Nothing is quite as nice as an Easter Sunday sunrise service on a New England small-town beach. One year during my ministry, I was in charge of officiating such a service, and on that morning ...

The return of intermittent rain on Sunday, March 31 didn’t dampen the faith of worshipers, but it did shift some services and celebrations indoors and sent other participants under tents and umbrellas ...

This Easter many are thankfully experiencing another kind of resurrection: rising to a new life in this life, a life free from the threat of death by a deadly virus. We now joyfully watch it recede in ...

Find today’s readings here. The Lectionary bookends the Lenten season with lovely irony. On Ash Wednesday, just before we smear our foreheads with the sign of our penitence, Jesus in the Gospel ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dear Heavenly Father, thank You so much for the cross. Through the work of Jesus on those two simple ...

Easter, which is not a fixed date, will be observed this year on March 31. The holiday is celebrated on the ‘first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon occurring either on ...

As previously noted, the Church’s greatest and most important liturgy of the year is the Paschal Vigil. It has pride of place. It is not just a long version of “Sunday Mass.” In the ancient Church, ...

Every year during Holy Week I find myself thinking about the time a friend of mine (I'll call him Thomas) was publicly assaulted, about how he was charged with heresy and effectively canceled. And, ...

Nothing is quite as nice as an Easter Sunday sunrise service on a New England small-town beach. One year during my ministry, I was in charge of officiating such a service, and on that morning ...