The Monday and Tuesday of Holy Week are known as Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday, but in Western Christianity, these days do not have widespread particular traditions or liturgy associated with them. The ...

Yom Kippur will begin Oct. 1at sunset. Here's what to know about the meaning of the Jewish holiday, customs and greetings ...

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No matter how much the Vatican rightly insists that the primary purpose of Benedict XVI's journeys outside Rome is to "strengthen the brethren"—as Christ instructed Peter to do—papal travel is ...

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 ...

Good Friday is here, but what does the holy holiday mean and is it a federally celebrated holiday? The Christian holiday arrives three days before Easter every year and kicks off one of the most ...

Last Sunday (Feb. 19), in Catholic churches all over the world, the first Scripture reading was from the 19th chapter of the Book of Leviticus, the third book of the Pentateuch, which describes the ...

Every New Year invites us to begin again. On the Jewish calendar, the Jewish New Year is the beginning of ten days that invite us to contemplate who we have been and who we are becoming. Between Rosh ...

Today marks the annual Ash Wednesday observance, a prominent date for many Christians across the globe. The annual event marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day fasting period–excluding Sundays–in which ...

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The Torah states, “V’atem tihiu li mamleches kohanim v’goy kadosh – You should be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” The million-dollar question is: What exactly does it mean to be holy?