Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass at St. Peter’s Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a ...

and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the sepulchre. Lord Jesus Christ, in your burial you have taken on ...

On Saturday, we come to be present to its aftermath. We stand at the tomb shut tight. We bear witness to the lament of Mary holding Jesus’s corpse, holding in our hearts the devastation of ...

NARRATOR: Jesus was put to death on the cross on Good Friday. After he died, his body was placed in a tomb and sealed tight by an enormous, heavy stone. A stone is rolled into place, covering the ...

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.” Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000 year-old olive ...