which throughout the Easter season replaces the Old Testament reading. The reading from the Apostle Paul concerns the living out of the paschal mystery in the Church” (99). Then of course there ...

On major feast days, they would have an extended service of readings ... they should get a program (with the psalms of Compline, the hymn, etc.) and a candle (as at the Easter Vigil).

It's the stuff of children's church programs; palm branches ... In a world with few books but many Scripture readings, the crowds would doubtless have picked up Jesus’s reference to Zechariah’s ...

Lent and Easter services, events and Christian resources for 2025 will be announced early next year. You can still listen to our current series of Lent and Easter reflections and watch videos about ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

It continues with the Last Supper, his crucifixion, and culminates in Easter Sunday, which marks his resurrection ... a sombre and reflective program that includes readings and psalms. On Maundy ...

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday. It commemorates the execution of Jesus by crucifixion. Good Friday is a day of mourning in church. During special Good Friday services Christians ...

With the possible exception of Christmas, and a few weeks leading up to Easter, I think that the fall months of October and ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to ...

the Iranian police has been known to make more arrests around Christmas and Easter, so she and her fellow church members have had to adapt. "We've never been able to celebrate Christmas or Easter ...

The top spokesperson for the Catholic Church said that they had never asked the then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe to appoint committees to probe Easter Sunday issues, and the Church was not ...