of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water ...

Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church, when devout people traveled to Jerusalem at Passover to reenact the events of the week leading up to the Resurrection.

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have a common date to celebrate Holy Week and ... expressed the hope that the ...

A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

CNN By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized since ...

7, 2023, Hamas attack and Israel’s multi-front war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis, there is hope that pilgrims will return to the Holy Land ... flights per week to Israel ...

This week, students at Mashpee Middle-High School celebrated a special kind of spirit week: Hope Week. Courtesy of the school’s Hope Squad, Hope Week highlights themes of mental health awareness ...

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This is a Holy Week unlike any in recent memory, says School of Theology and Minstry Professor Thomas Groome. “Holy Week remembers and celebrates the final week of Jesus' life on earth, beginning with ...

ROME – When the Jubilee of Hope kicked off last week with the first major event of the holy year, dedicated to communicators, it represented a series of perks but also significant challenges ...

With the theme of Jubilee 2025 being “Pilgrims of Hope,” Archbishop John Wilson ... The Blessed Lord is truly present with us in the Mass, in Holy Communion, in the tabernacle, in the monstrance.

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem ... It is the central event of the Christian faith and is observed with joy and worship on the first Sunday following Holy ...