  1886-1894, Brooklyn Museum. Source from Wikimedia Commons.