“Wesley Hill has greatly deepened my appreciation for Eastertide. He vividly illuminates the spiritual and symbolic elements of Easter, offering insights that will strengthen your spirit. I look forward to revisiting his work time and again in preparation for and celebration of this festive season.”

“Wesley Hill has presented us not with a single Easter lily but a lavish bouquet: scriptural narrative and liturgical drama, baptism and the church, Ascension and Pentecost, hope and healing, and a charge to bear the good news to the world. He wonderfully reminds us that Easter is neither an event trapped in the past nor a single holiday once a year, but fifty days of rejoicing the risen Lord in preparation for his final victory.”

“‘He is risen!’ This is a joyful indicative than which none greater can be received, hence the Easter Alleluias. Words are not able to do full justice to what Easter commemorates, the climax of the centuries’ long drama of redemption. Readers will nevertheless benefit from Wesley Hill’s personal, poetic, and uplifting reflections on its Passover plot – the wondrous transformation of Jesus’ death into new life – and on how baptism, liturgy, and the gift of the Holy Spirit enable the faithful even now to experience the first fruits of their new humanity in the risen and ascended Christ, everything they need for their everyday Christian mission of turning the world upside down. ‘He is risen indeed!'”