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Divine Worship

Catholics need better understanding of the Mass, pope says

June 29, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The “sense of mystery” and awe Catholics should experience at Mass is not one prompted by Latin or by “creative” elements added to the celebration, but by an awareness of sacrifice of Christ and his real presence in the Eucharist, Pope Francis said.

Disruptions in church/Disposition of altar relics

October 19, 2021
By Father Kenneth Doyle
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Feature, Question Corner

Father Doyle clarifies his answer to a question of disruptions at Mass and also fields a questions on altar relics.

Prayer to St. Michael/Age of confirmation

October 11, 2021
By Father Kenneth Doyle
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Feature, Question Corner

Father Doyle fields questions on the use of the Prayer of St. Michael and the age for confirmation.

Dioceses respond to pope’s document restoring limits on pre-Vatican II Mass

July 19, 2021
By Maria Wiering
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, World News

Bishops throughout the United States have begun responding to Pope Francis’ document that restores limits on the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass.

Text: ‘Traditionis Custodes’ on use of the pre-Vatican II liturgy

July 16, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations

Here is the Vatican’s official English translation of “‘Traditionis Custodes’ on the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970,” an apostolic letter issued by Pope Francis “motu proprio” July 16.

Appealing to need for unity, pope restores limits on pre-Vatican II Mass

July 16, 2021
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Saying he was acting for the good of the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has restored limits on the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal in use before the Second Vatican Council, overturning or severely restricting permissions St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had given to celebrate the so-called Tridentine-rite Mass.

Pope urges altar servers to be signs of faith to their parishes

May 3, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Being an altar server should be a “profession of faith” to the entire parish community, Pope Francis told young men and women participating in Portugal’s annual altar server pilgrimage to Fatima.

What will we sing in heaven?

March 30, 2021
By Dominican Father Vincent Ferrer Bagan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Easter, Feature, Guest Commentary

If we allow the graces of the cross to take away all in our lives that is not of God, we will eventually be ready to celebrate the perpetual Easter of heaven, in which we will sing “Holy, holy, holy,” and “Glory to God in the highest,” and “Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia,” without end, rejoicing with all the angels and saints in God’s presence forever.

Vatican says general absolution still permissible during pandemic

March 11, 2021
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or increasing levels of coronavirus infections, a Vatican official said.

Burial in non-Catholic cemetery/ Anxious as death draws near

March 4, 2021
By Father Kenneth Doyle
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Question Corner

Father Doyle fields questions about burial in non-Catholic cemetery and knowing God’s love as death draws near.

Change coming to prayer at Mass

February 11, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, Lent, Local News, News

Observant Mass-goers will detect a change in one of the prayers used at Mass beginning Ash Wednesday when priests will begin omitting the word “one” in the concluding doxology of the collect prayers that currently are translated as “…in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.”

Christianity without liturgy is absent of Christ, pope says

February 3, 2021
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The liturgy is not a spectacle to be observed but a prayerful event where Christians encounter Christ’s presence in their lives, Pope Francis said.

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