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Your Daily Inspirational Meme: Holy Saturday
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 26, 2016 at 12:00 amHoly Saturday: 'Make Sure He's Dead'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 26, 2016 at 12:00 am Just as the Chief Priests and Pharisees gathered with Pilate to plan on keeping the tomb sealed and guarded with Christ inside, many today want to ...
We Do Not Face Death Alone
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:04 pm The serpent’s bite was a deadly one. The venom had worked its way deep into the heart of the entire human race, doing its gruesome work. The anti-venom was unavailable until He...
Catholic Quote of the Day — for Holy Saturday
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has...
Encountering the Word — Isaiah 53:5-6
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his...
The Apostles Didn’t Have Everything Figured Out
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm In his book, The Dwelling of the Light: Praying With Icons of Christ, RowanWilliams (the former archbishop of Canterbury) reflected: Orthodox theologians have said — surely...
“Knight of Cups” Dares to Name Our Spiritual Crisis
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm For Søren Kierkegaard, “life’s way” — and his own writing — followed three stages: the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious. He paid the price for his emphasis on the third...
How Holy Saturday Gives Us a Taste of Christ’s Longing
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm A couple years ago I had some business to attend to in New York City during Holy Week. It had been a difficult Lent; some days I was trying too hard, other days I was phoning it...
7 Songs for Holy Saturday
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm Human life, Benedict XVI wrote in his memoirs, is a Holy Saturday. “We are still awaiting Easter,” he reflects. “We are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it...
Holy Saturday: ...descendit ad inferos...
Rorate Coeli - Mar 25, 2016 at 10:00 pm By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive. He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry: Hell, said he, was embittered, when it...
Holy Saturday — Easter Vigil | 2016
Big C Catholics - Mar 25, 2016 at 10:00 pm May the light of Christ, rising in glory, dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.
— From the Easter Vigil Liturgy
On Holy Saturday the Church waits at the Lord's tomb,...
Italy's 'bleeding thorn' marks the coincidence of Good Friday, Annunciation
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 25, 2016 at 7:38 pm Andria, Italy, Mar 25, 2016 / 06:38 pm (CNA).- A single thorn held to have been taken from Christ's crown of thorns that traditionally 'bleeds' each time that Good Friday falls on...
"O Cross of Christ, Today Too We See You. Teach Us"
Whispers in the Loggia - Mar 25, 2016 at 7:00 pm At the close of this Good Friday night's annual Via Crucis at the Colosseum – held under heavy security, with this year's meditations written by the Italian Cardinal Gualtiero...
Pope's Way of the Cross remembers migrants, persecuted Christians
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 25, 2016 at 6:54 pm Rome, Italy, Mar 25, 2016 / 05:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the yearly Good Friday tradition set by his predecessors, Pope Francis presided over the Stations of the Cross at...
12 things you need to know about Holy Saturday
Jimmy Akin.org - Mar 25, 2016 at 5:58 pm On Holy Saturday the earth waits in stillness for the Resurrection of the Lord. Here are 9 things you need to know about it.
Everytime we say the creed, we note that Jesus “...
Virtual Stations of the Cross, Good Friday, 2016
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 4:22 pm The meditations and prayers of the Stations of the Cross for Good Friday, 2016, were prepared by Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti, Archbishop of Perugia — Città della Pieve. The full...
“O Cross of Christ”: Pope Francis’ Prayer For Good Friday
Aleteia - Mar 25, 2016 at 4:19 pm The texts of the meditations and prayers of the Stations of the Cross for 2016, found here, were assembled by the Archbishop of Perugia, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti. “God is mercy...
Asylum seekers and struggling families: a Way of the Cross with Pope Francis
Vatican Insider - Mar 25, 2016 at 4:15 pm Refugees, abused children and broken families were among Stations of the Cross’ reflections led by Pope Francis on Good Friday. During a “Way of the Cross” meditation in Rome’s...
Benedict XVI is frail but ‘perfectly lucid’, says Vatican spokesman
Catholic Herald - Mar 25, 2016 at 3:38 pm Although retired pope Benedict XVI is growing more frail, there are no particular concerns or worries regarding his health, a Vatican spokesman has said.
Fr Federico Lombardi...
Pope leads solemn Good Friday liturgy amid security concerns
Catholic Herald - Mar 25, 2016 at 3:17 pm Entering in silence and lying prostrate on the floor in front of the main altar of St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis has commemorated Jesus’s death on the Cross.
Thousands of...
