Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are many different emotions and themes involved in daily prayer—humility, repentance, sorrow, cheerfulness, seeking, ...

The Easter home is a sacramental home, one that dedicates the week and the rhythms of daily life to proper spiritual ...

In November 1986, St. John Paul II visited various places in the South Pacific. In a message he gave during the Sunday Angelus prayers at Adelaide, Australia, the Pope said, “We are an Easter People ...

With Easter come some staples: Peeps, egg hunts and, for churchgoers, George Frideric Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It's the five-minute piece often sung at the end of the service on Easter. The music ...

The tulips are out. Baseball has begun. I've just made it through another Lenten journey and am now in the joyous Eastertide. As it has been for many years, the journey was an easy transition. However ...

Sometimes I feel like a tiny bird with an injured leg from an encounter with the claws of a crazed cat. I know how lucky I am to be here and how much worse things could be; yet, still, I carry a limp ...

Easter Sunday is the one day a Christian wants to be in church. Even if the pews sit near empty the rest of the year, there’s a good chance they’ll be filled on Easter Sunday. That’s not the case this ...

Yet some events on the Church calendar, like Easter Sunday, inspire prayers and blessings with a common focal point, such as encouraging believers to "raise your joys and triumphs high." Easter ...