The official proclamation on tetraphony, while certainly a reaction to ecclesiastical innovation among the Greeks in Europe, was a more nuanced statement than it may seem; it also addressed other concerns of the Œcumenical Patriarchate by way of the issue of innovation in Church singing. The...
Rivers to Catholics of any color who have never heard of Rivers or the profound impact he made on the way Catholic worship looks and sounds today. “Created and co-hosted by Emily Strand (of the podcasts Beyond the Words and Potterversity), Meet Father Rivers seeks out individuals who ...
My father’s final days, death and burial were much like the traditional Catholic requiem Mass itself; a sacrifice, but an occasion of grace and beauty. And just maybe, an occasion of evangelization as well. For the past several years, my estranged father had been living on a ranch in we...
Fasting and Abstaining Required on Good Friday for adult Catholics. Christmas Color White is the liturgical color for Christmas. Epiphany Celebrated on January 6, feast moved in US. Confirmation Celebrated 50 days after Easter. Last Sunday of Liturgical Year Marks the end of the liturgical calendar...
A. Gutierrez, M.A – Catholic Social Teaching Mike Aquilina – Fathers of the Church and so much more… Seeking Truth with Sharon Doran – Catholic Bible Study Mark Hart – The Bible Geek “Answers from the Word” and more Dr. Carson Holloway – The Challenges of Liberal Modernity; ...
medieval practices such as Christmas and Good Friday vigils persisted within the Unitarian church, but efforts to purge the church of Catholic remnants were successful by the end of the seventeenth century.The standardization of Unitarian liturgy gained momentum in the second half of the eighteenth ce...
For the first time ever, many non-Catholic Christians were also required to meditate upon Christ’s suffering and death on that Good Friday two thousand years ago. Many Protestant communities had long since rejected the crucifix and instead opted for the empty cross. To these viewers of thePass...
“Something strange is happening — there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. . . . because the King is asleep” (The Liturgy of the Hours: According to the Roman Rite: II: Lenten Season, Easter Season, ICEL, New York, Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1976...
It often appears on the end of the rosary, a string of prayer beads. The cross represents Jesus as he was executed on the original Good Friday. The crucifix is used primarily by Christians in the Roman Catholic Church, the several branches of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and other church ...
My long-time friend, a Catholic priest, Dick Vosko, invariably sends me his own carefully crafted Rosh Hashanah wishes, and this year, he included Ecclesiastes 1:13, “I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burd...