Attending a mass is the most common All Saints Day tradition within the Catholic Church. The Beatitudes are read during mass, and prayers are said for the Saints. Many visit the grave sites of loved ones and relatives to pay tribute and remember those who have passed into heaven. In ...
Valentine’s Day began as Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine. The feast was first established by Pope Gelasius I to honor one or two saints named Valentinus for being martyred on February 14.
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A church is either a building used for religious purposes, or it is a group of people who have gathered for religious purposes, or it is a larger configuration of people who have been organized for religious purposes (i.e. the Roman Catholic Church). Say the word “church” and anyone ...
13 December was the darkest day – with the least length of sunlight – of the old Julian calendar. Hence, it was once the Winter Solstice. Today in the Gregorian calendar is the feast of St. Lucy, whose name from the Latin lux, for “light”, reminds us who dwell in the still dark...
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out of Ireland. Also this same day was already a Celtic Holiday - Ostara - which celebrates the Spring Equinox and the rebirth of nature. The Catholic Church made this holiday as a way to encourage the forgetting of indigenous European belief as well as to praise Christian Saints and the fo...
understand the strength of our position, and the cogency of the argument; but it is much more charitable than to leave them to the repeated sin of blaspheming God’s Spouse, and trying to undermine the faith of our poor Catholics.” [The Catholic doctrine on the use of the Bible, 1853...
Samhain(“summer’s end”) is celebrated as today’s Halloween. Many historians believe it served as the start of the new year in the Celtic calendar—their “New Year’s Day.” It was the day when the cattle were brought in from pasture; those needed for the winter’s supply of meat...
All Saints’ Day Following theRoman Empire’s rule over Celt-occupied landsin the 1st century A.D., the Romans incorporated many of the Celtic traditions, including Samhain, with their own. Eight hundred years later, the Roman Catholic Church further modified Samhain, designatingNovember 1 as Al...