Everyone knows that Easter takes place in the spring each year, but do you know what the day before Easter is called? It’s Holy Saturday. While Easter Sunday is filled with happiness and celebration, ...

The former apostolic nuncio to the United States issues appeal during “these modern times of terrible tribulation” when the “Evil One has gone into a frenzy,” multiplying attacks tempting “souls into ...

The Lenten season ends this week and South Jersey churches are preparing to open for blessings of foods and nighttime vigils on Holy Saturday and on Easter Sunday itself both in-church worship and ...

As we prepare to celebrate the joy of Easter on March 31, we pause to reflect on Holy Saturday, when there is no liturgy and with the altar stripped bare, we wait in silence. We asked our panelists: ...

Good Friday was restless. The gospels tell of mobs and clamor, judgement and shouts of “crucify, crucify!” Then a painful struggling walk through narrow, crowded streets to the Skull, Golgatha, the ...

Check out all 75 Holy Saturday blessings listed below, and feel free to share them with your friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members as a way to spread the peace, hope and love that this ...