Tonight, the church celebrates Tenebrae. It is an ancient service that serves as a kind of vigil to the paschal triduum, with the extinguishing of the candles on the hearse — a mirror image of the ...

The word paschal pertains to the Jewish feast of Passover, when the Exodus as the path from slavery to freedom is celebrated and the Passover lamb is slain and eaten. Christians use the term paschal ...

In a file photo, a woman receives ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral in Newark, N.J., March 1, 2017. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen This coming week, Christian ...

My husband and I were staying in the Mountain Home, Arkansas area to celebrate our wedding anniversary and attended Mass at the Church of St. Peter the Fisherman for the Fifth Sunday of Lent. We ...

Last week, after lectures at the Thomas Merton Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and in Victoria and Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, I caught the early morning ferry back to Tsawwassen and ...

The evening vespers are an important tradition and prayer that allow Christians a moment in the day to give thanks, ask for forgiveness and reflect on the essential elements of the Paschal mystery, ...

“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” thus says the priest as he applies ashes on a person’s forehead. We commence the Lenten season with Ash Wednesday. The season reminds us to ...

One of the great achievements of the liturgical movement in the twentieth century was the recovery of the centrality of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ for Christian life, thought, and practice.

We have returned to Ordinary Time. The white vestments of our feasts have given way to green as the celebratory poinsettias and pine trees have disappeared from the sanctuary. We return to the regular ...