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Worship & Sacraments

New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent

January 31, 2023
By Gina Christian
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.

Mission begins by meeting Jesus in the Scriptures and Eucharist, pope says

January 27, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Having come to know Jesus through the Scriptures and in the Eucharist, Catholics are called to share with others the hope and joy that come from faith and that endure even when life gets difficult, Pope Francis said.

God’s word, mercy must be shared with everyone, pope says

January 23, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

“Jesus ‘reaches out’ to tell us that God’s mercy is for everyone,” Pope Francis said in his homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 22, the church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God.

Long homilies are ‘a disaster,’ keep it under 10 minutes, pope says

January 23, 2023
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Lengthy, abstract homilies are “a disaster,” so preaching should be limited to 10 minutes, Pope Francis said.

To improve liturgy, involve the people, pope says

January 20, 2023
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Religious celebrations must foster the “fruitful participation of the people of God” and not just of the clergy, Pope Francis said.

Pope to confer ministries of lector, catechist at Mass Jan. 22

January 17, 2023
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Pope Francis will celebrate the fourth annual Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 22 and, like he did last year, will confer the ministries of lector and catechist on several lay people, according to the Dicastery for Evangelization.

What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer

January 13, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Each year, some 3 million pilgrims — many with terminal medical conditions — visit the shrine in southwestern France, site of 18 Marian apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous, who was a young teenager in poverty and could neither read nor write at the time.

Pope baptizes babies, urges parents to teach them to pray

January 9, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

– Telling parents and godparents to teach their little ones to pray from the time they are small, Pope Francis baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel as their older brothers and sisters looked on — or got away and ran around.

For converts to Catholicism, RCIA is now ‘OCIA’: What’s behind name change?

December 3, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Faith Formation, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops changed the name of one of the best-known acronyms in the church, reorienting the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) into the new Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA).

Eucharistic revival has ‘incredible momentum,’ bishop says

November 17, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The U.S. bishops’ three-year eucharistic revival, which will culminate in a National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in 2024, is in full swing, according to Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn.

Bishops approve new Mass texts for St. Paul VI, Our Lady of Loreto

November 16, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The U.S. bishops took on the task during their fall general meeting in Baltimore of considering proposed Mass texts for the feasts of Our Lady of Loreto and the recently canonized St. Paul VI.

Bishops approve English, Spanish documents on lay ministry to the sick

November 16, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The U.S. bishops agreed to consider revised texts, in both English and Spanish, for the anointing of the sick.

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