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Worship & Sacraments

Question Corner: Should general absolution be a more regular practice?

August 28, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

If a parish is able to have at least a weekly Sunday Mass, then there would likewise seem to be enough of a priestly presence in that area to allow penitents to have their individual confessions heard within a reasonable time frame.

Biritual priests seen as witnesses to the Catholic Church’s ‘great unity’ in liturgical diversity

August 25, 2024
By Kiki Hayden
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The Catholic Church is made up of two dozen “Catholic churches,” each belonging to seven ritual families — Alexandrian, Armenian, Byzantine, Chaldean, Latin, Maronite and Syriac — and each church in that ritual family having its own distinctive traditions and liturgical variations.

Pandemic is officially over, but will Communion chalices make comeback at Mass?

August 23, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide the Eucharist, the sacrament that is the “source and summit of the Christian life” while keeping people safe from contagion.

Question Corner: Is spiritual communion the same as sacramental Communion?

August 21, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

While a spiritual communion might be a praiseworthy aid to one’s spiritual life, it is not the same thing as a physical, sacramental Communion.

Those who sing pray twice

August 8, 2024
By Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

One of the multiple blessings of the last six decades since the close of the providential Second Vatican Council has been an emphasis on congregational singing and the development of excellent parish choirs.

Is every Sunday a wasted opportunity?

August 1, 2024
By Greg Erlandson
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Worship & Sacraments

The goal should be to help average adult Catholics know what it is they profess to believe, what it is they are participating in each Sunday, and what it means to be a baptized Christian in today’s world.

10 reasons we ‘have to’ go to Mass

July 25, 2024
By Lorene Hanley Duquin
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

We need ritual in our lives. Mass is a ritual, which means that through the repetition of prayers, movements, and the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, we are formed, disciplined and consoled.

Question Corner: Is a parish required to provide a screen and kneeler in the confessional?

July 17, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

While the church expects confessions to be heard in a designated confessional under ordinary circumstances, there are times when it would be permissible to celebrate the sacrament someplace else.

Like British peers, prominent U.S. figures ask pope not to further restrict traditional Mass

July 16, 2024
By Jonathan Luxmoore
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Following the example of a group of British cultural icons, a group of American “Catholics and non-Catholics” and prominent cultural and intellectual personalities asked Pope Francis in an open letter July 15 not to further restrict the traditional Latin Mass.

Pope: Anointing of the sick offers strength to those seriously ill, elderly

July 2, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The sacrament of the anointing of the sick is not just for those who are nearing the end of their life, Pope Francis said.

How to celebrate Sunday as a Catholic

June 24, 2024
By Lorene Hanley Duquin
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

What implications does our round-the-clock world have on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being?

A eucharistic word: grace

June 19, 2024
By Michael R. Heinlein
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

The mysterious workings of grace in our lives — or even what grace is — were fodder for interesting conversations between this father and his then-almost-7-year-old.

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