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 ...

When it comes to the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, you’d be forgiven if you thought of it as “Egg Hunt Day.” Holy Saturday isn’t a part of many church traditions, even when Easter, or the ...

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 ...

we too might live in newness of life. For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified ...

Holy Saturday, the day immediately after Jesus Christ was put to death on Good Friday and before His resurrection on Easter Sunday, is not just a day of sadness, but also a reminder of God's promises, ...

In his apostolic letter for the beginning of the Year of St. Joseph, Pope Francis cites Polish author Jan Dobraczyński. The Holy Father explains that his novel, The Shadow of the Father, “uses the ...

‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness” (Gn 1:3-4). It can be easy to think of Holy Saturday as a kind of nothing day ...

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, ...

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 ...

A harrow is a spiked implement that is drawn over plowed land to break up clods, tear up weeds, and level the ground for planting. Knowing that bit of agricultural technology gives our figurative use ...

Easter Sunday brings the 90th birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who was born on Schulstraße 11 in Marktl am Inn, Germany, at 8:30 in the morning. It was Holy Saturday, making the future pontiff ...