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ordinary form divine office week i sunday, april 21 : easter sunday acts 10:34a, 37-43; ps 118; col 3:1-4; jn 20:1-9 monday, april 22 : east...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Feast at Easter
eastertide lasts for 50 days, compared to the 40 days that span lent, meaning the celebrations last longer than the fasting. it is good to b...
The Catholic Herald
Wherever we weep, the Master is here
the year turns and we celebrate easter again. yet it is not a different mystery or a new celebration simply on account of a year having pass...
Fr Dominic Allain
Easter: a season for singing and dancing
the sacred triduum is behind us, with its shadows, deprivation and purifying lamentation. renewed, we now enter a liturgical season of light...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Word this Week: Our alienation and the Father's gift
solemnity of the resurrection the scriptures throughout the easter liturgy, beginning with the easter vigil itself, tell our story. it is a ...
Bishop David McGough
Wren brought Rome to London – without ever going there
sir christopher wren by paul rabbitts shire publications, 96pp, £9.99/$14 displaying a typically victorian aversion to the classicising aest...
James Baresel
The Nobel laureate who brought the Gospel to his atheist readers
we should not be surprised if a major catholic writer reflects on the great mysteries of his faith. françois mauriac (1885-1970) was awarded...
Francis Phillips
Actually, modern churches can be beautiful
100 churches in 100 years by the twentieth century society batsford, 208pp, £25/$35 the late alice thomas ellis, contributor to this magazin...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Without Christ, poetry is also unredeemed
when the pilgrim dante has come forth at last from the jaws of hell to look upon the stars of heaven again, he does not do what the modern w...
Anthony Esolen
'We do not want pretty pictures': What Munch meant by the Scream
most people assume that the figure in edvard munch’s the scream is screaming. it’s not. it’s reacting to an event: “i felt a great scream pa...
David V Barrett
Letters & emails
no excuses for shunning the persecuted sir – john o’sullivan (cover story, april 5) refers to de facto discrimination by some governments ag...
The Catholic Herald
Bunnies, hats and parades: How Easter became a secular festival
the onset of easter – like that of christmas – always brings out a rush of nostalgia in me. but unlike the celebratory customs surrounding t...
Charles Coulombe
Everyone can find their place in the Stations of the Cross
the one enduring truth that i have come to know over the course of my life is that everybody has a cross to bear. you might never know what ...
Mary Kenny
What would the Passion sound like? Listen to Liszt's answer
it is in the approach to easter that our church’s musical life becomes richer than at any other time in the liturgical calendar. as jens f l...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Benedict's statement lays bare the Church's divisions
benedict xvi’s decision to break his silence cannot have been made lightly. at the time of his resignation, the former pope announced his in...
Matthew Schmitz
A century ago, the war was our hidden national trauma. Today it's dementia
a hundred years ago britain was in trauma: there was hardly a family in the land that had not been left bereaved by the first world war. als...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Newman is a perfect companion for Holy Week
on good friday, as catholics piously walk the via crucis, many will pray the meditations of john henry newman – and not just because he is e...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Faith has never been at odds with science
silly claims about the conflict between science and religion come thick and fast, these days. we know them to be erroneous, but the history ...
Jonathan Wright
How to tell Christ from Antichrist
why is the risen christ still wounded? in the gospel of john, the apostle thomas states that he will not believe in the resurrection, “unles...
Fr Andrew Pinsent
Here's why I'm about to become a Catholic aged 17
this saturday, at the easter vigil, i will become a member of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. at the age of 17, i will no long...
Jack Payne
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