How is Easter linked to eggs and bunnies? Here's what to know about the historical significance of the Christian holiday.

In Holy Week, the days just before Easter ... centuries – to act in his stead and re-present this sacrifice. So at every Mass, by way of transubstantiation, the bread and wine offered by ...

This is a Holy Week unlike any in recent memory, says School of Theology and Minstry Professor Thomas Groome. “Holy Week remembers and celebrates the final week of Jesus' life on earth, beginning with ...

Good Friday is always the Friday before Easter, which is determined by the lunar calendar and changes every year. It's the second-to-last day of Holy Week. This year, Good Friday will fall on ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

A video showing a Holy Week procession at the Santa Maria de Gracia church in Cartagena, in the Murcia region of Spain, was shared on social media with false captions saying that it showed satanic ...

This holy day commemorates the actions Jesus ... Christians to at least read about the actions Jesus took on each day of his last week on Earth, including the events that transpired on Thursday.

In a similar vein, Pope Francis’ final days can be viewed as a kind of “holy week.” How he spent the ... and the following day, apparently on a whim, he asked to be taken in his wheelchair ...

The Triduum of Holy Week includes Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, with Easter taking place the following day. Christians are obligated to fast and abstain on Ash ...