Christians once again filled the streets of Qaraqosh for Palm Sunday: Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from Beirut, led the procession of more than 20,000 people. The celebration was a stark contrast to ...
Jesus obeyed the most challenging of commandments: to love one's enemies; and he invites humanity to do the same by breaking a vicious cycle of evil, sorrow and hatred with love and forgiveness, Pope Francis ...
A suicide bomb attack on a Catholic cathedral compound shattered the calm of Palm Sunday Mass, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people wounded. A destroyed motorbike and the body parts of a man ...
A Christian life should be filled with amazement -- astonishment at the son of God suffering and dying for humanity and awe at realizing how precious and loved people are in his eyes, Pope Francis ...
Timothy O’Malley prepares us this week for the celebration of Palm Sunday. Tim says, “Palm Sunday seeks to shake us out of this overly familiar posture toward the central mystery of salvation. As the death ...
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert reflects on Palm Sunday to the foot of the Cross. A priest once said in his homily, “Some of those who greeted Christ with loud hosannas as he entered Jerusalem ...
With a small procession down the vast and empty central nave of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis began the first of a series of Holy Week liturgies celebrated without the presence of the faithful from ...
Don't expect any palms this Passion Sunday. And distribution of palms later in the year might not happen, either, according to Rita Thiron, executive director of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. There has been ...
In the Opening the Word for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Timothy P. O’Malley writes that in the Year of COVID-19, there will be silence in churches throughout the world, a priest or two ...
Acclaimed by the crowds and knowing he was the Messiah they sought, Jesus still chose the path of humility and self-emptying, focused only on doing God's will, Pope Francis said on Palm Sunday.
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