These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism.

15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and ... not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men who believe in Christ ...

In the early Church, when Christians were being persecuted, Christians would use the fish symbol as a secret sign symbolising to others that they were Christians. One person would draw one arc of ...

Pope Francis, 88, is recovering from double pneumonia and is seen attending Mass in a chapel at Gemelli Hospital. The Vatican reports he is improving gradually but has not yet provided a discharge ...