‘Easter a cause to celebrate just like Christmas’
Easter Sunday should be celebrated with as much joy as Christmas since it marks the end of darkness and the start of new life with Jesus Christ, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma said yesterday.
Easter Sunday should be celebrated with as much joy as Christmas since it marks the end of darkness and the start of new life with Jesus Christ, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma said yesterday.
Hundreds of Christians streamed through the cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, hoisting wooden crosses and chanting prayers to mark the crucifixion of Jesus.
President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday exhorted Filipinos to be selfless like Christ, saying the country has managed to rise from a nine-year-long “fall” under the Arroyo administration by following His example.
Don’t have yourselves crucified. The head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Tuesday urged devout Filipinos not to have themselves nailed to a cross, not unlike Jesus Christ, during Holy Week.
Last Sunday the Catholic Church celebrated Palm Sunday which ushered in the Holy Week. Wile many are planning a vacation during the long weekend, we should not lose sight of the our spiritual duties in remembering the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ.
The “passion” refers to the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
The narrative is read during Palm Sunday Mass. It is also sung, chanted, read aloud, acted out in stage plays and street dramas, made into movies and immortalized in all forms of cultural expression as part of Christian tradition.
The passion and death of Jesus Christ will once again be aired live over dyRF Radio Fuerza in the observance of the Holy Week.
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle urged devotees of the Black Nazarene to reflect on their relationship with God and challenged them to become witnesses of His love, which has been manifested in the image of the suffering Jesus Christ.
Pilgrims celebrate Christmas Day Mass in the ancient Bethlehem church where tradition holds Jesus was born, candles illuminating the sacred site and joyous prayer filling its halls.
Thousands of Palestinians and tourists were flocking to the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday to mark Christmas at the site where many believe Jesus Christ was born.
A US professor has caused a sensation in Rome where she spoke about an ancient papyrus fragment that refers to the “wife” of Jesus, but the theory that Christ could have been married is seen with great skepticism in the Vatican and by historians.
President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday compared the resuscitation of the country’s economy and the winning fight against corruption to the resurrection of Jesus Christ more than 2,000 years ago.
To see parts of historic objects associated with the last days of Jesus Christ on earth was an answered prayer for Rowena Hitutua.
