The Good Friday liturgy commemorates the apex of Christ’s passion with a remembrance of his crucifixion and death at Calvary. The Good Friday Reproaches are a series of antiphons, known also as the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Friday was celebrated by Christians around the globe as Good Friday, and Holy Cross Parish in Springfield was among several local churches that held a live ‘Stations of the ...

A man, portraying Jesus, carries a cross down a neighborhood street during a 2019 live re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross outside All Saints Catholic Church in Houston on Good Friday. (CNS ...

Easter is on Sunday, March 31, this year, but those celebrating the holiday religiously will start much earlier. The Friday before Easter is known to Catholics as Good Friday and honors the ...

It is Good Friday, the most solemn day of the year. Pity the preachers who, year in and year out, must participate in the recitation of the passion account, which invites silence more than anything, ...

The campus of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church was filled Friday with parishioners and others taking part in the Pilgrimage Way of the Cross walk. The crowds arrived at 5:30 a.m. for the ...

William Byrd wrote music for the Anglican Church during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He also wrote music expressing his own Catholic faith, which was prohibited in Protestant England. Byrd’s ...

The Vance family is in Rome April 18-20. U.S. Vice President JD Vance (right) and his family attend the Vatican’s Liturgy for the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday, April 18, 2025.