What's so good about Good Friday?

By Heidi Schlumpf| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons

It's almost as if Mel Gibson's The Passion has come to life. In Chicago's largely Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood, some 7,000 people gather at Providence of God Parish for the beginning of the Via Crucis or "Way of the Cross" every Good Friday. This is no symbolic walk through the park, however; "Pontius Pilate" is dressed in Roman garb, as are the soldiers who accompany "Jesus" the 12 blocks to Harrison Park, where he will be literally tied to a cross.

Heidi Schlumpf, a former editor at U.S. Catholic, is an associate professor of communications at Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois and author of While We Wait: Spiritual and Practice Advice for Those Trying to Adopt. See more posts by Heidi Schlumpf

Kite rite

By Elizabeth Wells| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Looking for a good metaphor for the spiritual journey this Lent and Easter? Go fly a kite!
See more posts by Elizabeth Wells

Kite rite

By Elizabeth Wells| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Looking for a good metaphor for the spiritual journey this Lent and Easter? Go fly a kite!
See more posts by Elizabeth Wells

Are we there yet?

By Bryan Cones| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Even Jesus had to spend some time--Holy Saturday to be exact--waiting to see if things were going to work out. In this column from the archives, Bryan Cones explores the importance of the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

What will you be doing April 15?

Bryan Cones is a writer living in Boston. See more posts by Bryan Cones

Are we there yet?

By Bryan Cones| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Even Jesus had to spend some time--Holy Saturday to be exact--waiting to see if things were going to work out. In this column from the archives, Bryan Cones explores the importance of the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

What will you be doing April 15?

Bryan Cones is a writer living in Boston. See more posts by Bryan Cones

Three of a kind

By Mary Ann Perga| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
The selfless gift of the Eucharist, the selfless death of Jesus, and the Resurrection are all one great act of love from God.
See more posts by Mary Ann Perga

Three of a kind

By Mary Ann Perga| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
The selfless gift of the Eucharist, the selfless death of Jesus, and the Resurrection are all one great act of love from God.
See more posts by Mary Ann Perga

Lost and found

By Catherine O'Connell-Cahill| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Death and life often travel hand in hand on the Christian journey.

Brother's son and his wife just had their first baby, a little boy. His name is Colin David, David being my brother, who died of cancer when his son was only 3 years old.

Catherine O’Connell-Cahill is senior editor of U.S. Catholic.

See more posts by Catherine O'Connell-Cahill

Lost and found

By Catherine O'Connell-Cahill| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Death and life often travel hand in hand on the Christian journey.

Brother's son and his wife just had their first baby, a little boy. His name is Colin David, David being my brother, who died of cancer when his son was only 3 years old.

Catherine O’Connell-Cahill is senior editor of U.S. Catholic.

See more posts by Catherine O'Connell-Cahill

I could have prayed all night

By Catherine O'Connell-Cahill| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Saints, Feasts, and Seasons
Visiting seven churches in the late hours of Holy Thursday is sure to awaken the spirit.

Catherine O’Connell-Cahill is senior editor of U.S. Catholic.

See more posts by Catherine O'Connell-Cahill

Pages