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, ...

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 ...

The former apostolic nuncio to the United States issues appeal during “these modern times of terrible tribulation” when the “Evil One has gone into a frenzy,” multiplying attacks tempting “souls into ...

One of the key traditions for Holy Saturday is confession, which can be done before Easter Sunday. If you are unable to take communion during the Easter service, Holy Saturday offers a chance to do so ...

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 ...

This afternoon, at the vesperal liturgy, Father Matthew scattered bay leaves around the church, an Orthodox custom symbolizing Christ’s harrowing of Hell on Holy Saturday. Holy Week in Orthodoxy is so ...

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 ...

There is a rhythm woven into everything. It pulses in the rising and setting sun, the budding and falling of leaves, the birth and the letting go of each living thing. This rhythm — life, death and ...

Check out all 75 Holy Saturday blessings listed below, and feel free to share them with your friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members as a way to spread the peace, hope and love that this ...