Easter Joy Homily – Ants, Worms, & Eggs

This isn’t your grandma’s Easter homily… unless your grandma is extremely cool!

This Easter, we’re diving into the Resurrection using three words we absolutely did not expect in church: ants, worms, and eggs.

Yes… ants. We’re zooming out from a comic strip all the way to the cosmos to remind ourselves just how tiny we are — and how wild it is that Jesus chose to become one of us anyway. Spoiler: if you’ve ever felt like an ant trying to understand the universe, this episode is for you.

Then we’re wriggling straight into worms — thanks to Bishop Fulton Sheen and one very honest seventh‑grader who responded to theology with a heartfelt “Ew!” We’ll explore why the Incarnation is far more shocking (an ...