Across the Diocese: Easter Sunday
April 30, 2025
This year, Easter Sunday was celebrated on April 20. Across the Diocese of Youngstown, parishes joyfully celebrated the risen Lord.
Category: Easter
Across the diocese: Good Friday
April 30, 2025
Good Friday is a day of somber reflection and quiet prayer. The Good Friday liturgy contains three distinctive parts: the proclamation of the Passion and Solemn Intercessions; the Adoration of the Holy Cross; and Holy Communion.
Across the Diocese: Holy Thursday
April 30, 2025
This photo essay highlights how parishes across the Diocese of Youngstown celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Across the Diocese: Easter Vigil
April 30, 2025
See photos from the Easter Vigil at two parishes: St. Ann Parish in Sebring and St. Patrick Parish in Youngstown.
What time is it?
April 1, 2025
When I moved into the bishop’s house, I was delighted to discover a working, ticking grandfather clock. Every 15minutes,
Easter Tables of Northeastern Ohio
April 1, 2025
From days of meal preparation to the Blessing of Easter baskets, the traditions of ethnic parish communities in the Diocese of Youngstown are both rich and diverse.
Where did the Easter Bunny come from?
April 1, 2025
While not quite as ubiquitous as Santa Claus is for Christmas, the Easter Bunny is one of the modern
Reader Resources: April 2025
April 1, 2025
The 50 days of the season of Easter begin on Easter Sunday, April 20, and will run through the month of May. Below are resources to help increase your understanding of the joyous Easter season.
From the Editor: April 2025
April 1, 2025
“We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song!” said Saint Augustine of Hippo. Indeed, Easter is the capstone of the liturgical year—an event we look forward to throughout each preceding season. Regardless of the season, we get a small taste of Easter when we gather around the holy table at Mass, and as such, Easter and food and tradition are at the core of who we are.
Easter at McFarland Manor
March 1, 2025
Eighth-graders in the CCD program at St. Nicholas School in Struthers visited residents of McFarland Manor Retirement House, in preparation for Easter 1989.
