BLOG: Fr. Thomas Rosica,Lent 2018,Lent and Easter
On Thursday, June 2, 2016 Salt + Light Television will be presented with its sixth Gabriel Award for Religious Television Station of the Year at the 51st Catholic Media Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Salt + Light Television is Canada’s only national, award-winning Catholic television network that offers a variety of programs, live event coverage, series, ...read more
Referring to the night of the Easter Vigil, in the Easter Proclamation (the Exsutet) we pray that “This is the night, when once you led our forebears, Israel’s children, from slavery in Egypt.” The Easter Proclamation also says that “This is the night, when Christ broke the prison-bars of death and rose victorious from the ...read more
The sun rises as people gather for an ecumenical Easter service in Scituate, Mass., March 31, 2013. (CNS photo/Jessica Rinaldi, Reuters) ...read more
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jacqueline, and their children, Caroline and John Jr., are seen on Easter Sunday in 1963. (CNS photo/Reuters) ...read more
Musicians take part in a parade during the Festa do Divino, or Festival of the Divine, in Sao Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil, May 27, 2012. The Festa do Divino is one of Brazil’s most important Catholic celebrations, marking Pentecost 50 days after Easter. (CNS photo/Roosevelt Cassio, Reuters) ...read more
Join Salt + Light for Holy Week as we prepare for the coming of Christ on Easter Sunday! See below for all shows and times, beginning on Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday Read Pope Francis’ Homily here. Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican on Sunday, March 20, 2016 – 12:00 pm ET (9:00 ...read more
Father Dmytro Dnistrian blesses Ukrainian Easter baskets filled with traditional food for Sunday’s Easter dinner at Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, April 19, 2014. (CNS photo/Todd Korol, Reuters) ...read more
Young Iraqi women attend an Easter Mass at a Chaldean Catholic church in Amman, Jordan, April 24, 2011. Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to Jordan following a spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities in the past few years. (CNS photo/Ali Jarekji, Reuters) ...read more
Salt + Light made a pilgrimage on the footsteps of Jesus in the heart of Lent and offers us reflections of the holy places we visited. In this meditation we meet at the Cenacle in Jerusalem where Jesus shared one last meal with his friends. During this Last Supper, we are confronted with Christ’s radical ...read more
Suheir Saliba, left, who is Catholic, eats cheese products to break the Lenten fast with her husband’s Greek Orthodox family on Easter in Jifna, West Bank, April 20, 2014. Christian families in the Holy Land often have members of several different religious denominations. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) ...read more