Today marks the beginning of Holy Week for Christians around the world. Christian worship services take churches through the most important moments in the story of Jesus Christ. This is the high point ...

Many devout Christians spend the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday attending a variety of services. We also know from Scripture a number of things Jesus did during his last week on Earth—who ...

Holy Week is the most sacred time in Christianity. From Palm Sunday to the victory of Easter seven days later is what defines the faith. There is no Christian religion without the resurrection of ...

April is here and spring has arrived with all the Easter holidays to look forward to, such as the end of the Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Passover and Holy Week. Unlike many other holidays, ...

Easter Sunday is this upcoming weekend, which means the preceding Saturday is known as Holy Saturday. According to Britannica, Holy Saturday is a Christian religious observance that ends the Lenten ...

Sunday, May 19, is Pentecost Sunday, and the Mass readings — Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; and John 20:19-23 — present a number of symbols of the Holy Spirit: ...

The faith behind searching for holy things. These holy days of the Sacred Triduum — Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, emptying themselves into the glory of Easter — are days when ...

Easter is unique on the Christian calendar, a major point in the cycle of the religious year, and one that has always been able to resist the commercialization and culture warring that surrounds ...

Holy Thursday strides two liturgical seasons: Lent and the Paschal Triduum. The Paschal Triduum, the “Great Three Days,” begins (and Lent ends) with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy ...

Three short months before my best friend was to be married, we boarded a plane — with two other single college friends — for Spain. It was a last hurrah for my soon-to-be-married friend. Once she took ...

JERUSALEM-- In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes ...