The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his resurrection. After sunset, the Easter Vigil is often celebrated it is a a ...

Let us meditate upon the resurrection of Christ and discover the pathway of light that Christ blazes through our lives. "The angel of the Lord said to the women: 'Do not be afraid! I know that you ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

Before the Council of Nicaea in 325, different Christian communities celebrated Easter on ... but the Lord comes to us," he ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

At this Mass, the bishop washes the feet of twelve priests to symbolize Christ’s washing of his twelve Apostles, our ... Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the Resurrection of the Lord ...

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord ... that on Easter Sunday morning the tomb was found empty. The question is this: Is Jesus alive in you? Has His resurrection ...

The fifth mystery is depicted in art by the 19th-century British pre-Raphaelite painter, William Holman Hunt. Most people ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

The miraculous tearing of that thick curtain has significant meaning since, upon His death and subsequent Resurrection ... (Numbers 20:1-13). Our lesson: If the Lord gives you specific ...