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by bcadmin | May 2, 2022 | Big bang, Good Friday, Holy Week/Easter, Let there be light, News, Night into day, Only Jesus | 0 |
It has been said that electricity transformed the night into day. Yet all the variations of invented light cannot overcome the darkness of evil and its shadows of sin, suffering and death. All of life’s disappointments and discouragements move like a fog to obscure the joy of life. No matter the historical achievements of the past, the complex enlightenment of the mind does not come from lofty thoughts. They are gifts from the Creator.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Good Friday, lead, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Via Crucis | 0 |
Pope Francis opted for graciousness Good Friday by inviting two women, one a nursing student named Albina and the other a nurse named Irina, one Russian and the other Ukrainian, to carry the cross during the traditional Via Crucis ceremony.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | Cross, crucifix, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, News, strength, weakness | 0 |
“When I am weak, then I am strong”; “power made perfect in weakness.” Such verses are often cited as key to spiritual growth, but do we really understand what they are talking about? Can anyone ever understand? Yes. If we couldn…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | Coliseum, Good Friday, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Via Crucis | 0 |
Though the Way of the Cross is a 14-stations meditation on Jesus’ Passion, the attention of many was on the 13th station, when a Ukrainian and a Russian woman together carried the cross, despite an uproar among many Ukrainians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, Good Friday, lead, News, Passion of Christ, Preacher of the Papal Household, St. Peter's Basilica, Triduum, Vatican | 0 |
Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Good Friday, Holy Week, lead, News, papal interview, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In a new interview published Good Friday, Pope Francis spoke about an array of issues, including the war in Ukraine, saying he is pained by the conflict and asking God for the “gift of tears” in front of such staggering suffering.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Cross, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, News, Simon of Cyrene, Stations of the Cross, The Passion | 0 |
Maybe this Good Friday, you are suffering under a cross. It may be a large cross – sickness, divorce, loneliness, infertility, or the loss of a loved one. Or it may be a small cross – a misunderstanding, changes of plans, inconveniences, or…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Good Friday, Lent, News, Paul McKibben, Pope John Paul I, Veneration of the Cross | 0 |
It’s an image and moment of Good Friday I’ll never forget. More poignantly, it’s the sound that still resonates in my mind and heart more than a decade later. I took an extended break — longer than I probably should have — that particular Good Friday f…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | 2022, Columns, Father forgive them for they know not what they do” (Lk 23:34), Good Friday, James Tissot's "The First Nail", Joseph Ratzinger, Lk 4:9-13), Mk 15:38. Lk 23:45, mocking Christ on the cross, Mt 27:51, Mt 4:5-7, News, Pope Benedict XIV's "Not Knowing What We Do – and the Cross" | 0 |
The first of Jesus’ words from the Cross, spoken almost at the very moment when the act of crucifixion was…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Church in Europe, Coliseum, Good Friday, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Way of the Cross | 0 |
According to the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Vatican’s decision to have a Ukrainian and a Russian family participate together in a Good Friday event led by Pope Francis is “offensive.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Good Friday, Holy Land, News | 0 |
Christians in the Holy Land “are in desperate need of support,” said an April 5 news release about the 2022 Good Friday Collection that continues to support the work of the Franciscans of the Holy Land.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Faith is caught, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, News, Stations of the Cross, Sunday Scriptures, Sunday Vespers, Tenebrae service, Veneration of the Cross | 0 |
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and every year during Holy Week, that took a literal meaning. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, we practically lived at church!
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