Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the holiest week of the Church year. During this week, we walk with Jesus through His final days before His crucifixion, following Him step by step as the story of our salvation unfolds. The tone of the week begins with joy as we remember His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Like the crowds in the Gospels, we take up palm branches and cry out, “Hosanna,” proclaiming Jesus as the King of Kings and remembering His ultimate victory over death. We also...

Holy Week is one of the most beautiful and solemn weeks of the entire Church year. It is a time to slow down and enter in more intentionally, walking through the final days of Jesus’ earthly life and allowing the rhythm of the Church and its liturgy to shape our homes, our habits, and our hearts. After the long path of Lent, Holy Week invites us not simply to remember what happened long ago, but to participate in it in a real and present way. The Church gives us this week as a gift, not to...

On March 25, we celebrate one of the most incredible mysteries of our faith, the Annunciation, when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and proclaimed that she would conceive and bear the Son of God. This day marks the very moment of the Incarnation when God Himself took on flesh within Mary’s womb. The Church proclaims with awe: Today is the beginning of our salvation, God is come among men; He who cannot be contained is contained in a womb; the timeless enters time. A great...