Rites.— I. NAME AND DEFINITION. —Ritus in classical Latin means, primarily, the form and manner of any religious observance, so Livy, I, 7: “Sacra diis...
rather, the Goliath of a garden serpent who tempted him to return to the sweet life,la dolce vita. It was the image of the grace of a God given vision to live a virtuous life. Its simple grace would be the stone that would bring down the giant of his own ego and worldliness....
determined that at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries a Libera (forgiving of sins) prayer as well as the Liturgy of the Hours for the Deceased, that had been cherished in the Church for long centuries, are no longer the part of the service for the de...
These texts are applied and used on a specific day of the year in the Church calendar. The Proper section contains the Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Tract, Offertory, and Communion. A brief explanation of the Proper part of the Roman Catholic Mass, which forms part of the Roman Catholic ...
In the case of any Christian bishop or priest we may ask: what is his Church or sect, what rite does he use and in what language? And the answers may represent all kinds of combinations. A Catholic may use the Roman Rite in Old Slavonic, the Alexandrine Rite in Coptic, the Byzantine...
Jesus Christ is the central figure and Christians believe Jesus to be God in the flesh. It began as a small and persecuted religion. Many Christians were martyred in the early decades. Eventually, in the 4th century AD, Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire and has ...
Yesterday I had the great privilege of participating in the consecration of the new abbey church of the monastic community of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles near Gower, MO. The rites of consecration and the Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool after took over 7 hours. The prayers ...
Ultimately, the princes of the Church,cum Petro et sub Petro, fashioned a mandate for carrying out the reform of the liturgy at Vatican II: (1) Revise liturgical texts and rites so that they express more clearly the holy things they signify; (2) revise and simplify the ...
In particular, we have to bear in mind that the texts which referred to the Slavic paganism traced back to the mythical origins of Poland are mostly fictional, and they simply seek to reproduce in a Slavic pantheon of imaginary names the structure of the Roman pantheon. According to his ...
Since his 2013 election, Francis has eschewed the pomp often associated with the papacy to emphasize his role as the bishop of Rome and a servant of the “church of the poor.” The Argentine Jesuit lives in the Vatican hotel, not the Apostolic Palace, and travels in small Fords or Fiats...