Yesterday morning when I got to St Paul's parish around 7am as usual to prepare for 7.30am Mass, I discovered that I had forgotten to bring my Mass folder (with prayers, Gospel etc in Romanised Chinese). Thanks to the gift of 2 good legs I was able to go back to the Dr Jesus Ce...
This was exemplified when we held our formal CEC blessing and Mass in July. It was an amazing day beginning with a blessing of the Catholic Ecology Center by Bishop Schuerman of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and followed by fun, family activities, culminating with an outdoor Mass with the Bish...
A passage from the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew, from today’s Mass for the Monday of the First Week of Lent: Matthew 25: 31-46 “But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty...
So far as the Orthodox Churches are concerned it does not appear that the solicitude for reunion is very marked, at least among the rulers and the great mass of the populations. During the last half-century some members of the High Church section of the Anglican party, and likewise some me...
Long Island cardiac patients in need of a heart transplant will be able to seek services from the highly rated NewYork-Presbyterian heart program under a clinical collaboration agreement reached with Catholic Health , the two institutions announced in a news release . ...
While we were praying, day by day, in the Holy Mass, and before the most Holy Sacrament ; while in Rome households were saying at the first hour of night the Litany of our Blessed Mother, with an invocation of St. Peter and St. Paul for the protection of the City; the head of ...
We offer up our lives and our sufferings formally, in the Mass, by consciously offering ourselves up with our sufferings, along with Christ to God the Father during the Offertory. Informally, we “offer it up” simply by asking God, in the midst of our suffering, to join our suffering to...
See dogma. A new Proper for the Mass for the day shows Mary in her bodily glory. The Introit begins, ‘A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars†Apocalypse XII 1.â...
My altar spoke to how Israel has reduced northern Gaza–and beyond–to a mass of unrecognizable rubble, not even ruins, and how its range of victims is wide and intentionally targeting protected classes of people as well as illegally fighting against armed resistance. With David Solnit’s ...
And, you know, this odd thing is happening in this rectory after this elderly priest died, and the whole situation, the long and short of it, is that he had a whole drawer full of mass intentions, that weren’t celebrated, and that had been sitting there, and he could not rest, ...