Holy Week begins today with Palm Sunday, or the Sunday of the Passion — Christ’s sufferings, which culminated in his death by crucifixion. We remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, just ...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to dramatically alter our daily lives. Schools and businesses that are not life-sustaining have been ordered closed, and all Pennsylvanians are under a stay-at-home ...

As Jesus came near the place where the road goes down to the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen. Luke ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over the course of that year. The Jubilee of Hope is, therefore, like a fresh ...

Servers carry an urn of sacred oil during Pope Francis’s Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 6, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week, Pope ...

Every year something stands out in the drama of Holy Week, which begins with Jesus’ dramatic entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. On Maundy/Holy Thursday, Jesus celebrates the first Communion amid a ...

ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO – It is Holy Week, and I am in the desert, the spare, parched landscape that sculpted Jesus’ ministry and sheltered the Israelites whom Moses led out of Egypt thousands of years ...

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For the Benedictine community of Annunciation Monastery, "Holy Week is a beautiful, holy time of silence and reflection on the Paschal mystery," said the community's vocation director, Sister Gerard ...