EDITORIAL: Practical suggestions faithful Catholics also utilize to make their Holy Week as spiritually fruitful as possible.

Mukti Clarence S.J. Holy Week is the most solemn and spiritually intense period in the Christian calendar, marking the final ...

Jesus’ last words from the Cross. They echo throughout Holy Saturday. The end of the Incarnation ... In the dawn of the following day she found the empty grave and through her tears thought ...

Five grains of incense inserted into the candle in the form of a cross recall the aromatic ... During the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night the priest or deacon carries the candle in procession ...

The small town celebrated a new tradition with its inaugural Easter Holy Week Parade. Families lined Main Street on Saturday to watch the procession centered on the religious story of Easter.

Holy water is also removed ... Jesus died on the cross and was buried before sunset. So Friday was first day that Jesus lay in the tomb. Saturday: the Jewish Sabbath Jesus rested in the tomb ...