Ash Wednesday will fall on March 5 this year. What to know about the holiday that starts Lent
Ash Wednesday, a holiday in which those practicing receive ash on their foreheads in the shape of a cross, will take place ...
The Manila Times on MSN6dOpinion
The alternative Filipino version of 'Hail Mary'
SINCE the Second Vatican Council — which took place from 1962 to 1965 with the aim of updating the Catholic Church and making ...
The Tablet1d
Lent jewels
Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...
Catholic News Agency3d
The new Roman Missal: A time of liturgical renewal
Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United ... of the “Missale Romanum,” the Roman Missal. This is a time for great rejoicing and ...
TOM UTLEY: They say you are what you drive... lucky no one told Mrs U when I wooed her in my aunt's ancient Morris Minor!
A news item this week brought flooding back the day in 1979 when I took the gorgeous new barmaid at my local pub on our first ...
Krone5d
Signal for women: Lector appointed by the Pope
A tentative signal for the empowerment of women in the Catholic Church: Johanna Breuer is one of two women from Salzburg who ...
America Magazine22d
The move away from the Latin Mass was about more than aesthetics
I recently met with a student, a young African-American Catholic who is more familiar ... while some followed it in missals that contained both Latin and English texts. Vatican II changed all ...
National Catholic Register28d
A Sacred Farewell: Honoring William Mahrt and His Legacy in Sacred Music
On the contrary, they were meant to continue as music intrinsic to the Mass and most suited to Catholic worship ... according to the contemporary Roman Missal, celebrated in Latin in accordance ...