The Good Friday liturgy commemorates the apex of Christ’s passion with a remembrance of his crucifixion and death at Calvary. The Good Friday Reproaches are a series of antiphons, known also as the ...

It is Good Friday, the most solemn day of the year. Pity the preachers who, year in and year out, must participate in the recitation of the passion account, which invites silence more than anything, ...

Easter is on Sunday, March 31, this year, but those celebrating the holiday religiously will start much earlier. The Friday before Easter is known to Catholics as Good Friday and honors the ...

A man, portraying Jesus, carries a cross down a neighborhood street during a 2019 live re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross outside All Saints Catholic Church in Houston on Good Friday. (CNS ...

Christians around the world observe Good Friday two days before Easter, but what is it, and why do they commemorate the holy day? The holiday is part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday.

ZANESVILLE ‒ The Bible tells us Jesus was mocked, tortured and crucified on what is now known as Good Friday. It leads up to His resurrection and Easter Sunday, but as many local churches prepare for ...

Easter weekend is approaching, and will mark a later-than-usual date on the calendar for the Christian celebration. Not only does Easter Sunday commemorate Christians' belief in the Resurrection of ...

Easter is just days away, marking an end to the Lenten season — often observed by the religious as giving up something for weeks and abstaining from meat on Fridays — as the final days of Holy Week, ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family attended the Vatican’s Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday during the first day of an April 18–20 visit to Rome. On his ...