My first experience of Holy Week (nearly 20 years ago now) was an experience of service and...
On Good Friday, the initiative Faithful Philly , together with a consortium of parishes,...
The grain of wheat has fallen into the earth, died, and is now germinating. The fields are turning...
Silence, sorrow, faith tested. Holy Saturday is perhaps one of the most challenging days of the Christian faith . It is the interval between the pain of the cross and the joy of the resurrection, a time that invites the heart into recollection....
In the deep silence of this day, the heart is invited to pause and become still. It is not an empty silence nor a sterile one, but a silence filled with memory, a silence that gathers what has been lived and opens the soul to contemplation. Today’s...
“Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene” (Jn 19:25). Good Friday places us before the deepest mystery of our faith: the Cross of Christ . It is not simply a remembrance of a...
Holy Thursday truly sets the tone for the Sacred Triduum ; it is the doorway into the deepest mysteries of our faith. On this day, Jesus gathers His disciples for the Last Supper , instituting the Eucharist as the perpetual source of communion with...