As Lent, a time of self-examination, comes to an end, many Christians observe Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. “It’s typically a day for quiet reflection and preparation for the ...

Holy Saturday is the final day of Holy Week. It is when Christians all over the world prepare to celebrate and observe the resurrection of their lord and savior Jesus Christ. The day also concludes ...

Editor’s Note: The following excerpts are from “The Art of Holy Week” segment on Register Radio’s March 29, 2025, episode. Register Radio host Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director of ...

Everyone knows that Easter takes place in the spring each year, but do you know what the day before Easter is called? It’s Holy Saturday. While Easter Sunday is filled with happiness and celebration, ...

Holy Saturday, also known as Easter Eve, is one of the most solemn and meaningful days in the Christian calendar. Observed between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, it marks a moment of waiting, ...

Holy Saturday carries deep theological and spiritual significance within the Christian faith. It is a day of waiting and contemplation, representing a period of darkness and uncertainty following ...

The long Holy Saturday life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger will mark a final milestone this April 16. Unless he lives until 106, his 95th birthday will be the last time his calendar birthday and his ...

“To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet ...

Good Friday was restless. The gospels tell of mobs and clamor, judgement and shouts of “crucify, crucify!” Then a painful struggling walk through narrow, crowded streets to the Skull, Golgatha, the ...

This year, the holidays fall earlier than before. Holy Week began on Monday, March 25, and Easter will be celebrated on the last day of the month, March 31. There is a strict fast on Good Friday, on ...

As we prepare to celebrate the joy of Easter on March 31, we pause to reflect on Holy Saturday, when there is no liturgy and with the altar stripped bare, we wait in silence. We asked our panelists: ...

We spend most of our lives in Holy Saturday. For the most, part our daily lives are not moments of sheer, abject terror—like Good Friday. Nor are they moments of delirious exaltation—like Easter ...