Religion: The most important day of the year | Gilroy Dispatch | Gilroy, California

In a dense theological reflection formulated for his Easter message published on April 14, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople considered ...

Religion: The most important day of the year | Gilroy Dispatch | Gilroy, California

This Sunday, April 20, Christians throughout the world celebrate Easter, the resurrection of Jesus. For Christians, Easter is the most important day of the year (Christmas is a distant second) and this year all Christians celebrate it on the same day.  The date of Easter was set in the year 325 at a Church Council in Nicaea, in modern-day Turkey. (We commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of that council this year.) The date of Easter was set as th…

The Vatican is in prayer for the Jubilee Year 2025. It is a time of pilgrimages, indulgences, great liturgical celebrations and spiritual renewal. But it is also a time of symbolic gestures and strong messages. One of them, of particular importance, may be the commemoration of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. This event, although rooted in the seemingly distant 4th century, does not cease The article 1700th anniversary of the Cou…