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March 29, 2024
Jesus died on the Cross for everyone, says papal preacher in Good Friday liturgy
March 29, 2024
ROME – In a service Friday commemorating Jesus’s suffering and death on the cross, papal preacher Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said his sacrifice was for everyone, no exception, and was illustrative of God’s true power, found not in might, but in loving sacrifice. Speaking during a Good Friday Passion service in St Peter’s Basilica, Cantalamessa, 89,
Tom Holland recalls inexplicable healing from cancer after praying to Our Lady
March 29, 2024
An internationally bestselling author and celebrity historian has revealed he was mysteriously cured of cancer after a desperate prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Tom Holland is the author of the histories Millennium and Dominion and with Dominic Sandbrook is co-host of The Rest is History podcast, one of the most-listened to podcasts in the
Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot: should we have more sympathy for the villains of Christ’s Passion?
March 29, 2024
The lengthiest readings of the liturgical year occur at the Liturgy of the Passion on Good Friday, when we hear the longest of Isaiah’s “servant songs” (Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12) and – after a modest chunk of Hebrews 4 and 5 – two full chapters of St John’s Gospel, taking us from Jesus setting forth
BBC to feature St Winefride’s Well in Good Friday broadcast of ‘Pilgrimage’
March 29, 2024
The BBC will tonight screen the first of three hour-long episodes of its series Pilgrimage following seven celebrity pilgrims, of differing faiths and beliefs, on a spiritual journey across North Wales. The sixth series of the BBC2 programme takes the well-known personalities along the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. The route celebrates Celtic early Christian saints,
End ‘devastating war’ in Gaza and Israel, plead Church leaders in Holy Land
March 29, 2024
Christian leaders in the Holy Land have issued a Holy Week message demanding and end to the war in Gaza and Israel. “[We] repeat our denunciation of all violent actions in the present devastating war, especially those directed at innocent civilians, and we reiterate our calls for an immediate and sustained ceasefire,” reads the message
Pope Francis washes feet of 12 women prisoners in Maundy Thursday Mass
March 29, 2024
ROME – Pope Francis on Holy Thursday washed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Roman prison, notably including no men in the ritual, telling them to never tire of asking for God’s forgiveness. Speaking off-the-cuff during his March 28 Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the Pope said, “At this moment
Who is the son referred to in ‘Woman, behold your son’ (John 19.26)?
March 29, 2024
Today, Good Friday, the Passion according to John will be read during the afternoon liturgy. We read those of Matthew, Mark and Luke once every three years, on Palm Sunday, but because John’s is read every year it is the most familiar. So familiar, in fact, that what is proposed here might come as something
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