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May 18th, 2008
When I was growing up, my mother didn't belong to any church. When I was in high school, after a long period of seeking and questioning, she decided to become a Catholic. Her older sister, ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The stole is a scarf that was used as a symbol of authority for Roman officials. It would be something like the badge that a police or fire official wears today. The Catholic Church, when ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The practice of cardinals electing a new pope has its origins in the tradition of the early church for a local church to elect its own bishop. St. Ambrose, for example, was chosen as bishop ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The idea of the infallibility of the pope was defined at the first Vatican Council in 1869. The Council was trying to describe the teaching authority of the pope at a time when the pope's ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The word pope is an English adaptation of the Latin word "papa" (a child's affectionate word for father). From the third to the fifth centuries words like papa or abba were used of bishops to ... |
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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 ... |
