For Your Easter Reflection

Albert Holtz, OSB, is a monk of Newark Abbey in Newark, NJ,where he is the director of formation and teaches New Testament in the monastery's inner city prep school.  He has written Faces of Easter: Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us (Liturgical Press, 2019).  With a daily reflection from Easter until Pentecost, this book gives the reader an opportunity to accompany the author "through the fifty days of the Easter season, listening in on his intriguing interactions with local street people and his inner-city high school students, . . . giving an insider's look at what goes on in a monk's heart as he chants Vespers to the sound of police sirens" (from the publisher).