You can still listen to our current series of Lent and Easter reflections and watch videos about each of the Holy Days. Listen to 11 specially written reflections from the Abbey. The reflections were ...

With the blossoming of spring brings the holiest day in the Christian religion — the celebration of Easter. See when the ...

In 2024 Easter Sunday is on 31 March. The week leading up to Easter is called Holy Week. This is the Sunday before Easter Sunday. It is the first day of Holy Week and celebrates Jesus's arrival in ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one ... the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic ...

In most churches, the decorations are red to symbolize the blood of martyrdom. Some churches remove all decorations on Good Friday, veiling anything that can’t be removed in black or purple.

Northern Cross began in 1976 when a group of Christians decided to make a journey in the week before Easter to Holy Island off the Northumberland coast. It took the walkers a week to cover the 118 ...

LEÓN, Spain (JTA) — It’s the week before Easter in León ... “Semana Santa,” or Holy Week, is the most important religious period in Spain. León’s celebrations are particularly ...