carries a cross during a Way of the Cross reenactment as part of Holy Week celebrations, at the Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado ...

(Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) Parishioners washed each other’s feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part of the observance of Holy Week ...

Holy Week is a time during which we make our own the prayer of the Good Thief on the cross and open ourselves to Jesus’ offer of paradise. We recognize, as we sing in the Exultet at the Easter ...