Remembering Past Easters, Brooklyn Catholics See ‘Religion Coming Back’

Remembering Past Easters, Brooklyn Catholics See ‘Religion Coming Back’

The tradition of displaying crosses in building windows was in full swing in the 1950s. GREENPOINT — Ed Wilkinson remembers growing up in Greenpoint in the 1950s, and gazing across the East River on Good Friday to see three consecutive Manhattan skyscrapers all with lighted windows in the shape of crosses. “We were right on the water. If you went down to the river, you could see those buildings all lit up. If you went up to the rooftops, you cou…

The fact that Easter falls on the same date among Catholics and Protestants on the one hand and in the Orthodox churches on the other is unusual, but this year is the case.

The Easter celebrations of 2025 will be held in the springtime, but under a cloud of gloom. Unfortunately, this situation is giving rise to legitimate concerns that wars are on the rise, disasters and blood are spreading, while the seeds of peace are not growing; the international economic situation is mired in confusion and lack of trust; technology and screens have become the medium that replaces eye contact in interpersonal communication and …

Rome, 19 April 2025 — Easter. For Jews, the feast of Egypt's liberation from slavery; for Christians of all confessions, the feast of the Resurrection of Christ and, in him, of the liberation of the human race from eternal death. Today, Catholic and Reformed Easter, the Orthodox and Eastern Easter, coincide, and the Jewish Easter that began 8 days ago ends. The form taken in the Jewish and Christian traditions, which takes up most of an ancient …

The Orthodox world celebrates the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord. All-night services were performed in all Orthodox churches operating in Georgia. The glorious holiday of Easter is a day of great importance for all Christianity. On this day, the Savior, who atoned for the sins of mankind with His crucifixion, rose from the dead. Since then, the gates of paradise have been opened again for Adam and his descendants - Christ Himself raised A…

The Synod of Metropolitans at the Phanar of Constantinople recently brought to the fore a wish and thought, which Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has been working on for years, and which, if successful, may bring the Orthodox and Catholic Churches closer together on a purely practical issue, how the date of Easter is calculated. For centuries, Orthodox and Catholics have calculated the date of Easter differently. Some years it may be a week apa…