As Lent, a time of self-examination, comes to an end, many Christians observe Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. “It’s typically a day for quiet reflection and preparation for the ...

Holy Saturday is the final day of Holy Week. It is when Christians all over the world prepare to celebrate and observe the resurrection of their lord and savior Jesus Christ. The day also concludes ...

Many devout Christians spend the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday attending a variety of services. We also know from Scripture a number of things Jesus did during his last week on Earth—who ...

Everyone knows that Easter takes place in the spring each year, but do you know what the day before Easter is called? It’s Holy Saturday. While Easter Sunday is filled with happiness and celebration, ...

I climb alone into the car and start the engine. I am standing in the line at the grocery store — alone among strangers. Those five minutes of being early — nothing to do and no one to talk to.

Holy Saturday, also known as Easter Eve, is one of the most solemn and meaningful days in the Christian calendar. Observed between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it marks a moment of waiting, ...

The long Holy Saturday life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger will mark a final milestone this April 16. Unless he lives until 106, his 95th birthday will be the last time his calendar birthday and his ...

Holy Saturday carries deep theological and spiritual significance within the Christian faith. It is a day of waiting and contemplation, representing a period of darkness and uncertainty following ...

“To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet ...

As we prepare to celebrate the joy of Easter on March 31, we pause to reflect on Holy Saturday, when there is no liturgy and with the altar stripped bare, we wait in silence. We asked our panelists: ...

Good Friday was restless. The gospels tell of mobs and clamor, judgement and shouts of “crucify, crucify!” Then a painful struggling walk through narrow, crowded streets to the Skull, Golgatha, the ...

Everyone knows that Easter takes place in the spring each year, but do you know what the day before Easter is called? It’s Holy Saturday. While Easter Sunday is filled with happiness and celebration, ...