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Everybody’s Favorite Easter Ritual
Let the power of the Holy Spirit descend upon the less-than-fullness of this font...”(h/t AA and JM)
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The Good, the Better and the Sunday Best (Part 1)
Thoughts on How to Use St Thomas’s 4th Way to Evangelize Without Ever Asking Anyone to Try to Understand ItWhat’s the use of proofs of God’s existence? Will they persuade anyone to believe anyway?...
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Palm Sunday Rites According to the Missal of Braga
Before we tackle the mountain of photopost submissions for the Triduum and Easter, we have one last Palm Sunday set to share with you. The church of the Holy Name in Providence, Rhode Island,...
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Holy Thursday 2018 Photopost (Part 1)
As we finally get into our Holy Week photoposts, (there will be at least one more of Holy Thursday), we wish all our readers a joyful Easter week, and thank everyone for their contributions. Evangelize...
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Catholic Arts Competition at St Vincent Gallery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The Saint Vincent Gallery is pleased to announce the Seventh Nationwide Juried Catholic Arts Competition and Exhibition to be held during Summer and Fall 2018 at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe,...
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Holy Thursday 2018 Photopost (Part 2)
Our photopost requests are almost always met with such a generous response that it would be impossible to decide on merit which among many beautiful images ought to go first; for this reason, I...
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Video of Medieval Vespers of Easter in Paris
Second Vespers of Easter in the Use of Paris are celebrated according to a very particular form: after the first part, which is celebrated in the choir, the clergy and faithful process to the baptismal...
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A Hand-decorated Paschal Candle from Ireland
The decoration of the Paschal candle for 2018 at Silverstream Monastery was the work of the community’s subprior, Dom Benedict Maria Andersen, whose typographical work we have featured before.Dom...
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Prelatitial Mass on Low Sunday in Carona, Switzerland
His Excellency Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, will celebrated a Prelatitial Mass on Low Sunday, April 8th, at the church of St Martha in Carona,...
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Good Friday 2018 Photopost (Part 1)
Once again, our photopost series continues to demonstrate the richness of our Catholic liturgical hereitage; here we have the ceremonies of Good Friday in both pre- and post-Pian form of the EF, as...
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Byzantine Music for Holy Saturday
On the Julian Calendar, today is Holy Saturday, one of many days on which the Slavic choral tradition shines especially brightly. In the Byzantine Rite, the evening ceremony of Holy Saturday consists...
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Good Friday 2018 Photopost (Part 2)
We continue with photos of your Good Friday ceremonies from around the world, and in a variety of rites. Part three will appear soon, followed by Tenebrae, the vigil, and Easter Sunday - still plenty...
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Low Sunday 2018
Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his...
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Solemn Mass for Vocations - Long Island, NY
Solemn Votive Mass of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, offered for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.Church of Our Holy Redeemer 37 South Ocean AvenueFreeport, New...
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How the Liturgy May Open or Close the Door to Christ
The data keep pouring in about how young people are abandoning Christianity in droves. This cuts across all denominational lines. Recent studies like the Shell-Jugendstudie show that church isn’t one...
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Connecting Ad Orientem, Sacred Art, an Ordered Environmentalism, Social...
The Good, the Better and the Sunday Best, Part 2: Thoughts on Harnessing St Thomas’ 4th Way for Evangelization.This is the second part of an article,(the full article is here), in which I suggest that...
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Announcement: Pro Missa Tridentina Annual Meeting, Bamberg, April 21, with...
St Jakob ChurchPro Missa Tridentina, a group of Catholics in Germany dedicated to preserving and fostering the liturgical heritage of the Church, is pleased to announce its annual general meeting on...
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Good Friday 2018 Photopost (Part 3)
Like so many of our Holy Week photoposts this year, this one also has a great variety of different rituals: the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms, the Byzantine and Maronite Rites, and three different...
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Church Architecture Study Day with Dr Denis McNamara, Saturday, April 14,...
A reader asked me to publicize a one-day event coming up this Saturday, which looks like a great opportunity for Catholics, especially clergy, who wish to learn more about beautiful church design and...
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Good News for the EF in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
His Excellency Charles Chaput, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, has assigned a church in his archdiocese to the Fraternity of St Peter. The church of St Mary in the suburb of Conshohocken was built in...
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