What’s the Ascension? What’s the Assumption? What’s the difference? The meaning of these two great feasts is sometimes a bit blurry.
Ascension, Assumption: What’s the difference?
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Worship & Sacraments
Question Corner: What’s going on with the Latin Mass?
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As Catholic Christians we are called to approach all things in a spirit of patience and charity — including the issue of other Catholics’ liturgical preferences.
Catholic charismatic renewal creates ‘church on fire’ with God’s love, says bishop
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The Catholic Church’s charismatic renewal is a movement of the Holy Spirit to “bring about a church that is on fire” with God’s love, the new head of the Holy See’s official charismatic body told OSV News.
Why Catholics make the Sign of the Cross
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The Sign of the Cross is not merely a pious gesture. It is a powerful prayer.
Explainer: What are indulgences?
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Indulgences, however, are a way that the church “as minister of the Redemption” intervenes on behalf of a penitent by using its God-given authority to dispense all the temporal punishments of sin (a plenary indulgence), or a portion of them (a partial indulgence), by the application of the satisfaction won by Christ and the saints.
10 ways to prepare for first Communion day
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A child’s first Communion is an important and exciting milestone in the life of a Catholic family. As the first and most important teachers of their children, parents present their children for baptism and guide them toward Christ as they are initiated into the church community.
Shrine’s Divine Mercy Sunday weekend to focus on Eucharist, ‘spiritual fatherhood’
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Some 15,000 pilgrims are expected at the annual Divine Mercy Sunday Weekend, which takes place April 6-7 at the National Shrine for the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Gallup: Just 3 in 10 U.S. adults regularly attend religious services
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The pews may be a bit more crowded at Mass this Easter — but on balance, regular church attendance in the U.S. continues to decline across the board, particularly among Catholics.
Archbishop Lori invoked challenges, joys as chrism Mass celebrates renewal of priesthood and blessing of oils
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Catholic Review
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The March 25 liturgy at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland marked Monday of Holy Week with the traditional Mass in which the sacramental oils are blessed for use all around the archdiocese for the following year.
On Palm Sunday, pope prays people open hearts to God, quell all hatred
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Catholic News Service
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Dressed in red vestments, the color of the Passion, Pope Francis presided over the Mass, the solemn beginning of Holy Week, but he skipped the homily and did not have an aide read any prepared remarks.
Vatican Palm Sunday recalls early Christian martyrs, brave sea captain
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The Palm Sunday procession at the foot of an 85-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter’s Square recalls the martyrdom of many early Christians and the fast-thinking foresight of an Italian Renaissance sea captain.
Why isn’t the Annunciation celebrated on March 25 this year?
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This year, since March 25 is Holy Monday on the Roman calendar, the liturgical celebration of the Annunciation will be observed on Monday, April 8.
