Some Spiritual Reading Resources for Holy Week and Easter Season

Christ’s Passion and Death on the Cross

• Dying to Defeat Death: The death of Jesus was a victory over death itself, by Steve Clark
• The Redeemer Who Died, by Steve Clark
• 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
• 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
• God Has Reigned from a Tree: Meditations on the Cross of Jesus Christ
• 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
• Awakened to Eternity, Poems on Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection by Jeanne Kun

Christ’s Resurrection and Reflections for the Easter Season 

• Exalted Over All, by Steve Clark
• Receiving Redemption: United with Christ we pass from death to new life, by Steve Clark
• New Life in Christ, by Steve Clark
• New Birth into Living Hope: A commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9, by Dr. Daniel Keating
• The Good News of Easter, by Fr. Herb Schneider, SJ
• Behold the Lamb by Dave Quintana
• The Triumph of the Cross: The Risen Lord opens the Scriptures to his disciples, by Jeanne Kun
• Simon Peter: transforming weakness into strength, by Jeanne Kun
• 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 Incredulity of Saint Thomas, painting by Carravagio. In the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.