By Kathy Berken On Deck How do Lent’s 40 days of penance and charity, culminating in the Triduum — Holy ...Read More ...
The rebellion of humanity is healed by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, the new Adam and the new Israel, and such fidelity is a precursor of the Lord’s Paschal mystery, his passion, death and ...
Holy Week has purely religious origins and full of fervour. In the case of the word triduum, it is also linked to religion and especially to Catholic religion and refers to preparation, that is ...
The Paschal Mystery teaches Catholics that living, dying and rising are a part of their experience as Christians. It reminds Catholics that there may be times when they struggle and are in pain ...
In and through the liturgy, Catholics are brought into the Paschal Mystery of dying and rising with Christ and are transformed into the body of Christ. As the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ...
The Paschal candle represents Christ, the Light of the World. The pure beeswax of which the candle is made represents the sinless Christ who was formed in the womb of His Mother. The wick ...
The event of the Transfiguration recounted in today’s Gospel describes the pattern of the Christian life, which is the Paschal mystery. We are always dying and rising with Christ in repeated ...