{"id":138963,"date":"2015-04-03T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-cure-for-discouragement-a-retreat-guide-for-easter\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T23:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:20:56","slug":"a-cure-for-discouragement-a-retreat-guide-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-cure-for-discouragement-a-retreat-guide-for-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cure for Discouragement: A Retreat Guide for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"138963\" class=\"elementor elementor-138963\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d7004c9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5d7004c9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47d5355 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47d5355\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The appearances of Jesus after his Resurrection, as recorded in the New Testament, are, to be honest, kind of confusing.\u00a0 The people he appears to don\u2019t recognize him right away, even though they knew him before.\n\nCritics of Christianity attribute these appearances to the imagination of Christ\u2019s followers.\u00a0 They say that the first Christians simply invented the Resurrection, and that\u2019s why the Gospel accounts are so confusing.\n\nPope Benedict XVI attributes the unique character of these Gospel pages to one simple cause: Christ\u2019s Resurrection itself was something entirely, radically new. 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