This rite anticipated the bloody sacrifice that Christ accomplished on the cross once and for all on Good Friday for the redemption of the world. The Church continues to offer the sacrifice of the ...

Yet, some events on the Church calendar, like Easter Sunday, inspire prayers and blessings with a common focal point, such as encouraging believers to "raise your joys and triumphs high." Easter ...

5. Prayer is a work of mercy. Praying for the living and the dead is a spiritual work of mercy. When we pray for the cardinal ...

This is Chaplain Harry, state chaplain with the Disabled American Veterans reading from 1 Peter 2:24 where it says, "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, ...

The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as permanent tradition, according to the Museum of the Bible. At this time, Lent ...

The governor charged them to use the auspicious occasion, which marks the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, to pray for the ... death on the cross and his resurrection.

April 18 (UPI) --Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden ... People marking the Christian holy day follow the Way of the Cross or Via Dolorosa route through the streets ...

Begun as a Catholic tradition, the Stations of the Cross, also known as ... make a spiritual pilgrimage of prayer, through meditating upon the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death.