Easter Baptism And The Fifty Day Analysis

Review of Article The sacraments are a large part of the Christian faith. Without them, we would have a very different religion than we have today. In John O’Brien’s article Easter, Baptism, and the Fifty Days, He dives into the ideas Easter and the fifty days that accompany Easter and the sacrament of baptism. O’Brien Uses the sacraments as evidence of gods love for us. At the beginning of the article, O’Brien talks about a woman named Frances Caryll Houselander who wrote the book The Way of the Cross. He talked about her life for a little bit and the three experiences where she felt the presence of Christ. The first was when she saw a German nurse wearing a crown of thorns, the second was when she saw the icon of Christ the king crucified,
He uses multiple readings from scripture which explain why the sacraments are signs of god love. We use the sacraments as a way to celebrate god and worship him. We use baptism to celebrate Christ’s baptism. We use Easter and the fifty days that go with Easter as a way to celebrate Jesus’s death and resurrection. Even the fact that Easter takes place in the Spring is evidence of gods love in O’Brien’s eyes. This is because it takes place when everything is starting to come back to life. He concluded the article talking about violence briefly. He talks about promoting truth and how violence takes away peoples ability to see these truths because their thoughts may be clouded from what happened. O’Brien concludes the essay by saying that we need to promote truth and
He only talked about two of them and I think he would do a good job if he wrote about the other ones too. I want to know how gods love relates to the other sacraments as well. He did a good job explaining gods love with baptism and Easter. Why stop there? Why not talk about how gods love relates with the others? These questions are important for me because I want to see how gods love fits in with the other sacraments. Overall, John O’Brien did a good job talking about Easter and baptism. He was effective in giving us background on the two. He did a good job relating the two to the love of god. From there he elaborates how they relate to god’s love. He managed to do this very effectively giving the reader a lot of detail about it. He could have added other sacraments and explained how gods love related to them too. That would have made this article stronger but overall this article was very strong and O’Brien did a great