Laetare Jerusalem et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam; gaudete cum laetitia, qui in tristitia fuistis, ut exsultetis et satiemini ab uberibus consolationis vestrae. Psalm: Laetatus sum in his ...

This Sunday, the Church comes to the middle of Lent. She marks the occasion by calling for a small pre-Easter celebration of joy. Today is called Laetare Sunday in Latin, with the word laetare meaning ...

The Catholic Church is currently observing the season of Lent, a period when the faithful renew their faith and prepare for the resurrection of Jesus Christ through prayer, fasting, and acts of ...

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns ’78, H’02, whose distinguished career in international diplomacy spanned four presidential administrations, will be the ...

Laetare is Latin for “rejoice,” and it comes from the entrance antiphon of today’s Mass: “Rejoice, O Jerusalem!” (Isaiah 60:10). We have crossed the halfway point of Lent, and the Church encourages us ...

The University of Notre Dame is awarding the prestigious Laetare medal, an honor reserved exclusively for American Catholics, to Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics. The university announced ...

Connell School of Nursing Dean Katherine Gregory will be the speaker at the Boston College Alumni Association event on March 27 Boston College’s 71st annual Laetare Sunday celebration—the BC Alumni ...

To good Roman Catholics, Lent means 40 days of fast, abstinence, prayer, penitential works. Three Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ’s Passion.