Good Friday, Happy Easter

In grade school at St. Charles in Spokane, the nuns used to tell us to always watch the weather on Good Friday. It will be nice in the morning and then, around noon, it will rain or storm, they'd tell us. It does so because this is when Jesus died. And they'd tell us that on Easter, if the sun shines in the windows in the morning, it means you had a good Lent.

It's Friday afternoon. The sun is shining. And I am always disappointed when it does on Good Friday. I'm hoping for sun on Easter morning.

These calendars and holy days are part of our collective history as Catholics. They keep us in this struggling and flawed church. All part of a good Lent.