When the Second Vatican Council called for a renewal of religious life, the Church foresaw certain deficiencies within religious communities that needed to be corrected--or at least updated--and consequently laid down a general principle of renewal, that is; to return to the “spirit of the fou...
March 11, Lent began according to the liturgical calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, which will lead to the Easter celebration on Sunday April 28, a week after the Catholic and other Churches, which follow the Gregorian calendar. On Sunday 10 March, at the end of the week of "fats" ...
I also give the requirements for the Universal Church according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which is what we are bound to. Note that if any of the Fasting and/or Abstinence Days falls on a Sunday or a first class Feast outside of Lent, the requirements (except for the Eucharistic...
Th e attention has been paid to the decisions made by Fathers of the Council of Trullo, as well as to Patriarch Photius and Patriarch Cerularius, who attempted to remain faithful to the tradition of the apostles and church fathers. According to the Apostolic Constitution, Sabbath was not the...