Use Catholic Answers built-in “find a church near me” by putting in your zip code, city, or address. This is a great way to start your Lenten journey.Prayers for Ash WednesdayThere are a few prayers traditionally associated with Ash Wednesday in the Catholic Church.Ash Wednesday CollectThe...
Holy Week Schedule 2025 | Find a Church Near You Here’s a schedule of Holy Week 2025. Use our convenient search “Find a Church Near Me” so you can participate in the important events of Holy Week. April 13: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord ...
February this year is a transitional month as far as the Church year is concerned. After two Sundays of Ordinary Time, the season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on Feb. 17. The liturgical color transitions from green to the penitential violet. As the season of Lent in preparation for Ea...
If anyone knows that artist that is responsible for this beautiful icon please tell me and I will credit him/her in this post. Icon found on Wikipedia and originates at St. Spyridon Orthodox Church in Loveland, Colorado (thanks to them for posting the image of this magnificent icon). A ...
Odilia founded Hohenburg Abbey. She died of natural causes on Dec. 13, 720 at Niedermunster, Mount Sainte Odile and was buried near the Odilienberg convent church chapel. She often is depicted as an abbess praying at an alter or as a woman with two books for eyes. ...
(Adrienne Frank’s Mass intention) I could see a bright Light coming through a window in a church near the ceiling. This was a sign to me that she is now in heaven. Adrienne said: “I am grateful to be released from purgatory with this Mass, and I am happy to be in heaven with ...
In Volume 6, page 123 of his work “Castes And Southern India“, Edgar Thurston quotes what Philippus Baldaeus, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church said concerning the Paravas: The Paruas being sorely oppress’d by the Mahometan, one John de Crus, a Native of Malabar, but who had...
The Roman Catholic Mass- an introduction to the "Order of Mass," with the full texts of all the parts spoken by the congregation, and some brief explanations to help you better understand and participate in the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Church. ...
God it seems has a strange way of answering prayers. It seems that all these years of studying, have prepared me for this particular time in my life. I have not been able to feel God’s presence at all. Not in prayer. Not in Church. Not even in the Eucharist. But I am not exper...
Dust, as to the visible part; and thy soul created out of nothing. This might serve to correct that pride, by which Adam had fallen; and the same humbling truths are repeated to us by the Church every Ash-Wednesday, to guard us against the same contagion, the worm of pride, to which...