As Pope Clement XIII said in a 1759 encyclical, Easter is the celebration "by which alone the dignity of all other religious occasions is consecrated." The Church traces its origins to what happened on that first Easter Sunday, and this thoughtful volume explores its meaning and its relation to the Lenten season through apposite selections from Scripture, and short texts by Francis de Sales, St. John Chrysostom, and John Henry Cardinal Newman, as well as such popes as St. Leo the Great, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI.