SEASONS & CELEBRATIONS

Keeping the Feast column: Fat Tuesday recipe with a quiche and a prayer

In kitchens throughout the Christian world, the countdown to Lent – which begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14 – is underway. That being the case, countless meatless recipes are under serious scrutiny.

Keeping the Feast column: On Ash Wednesday, try salmon and potato cakes

In preparation for adding new Lenten recipes to Keeping the Feast every year, I review past columns which, including print and internet editions, go back 16 years. Doing so sheds a lot of light on ever-evolving culinary trends as well as how faith and food can work hand in hand …

Keeping the Feast Column: Coconut curry brings taste of Church of India to table

Over the years, many wonderful friends have volunteered in the mission fields and brought back not only moving stories of their time but great recipes to share as well. One of the first to do so spent a year in Kerala, India, and returned with great insights about the Saint …

Keeping the Feast Column: Emptying the fridge can lead to hearty soup

There are few things I enjoy more than watching Jacques Pépin cook on public television. Pépin, whose most recent book is “Heart and Soul in the Kitchen,” conveys such love of family and food and his recipes are so warmly adaptable that it often seems like a favorite uncle has …

Viewing opportunities announced for Holy Week and Easter

Several key Masses and services during Holy Week and Easter will be available for online and television viewing.

Keeping the Feast Column: Green Soup and potato pancakes a Triduum tradition to savor

Before “The Sound of Music” debuted on Broadway or morphed into one of the most enduring movies of all time, there was a real von Trapp family. I was so very fortunate to learn their story secondhand from the father of a good friend way back when.

What's the buzz? A live version of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' on Easter

WASHINGTON  -- Television viewers on Easter weekend will be pulled from the Old Testament on Holy Saturday to the New Testament on Easter.

FAITH ALIVE -- Easter

Being witnesses to the good news of Easter means being able and willing simply to share a bit of our story, to give testimony from our experience.

Nationally televised Easter Mass to feature Diocese of Trenton, St. Catharine Church

On Easter Sunday, as an anticipated 4 million plus viewers from around the United States tune in to the national televised Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord, they will be taken to Spring Lake, NJ, and the unique church thought to be among the most beautiful sites along the …

At Easter Vigil, Bishop O'Connell preaches on the promise of the Messiah; new members celebrated

In the Trenton Diocese, churches were full March 31 with countless faithful eagerly awaiting the moment when the dark hours marking the Death of Jesus give way to the light of his return. In just two of those churches, Trenton’s St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral and St. Barnabas, Bayville, …

Hope of Easter breaks routine, renews lives, Pope says during Vigil

VATICAN CITY – Truly celebrating Easter means allowing Jesus to triumph over personal fears and give life to hope, creativity and care for others, Pope Francis said. Easter is "an invitation to break out of our routines and to renew our lives, our decisions and our existence," the Pope said …

Hope of Easter breaks routine, renews lives, Pope says during Vigil

VATICAN CITY – Truly celebrating Easter means allowing Jesus to triumph over personal fears and give life to hope, creativity and care for others, Pope Francis said. Easter is "an invitation to break out of our routines and to renew our lives, our decisions and our existence," the Pope said …

On Easter Sunday, Pope talks on the power of love, which renews the world

VATICAN CITY – Easter makes it clear that in the life of Jesus, but also in the lives of modern men and women, "death, solitude and fear" do not have the last word, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter blessing.

Watch the nationally televised Easter Sunday Mass with Bishop O'Connell

The nationally televised Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord aired early Easter Sunday morning – this year taking a local turn as Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., served as principal celebrant and homilist.

Joy, peace, gratitude highlight Easter morning celebrations around Diocese

Joining their brothers and sisters around the world in celebrating the risen Lord, the Diocese’s faithful reflected on joy and peace in the Resurrection during the Easter morning Masses they attended with family and friends. “I think it is the pinnacle of joy, of hope,” said Dorothy O’Hara of St. …


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