Parishioners and the Spanish-speaking ministries at St. Joseph Church in Santa Ana marked Good Friday with a Passion play, a dramatic re-enactment of the Passion of Christ: the trial, suffering and ...

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is rich in symbolism, liturgical pageantry and an extra Gospel passage at the beginning of mass. This year the Sunday liturgies draw from cycle C readings, which ...

Readings (Year B): For the Palm Procession: Mark 11:1-10 (or John 12:12-16). Mass Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 14:1-15:47. We begin Holy Week ...

A reenactment of the Passion, depicting the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was staged Friday, April 7, at a Redlands church. The Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church commemorated the ...

Every Holy Week, streets across the Philippines transform into open-air stages for one of the country’s most unique and deeply rooted Catholic traditions: the “Senákulo,” a dramatic reenactment of the ...

Around 33 A.D., the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea serving under the Roman Emperor Tiberius faced a difficult choice. Go against an angry crowd or put an innocent man to death. That ...

Standing before tens of thousands of college students and young adults at Passion 2026, Jackie Hill Perry delivered a message centered on the paradox of the Christian faith: that salvation comes not ...

More than two decades ago, a Greensburg pastor asked Rick Zabrosky if he’d participate in the city’s Passion of Christ drama that had taken place for several years. Zabrosky agreed to a small role: ...

St. Monica Church in Carpentersville held its traditional live reenactment of the Passion of the Christ Friday. The 15 Stations of the Cross, which follow the story leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion in ...

For a "good Easter," Christians must do more than simply recall the passion of Jesus during Holy Week; they must "enter into the mystery" of the Easter Triduum and make Jesus' feelings and attitudes ...