Veronica Kochinski’s husband makes homemade horseradish with hand-ground red beets for the family’s Easter baskets every year. The family, of McMurray, this year celebrated the basket blessing at ...

Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church in Olyphant held its annual tradition of the blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday, March 30. Many families brought the traditional Ukrainian ...

St. John the Evangelist Church, 2640 Park Drive: Easter Vigil at 8 p.m. March 30 in the church. Easter services on March 31 are Holy Eucharist Rite I, spoken, at 8 a.m.; Sunday school at 9 a.m.; ...

MAHANOY CITY — In an annual Eastertime tradition, Rev. Giuseppe Esposito blessed several baskets of food Thursday at City Seafood and Steak House. Dousing the baskets with Holy water, he read passages ...

OLYPHANT, Pa. — A big part of Easter for many is filling baskets, and in Lackawanna County, those baskets had the opportunity to be blessed. The annual blessing took place this afternoon at Ss. Cyril ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Easter is a holiday celebrated by billions all over the world, including staff and guests at the St. Francis House in Sioux Falls. Sunday, they gave the neighborhood a nice ...

Over the years, I've often written about our family's tradition on Holy Saturday morning having our Easter food baskets blessed on the altar of our small town church. All three of my published "From ...

dozen large, woven baskets lined with green straw were filled with dyed eggs, lamb-shaped butter, sausage, salt and horseradish. “The green liner represents the coming of spring, and the resurrection ...

The Lenten season ends this week and South Jersey churches are preparing to open for blessings of foods and nighttime vigils on Holy Saturday and on Easter Sunday itself both in-church worship and ...