Religious quotes and news – April 5, 2026
Snippets of religious statements and highlights of events from around the world
The following are extracts of an address Pope Leo gave on November 5, 2025, to answer the question: ‘How can we say that it is Easter every day?’:
Every day is Easter
“The Church teaches us to make a living remembrance of the Resurrection every year on Easter Sunday and every day in the Eucharistic celebration, during which the promise of the risen Lord is most fully realised: ‘Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age’ (Mt 28:20). For this reason, the Paschal Mystery is the cornerstone of Christian life, around which all other events revolve. We can say that every day is Easter.
“Hour by hour, we have so many different experiences: pain, suffering, sadness, intertwined with joy, wonder, serenity. But through every situation, the human heart longs for fullness, a profound happiness.”
Victory of love over sin, of life over death
“The Paschal proclamation is the quintessential ‘gospel’, which attests to the victory of love over sin and of life over death, and this is why it is the only thing capable of satisfying the demand for meaning that troubles our minds and our hearts.
“Human beings are inspired by an inner movement, striving towards a beyond that continually attracts them. No contingent reality satisfies us. We tend towards the infinite and the eternal.”
Courageous power of Christian hope
“Easter does not eliminate the cross, but defeats it in the miraculous duel that changed our human history. Even our time, marked by so many crosses, invokes the dawn of Paschal hope.
“Christ’s resurrection is not an idea, a theory, but the event that is the foundation of faith. He, the risen one, through the Holy Spirit, continues to remind us of this, so that we can be his witnesses even where human history does not see light on the horizon.
“Paschal hope does not disappoint. To believe truly in the Pasch through our daily journey means revolutionising our lives, being transformed in order to transform the world with the gentle and courageous power of Christian hope.”
(Compiled by Fr Joe Borg)