Practicing Resurrection: An Embodied Pilgrimage for the Easter Season

Author: Christine Valters Paintner, OblSB, PhD, REACE

Publisher:
Broadleaf Books

Publication date:
January 27, 2027

ISBN-13:
979-8341900172

Description

Easter isn’t just one Sunday–it’s a fifty-day season of renewal.

In Practicing Resurrection, beloved writer and retreat leader Christine Valters Paintner invites you to embrace this sacred stretch of time as a pilgrimage of transformation. Rather than rushing past Easter after a single day of celebration, this book calls you to linger in its mystery and let it shape your life.

Through weekly reflections on the Gospel stories of resurrection, Paintner opens doorways into themes like standing in liminal space, honoring wounds, breathing inspiration, and tasting abundance. Each chapter is paired with simple yet profound practices–lectio divina, breath prayer, visio divina, embodied movement–that help you slow down, listen deeply, and awaken to the holy shimmering in ordinary moments.

This lyrical and practical guide is for seekers longing for both beauty and clarity: those who yearn for poetry and presence, yet also want tangible steps to nurture their spiritual life. Practicing Resurrection reminds us that resurrection is not a distant promise but a living energy–one that calls us to joy, courage, and love in the midst of a complex world.

Enter this season with open hands, and discover the home that has always been waiting within you. Let these fifty days become a journey of renewal, a time to cultivate hope, savor beauty, and live into the radiant truth that new life is always possible.

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Praise for the Book

In a season of life when time feels chaotic and uneven—sometimes slow, sometimes racing, sometimes monotonous, sometimes crazy—Christine Valters Paintner’s book reminds me that I do not need to manage time but rather manage myself within the time that I am given: a time marked by cycles and seasons outside my control but beautiful and organic and awaiting my embrace. In Sacred Time, she eases me into a new appreciation for how God is at work in the mystery of time.

Ann M. Garrido

Associate Professor of Homiletics, Aquinas Institute of Theology

In a world of increasing speed, work, and distraction, Christine Valters Painter’s Sacred Time is a welcome guide to shifting our spiritual gears into a mode of renewed attentiveness and intentionality. Beautifully written, this book helps readers adjust the rhythms of their lives to align more closely with that of God and creation.

Rev. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.

Duns Scotus Chair of Spirituality, Catholic Theological Union, Author of The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton

Christine Valters Paintner’s vision deftly translates the seasons of the heart and cycles of the solar and lunar year into pathways of enlightenment and spiritual growth. As with the online experience out of which this book grew, Sacred Time is a rich feast of wisdom that encourages personal insights and a pilgrimage that leads us intentionally toward ‘time out of time.