Holy Ghost PNCC

A selection of photos from Palm Sunday.

HOLY MONDAY, April 18th 7:30AM – Holy Mass in Frackville. HOLY TUESDAY, April 19th 10:00AM – Central Diocese Clergy Conference in Scranton. 4:00PM – Holy Mass of Chrism in St. Stanislaus Cathedral, Scranton, PA. — At the Holy Mass, which the bishop concelebrates with his presbyterium, and at which the oils are blessed, manifests the [...]

Yesterday afternoon we left the church in sadness, but in knowledge that Jesus had taken the pain and suffering of the world to Himself so that He could transform it and lead us to glory. Tonight we have gone back over the story of God’s people which led to the coming of Christ so that [...]

Every year in Holy Week we hear two lengthy accounts of Jesus’ passion. On Palm Sunday one of the first three Gospel narratives is proclaimed. On Good Friday we always hear the passion according St. John. It contrasts strongly with the versions read on Palm Sunday. Each story in what we call the synoptic Gospels [...]

Central to the story of the people of the Old Testament was their liberation from slavery and their ritual celebration of this each year at the feast of Passover. It was that occasion which Jesus used to inaugurate the new covenant He was to establish – a covenant that would completely transform our understanding as [...]

Traditional Easter celebrations in Poland are as old and elaborate as Christmas celebrations and they involve a lot of preparations. One week before Palm Sunday, housewives stopped baking bread through the fear that the bread they baked throughout the rest of the year would spoil. Not until the Holy Week did they start baking. In [...]

Holy Week is the last week of Lent, the week immediately preceding Easter or Resurrection Sunday. It is observed in many Christian Churches as a time to commemorate and enact the suffering (Passion) and death of Jesus through various observances and services of worship. While some church traditions focus specifically on the events of the [...]