coinciding with the Jewish Sabbath, a day of rest. Those traveling, preparing for the Seder feast or performing pre-Passover traditions like the ridding of leavened foods had to do so in the days ...

There can’t be many days less 'suitable' for advance polls than Passover, the Sabbath, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, can there?

The weekly cycle recalls the seven days of creation; the Jubilee presses the reset button, as it were, to return to the ...

And claiming authority over it It is true that the Catholic Church through the authority of Christ replaced the Hebrew Sabbath (Saturday) with the Lord's Day (Sunday); however, this occurred very ...

St. Augustine once prayed, “…for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you” (Catechism of the Catholic ... day is the Sabbath of complete rest, sacred ...

He continued: “Growing up Catholic, in a Catholic household, my mom did not appreciate Black Sabbath. One day when I came home ... “To be able to rest on your laurels and say, ‘People ...

Even as religious adherence waned and Sabbath observance plummeted in Christian societies after the Second World War, the setting aside of a special day once a week – 24 hours of rest ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

Holy Saturday falls between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, marking the solemn time when Jesus was in the tomb after his ...