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44m ago
Christian leaders in the Holy Land have issued a Holy Week message demanding and end to the war in Gaza and Israel.
“[We] repeat our denunciation of all violent actions in the present devastating war, especially those directed at innocent civilians, and we reiterate our calls for an immediate and sustained ceasefire,” reads the message from the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in the Holy Land.
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed about 30,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials in Gaza, and driven a third of Gaza’s population to the brink of starvation.
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Catholic Herald Magazine
44m ago
The lengthiest readings of the liturgical year occur at the Liturgy of the Passion on Good Friday, when we hear the longest of Isaiah’s “servant songs” (Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12) and – after a modest chunk of Hebrews 4 and 5 – two full chapters of St John’s Gospel, taking us from Jesus setting forth across the Kidron valley to the unnamed garden where he will be arrested, to the burial of Christ by Joseph of Arimathea in a new tomb in another unnamed garden.
For much of my Dominican life I have been in Oxford, where the Passion is sung in English to the traditional Dominican tune, and more often ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
44m ago
The BBC will tonight screen the first of three hour-long episodes of its series Pilgrimage following seven celebrity pilgrims, of differing faiths and beliefs, on a spiritual journey across North Wales.
The sixth series of the BBC2 programme takes the well-known personalities along the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way.
The route celebrates Celtic early Christian saints, and concludes at Bardsey Island, or Ynys Enlli, Snowdonia’s “Isle of 20,000 saints” situated off the western tip of the Llyn Peninsula.
The series features the Catholic National Shrine at Holywell where Bishop Peter Brignall ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
44m ago
ROME – Pope Francis on Holy Thursday washed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Roman prison, notably including no men in the ritual, telling them to never tire of asking for God’s forgiveness.
Speaking off-the-cuff during his March 28 Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the Pope said, “At this moment of the supper, two episodes call our attention,” the first of which is “the washing of the feet.”
With this act, “Jesus humbles himself, Jesus with this gesture made us understand what he said, ‘I did not come to be served,’ he taught the path of service,” he said.
The second episode, Pope ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
4h ago
Today, Good Friday, the Passion according to John will be read during the afternoon liturgy. We read those of Matthew, Mark and Luke once every three years, on Palm Sunday, but because John’s is read every year it is the most familiar. So familiar, in fact, that what is proposed here might come as something of a shock.
Who is the “son” referred to when Jesus says to Mary “woman, behold your son” (John 19.26)? The answer seems obvious, that it is the beloved disciple. Jesus says to Mary “behold your son” and to the disciple “behold your mother”. The statements are almost identical twins. And th ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
20h ago
ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week, Pope Francis offered an extended reflection on the spiritual underpinnings of so-called “Catholic guilt”, a by now almost notorious concept associated by many (especially critics of Catholicism) with an almost compulsive need to feel overly guilty for any perceived offense.
He addressed the ancient tradition in Christianity called “compunction”, meaning a sense of remorse and repentance for one’s sins that for centuries has been a source of reflection by the Catholic Church’s most celebrated minds, many of whom are saints.
Pope Francis dedicated ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
22h ago
This year’s Easter celebrations at St Illtyd’s Catholic Church in Wales have received an additional boost with the church being granted funding for urgent repairs costing nearly a million pounds.
The roof at St Illtyd’s Church and Community Centre in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, has deteriorated at an alarming rate, leading to more and more leaks within the Grade II Listed building, notes the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
The church has been forced to rope-off parts of the building, due to falling debris from the roof. Rainwater is also causing extensive damage to the fabric of the sacred building ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
22h ago
At Christmas, you may hesitate between turkey, beef, ham or goose, but at Easter it just has to be lamb.
In the UK, lambs are slaughtered at six months or older, which makes them a very different animal from the small, light-coloured, milk-fed lambs of Greece and Italy.
A leg can weigh between 4lb and 7lb, and a larger leg should feed eight to ten people. Basting the joint during roasting with a wine and anchovy sauce flavours the meat and yields a lovely gravy.
Some homemade stock will help to make it richer. How pink should the meat be? Some like it rare, but longer, slower cooki ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
23h ago
At Christmas, you may hesitate between turkey, beef, ham or goose, but at Easter it just has to be lamb.
In the UK, lambs are slaughtered at six months or older, which makes them a very different animal from the small, light-coloured, milk-fed lambs of Greece and Italy.
A leg can weigh between 4lb and 7lb, and a larger leg should feed eight to ten people. Basting the joint during roasting with a wine and anchovy sauce flavours the meat and yields a lovely gravy.
Some homemade stock will help to make it richer. How pink should the meat be? Some like it rare, but longer, slower cooki ..read more
Catholic Herald Magazine
1d ago
NEW YORK – A Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita who served as an Army chaplain in both World War II and the Korean war, risking his life to minister to troops on the front lines, will soon have a permanent statue in his honour at the state Capitol in Kansas.
On 22 March, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed Senate Bill 431, which directs the Capitol Preservation Committee to create a memorial honouring Father Emil Joseph Kapaun at the state Capitol. The bill passed through both chambers of the Kansas Legislature with unanimous votes.
“The Diocese is thrilled to witness the desire of the peo ..read more