Focus on Faith

1851 – 1923 FEAST April 18 Born in Siena, Italy, this foundress had a lifelong devotion to St. Catherine of Siena. As a young member of […]

1844-1879 FEAST April 16 As a child in a poor French family in the Hautes-Pyrenees town of Lourdes, Bernadette suffered both asthma and cholera. Uneducated, she […]

died 655 feast – April 13 Born in Todi and educated in Rome, this pious Italian priest was sent by Pope Theodore I as nuncio to […]

Catholics and other Christians have grown up believing in the Resurrection, but the Apostles themselves were among the first who were skeptical that Jesus arose from the dead.

The Roman Missal, which spells out specifics of how the vigil is to be celebrated, describes it as the “mother of all vigils” and says it is the “greatest and most noble of all solemnities and it is to be unique in every single church.”

The Easter Vigil, the culmination of our Lenten journey, has its root in the tradition of the Jewish Passover.
It is the pinnacle of the church’s liturgical calendar.

first century Feast Day April 9 This Mary, wife of Cleophas and mother of James the Less and Joses, witnessed the Crucifixion, helped prepare Christ’s body […]

11th century Feast Day April 9 Born in central Spain, Casilda was the daughter of the emir of Toledo. Though a Muslim, she had a reputation […]