Meskel is a Geez word ... The slaughter itself is part of the feast. An elder male blesses the animal with the sign of the cross, a request that God save the people in the coming year and provide ...

And that’s what we learn from today’s feast. When we exalt the cross, we’re not exalting that instrument of hatred, violence and death; we’re exalting how Jesus transformed that instrument ...

Today we step aside from the usual sequence of readings for the Sundays in Ordinary Time to celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Since many Catholic institutions (schools ...

Honoring the cross on which Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, the feast follows the Christian liturgical calendar. The event, also called The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is ...

the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14. A 15th- or 16th-century wooden cross is kept in the Church of the Holy Cross in Montemaggiore Belsito on the Italian island of Sicily ...

The feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Santu Kruċ) is today being celebrated with solemnity by the collegiate basilica dedicated to St Helen in Birkirkara. Mass at Tal-Ħerba Sanctuary will ...

The Feast of Epiphany was observed on Saturday, Jan. 6, and Sunday, Jan. 7, at Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church, Buttonwood, Hanover Twp., celebrating the visit of the Three Kings to the infant ...

devotees and the uninitiated both Christians and of other religions and creeds towards the Feast of the Holy Cross at the quaint little Chapel of Santa Cruz on Malim Hill, are the factors that ...