Easter Sunday marks the end of Holy Week, the end of Lent, and the last day of the Easter Triduum (starting from the evening of Maundy Thursday through Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday), as well as the beginning of the Easter season of the liturgical year. Where Did the W...
When the Catholic and Orthodox churches separated in the 11th century, both churches calculated the date of Easter in the same way. However, the Catholic...Easter & Passover
It is believed that the Roman Catholics also celebrated the feast during the Easter season until the early 8th century. Pope Gregory III, who was pope from 731-741, dedicated a chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica for all Christian martyrs of the past centuries. It is believed that the dedicati...
In heavily Catholic Spain, wearing shorts or short skirts on certain holy days, like Easter and during week-longSemana Santafestivities, is considered disrespectful. And before the temperature rises to a reasonable point, even open-toe sandals or men’s tank tops can be considered uncouth. Learn...
As I wrote yesterday, it is strange that it has taken a non-believing clown like Donald Trump to be the Great Disrupter. We do not have to agree with everything he does …, but I believe people like me can work with people like him in ways we simply could not do with those who ...
Mama didn’t have the greenest of thumbs and she passed that gene right along to me. But I gave her flowers on Easter, her birthday and Mother’s Day anyway. She said “Why did you do that? You know I can’t keep a flower alive.” I imagined she really did like the flowers but...