Register Daily: We Are All Free to Accept — or Reject — Our Destiny

  Can’t see this email properly? [View online](     A Service of EWTN     [NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER](   [Donate](  [Subscribe](  [Trending](   [avw.php?zoneid=67&cb=00300318](    [We Are All Free to Accept — or Reject — Our Destiny](  By Donald DeMarco | There may be no word other than “love” in the English language that is more subject to romantic distortion than the word “destiny.” A quick search of the internet reveals 6,472 lyrics and 100 albums containing this magical word....  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [This is the Dark Night, the Dance of Heaven, Our Redemption](  By Dan Burke | To be free of habitual mortal and venial sin is a glorious reality. To live within the beautiful rhythm of a rule of life, to dance in step with the heart of God, to have a tangible and near-constant experience of His peace and love...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [A ‘Passion’ for the Ages: A Religious Masterpiece Comes to Blu-Ray](  By Steven D. Greydanus | About halfway through Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc is a sequence in which Joan, during a brief respite from her ecclesiastical inquisitors, is mocked and tormented by a trio of English soldiers, who place a straw...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [What Can We Learn From Thieves on Crosses?](  By John Clark | Within Luke’s Gospel narrative of the Passion of Christ, a mere five verses contain the story of two men who hung to the left and right of Jesus. The verses tell a story of love and hate, of hope and despair, of tragedy and triumph....  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [13 Myths of the Crucifixion](  By Thomas McGovern, MD | For all of our lives, we Catholics have been gazing at Crucifixes. We see them at home, in school, at the hospital, in movies, and in our Churches. Many different presentations of Christ on the cross have been portrayed in...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [Another Doctor at Calvary](  By Thomas McGovern, MD | In 1950, the French Surgeon Pierre Barbet published his book A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon. I have been privileged to be another doctor at Calvary, one who has studied...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [9 Things You Need to Know About Good Friday](  By Jimmy Akin | Note: This article originally appeared at the Register on March 28, 2013. Good Friday is the most somber day of the Christian year. It is the day our Savior died for us. It is the day we were redeemed from our sins by the...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](         [The Often-Overlooked Saints of Good Friday](  By Thomas Craughwell | Of Christ’s eleven surviving apostles and who-knows-how-many disciples and followers, only a tiny handful had the courage to stand at the foot of his cross. There was the Blessed Virgin Mary, of course, and St. John the...  [Read More](  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Google Plus One Button](        [CLICK TO SHARE THIS EMAIL WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY](    [fb](  [twit](  [YT](  [Mail](  [Insta](    [NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER](  COPYRIGHT © 2018 EWTN NEWS INC.  YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU OPTED IN AT OUR WEBSITE.  EWTN NEWS INC. PO BOX 100‌699 IRONDALE, AL 35‌210  [ADD US TO YOUR ADDRESS BOOK]( [unsubscribe](  |  [update my preferences]( [e-newsletters opt out](   Â