This flower-bedecked cross that stood vigil overnight in 2024 greeted worshipers on Easter morning as they entered the Sanctuary of First Lutheran Church, 1701 19th St., Parkersburg. The cross will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Holy Week marks the final week of Lent for Christians and leads up to Easter Sunday. In 2026, Holy Week runs from Palm Sunday on ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over the course of that year. The Jubilee of Hope is, therefore, like a fresh ...

Servers carry an urn of sacred oil during Pope Francis’s Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 6, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week, Pope ...

(RNS) — Tomorrow, all around the world, members of the Church of Jesus Christ will not have Sunday School, Relief Society or priesthood meetings. Children and youth will not meet in the second hour of ...

Mass of the Last Supper, 7 p.m., Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 254 East Fifth Ave. Good Friday, April 18 Passion play, 11 a.m., Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 254 East Fifth Ave. Liturgy, noon, St Mark ...

The closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Holy Week has sparked fears that biblical prophecies about the Antichrist may be coming to pass. Constructed under Roman Emperor Constantine, the ...

Holy Week marks the final week of Lent for Christians and leads up to Easter Sunday. In 2026, Holy Week runs from Palm Sunday on March 29 through Easter Sunday on April 5, commemorating the events ...