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May 18th, 2008
Thank you for your question about the Creed.
Basically the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed came into being around the same time though the earliest forms of the Apostles Creed are in evidence around ...
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May 18th, 2008
So many Catholics go to Sunday Mass and are not Christ-like during the week. So many "good people" do not attend a formal church service every Sunday. Where in the Bible does it require weekly attending of the Mass? Can a very good Christian or Catholic be a holy person in action and deed including prayer and not be attending the ritual of Mass every Sunday?
One of the ten commandments is "remember to keep holy the sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, your God. ...
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May 18th, 2008
Actually, a complete celebration of the Mass should engage the whole person--including the mind, the emotions, and the body. Even the simplest Masses, for example, involve a procession to and from the communion station, and ...
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May 18th, 2008
For example, 'May the body and blood of Christ bring us all to everlasting life." Wouldn't it be more true to say "The body and blood of Christ BROUGHT us all to everlasting life?
It's true that the Mass is a remembering of the death and resurrection of Christ. But it's a particular kind of remembering that involves an encounter with past, present and future. In the acclamation of ...
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May 18th, 2008
I recently met someone who attends Latin Masses and believes that they are still allowed. I also heard that Latin Masses were no longer held and that Masses must be said in the language of the people. Who is correct?
To answer your question I have to provide a little history.
Up until 1965, Mass was celebrated everywhere in the Catholic church in Latin according to the "rite" (order or ritual or worship) determined at the ...
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May 18th, 2008
Devotion to Mary goes back a long way in the Catholic church. But Catholics do not believe that Mary is divine and we don't pray to Mary. God, made flesh in Jesus and present in ...
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May 18th, 2008
The Immaculate Conception is a teaching of the church that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception. This is not a teaching found in the New ...
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May 18th, 2008
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates an appearance of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. For evidence we have both a story and a painting.
The story tells ...
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May 18th, 2008
Catholics differ from some Christian Churches which accept the Scripture as the only source of God's revelation. Catholics have a strong belief in the truth of Scripture, but we also believe in tradition as a ...
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May 18th, 2008
My husband and I got married in a civil ceremony. We always knew we were going to do it in a Catholic ceremony though. Nobody knows but us. We already have a marriage license obviously, what sort of certificate does the priest need to sign? We dont want him to know either....is there any way to keep it a secret and pretend we were never married through the courts?
Thank you for sending your question to "Ask Fr. Joe."
First of all, let me say that there will be no problem with your getting your married "validated" in the Catholic Church. I'm assuming ...
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