Hello and Happy Easter! Although it was celebrated remotely, Christ promises to be present wherever at…
Tag: Easter Vigil
Be “Vigil-ant”: Explaining the Church’s Longest Mass
It’s a Saturday night in early spring, and a few hundred Catholics are crowded around a…
Lenten Vigil
Jeffrey Bloechl is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, specializing in Christian and European…
Praying Through the Paschal Triduum
What exactly is the tradition we Catholics call the Easter Triduum? The Paschal Triduum is at…
Pontifical Liturgies of Triduum and Easter
The Easter Triduum is a three-day period of preparation for Easter, beginning on the evening of…
Catholicism 101: The Easter Triduum
The Catholic celebration of the Easter Triduum starts with Holy Thursday. The traditional name for this…