Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

While Passover is meant to be a joyous celebration of freedom for the Jewish people, the week-long festival is liable to be a calorie trap for many participants. Matza, potatoes, chocolate, cake ...

Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.

2 volumes (xxvii, 747 pages) : 27 cm A reference guide designed especially for lay readers of the Bible, featuring nearly three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that offer ideas and facts about ...

The Feast of Tabernacles (also called Sukkot or Feast of Ingathering) originates in the Old Testament as one of Israel’s three main pilgrimage feasts, along with Passover and Pentecost. God commanded ...

Later that night, after sundown – because Passover began at sundown- the Holy Thursday Liturgy takes place, marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy ...

The Feast of Trumpets was known in Hebrew as Yom Teruah, the day of shouting or blasting. Leviticus 23:23-25 describes this feast, ordained by God, which marked the beginning of the seventh month in ...

Passover, the eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the freedom of Israelites from slavery in Egypt, kicks off with a celebratory meal called a seder. This year, the celebration begins before ...