The word Mass is from the Latin word Missa, meaning “sending forth”. And if we consider Mass in these terms it takes on a dimension that so many of us are perhaps ignorant of, or like to forget sometimes. Mass is all about communion. We are a communion of persons who unite their prayers […]
It’s Sunday morning and you’re on your way to Mass. You go about your usual morning ritual and arrive at the Church a few seconds before the opening hymn begins and taking your place you fulfil your weekly obligation, watching the clock until this chore is complete. Does this sound like you? Sadly, we’ve
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One of the most tiring gags of the secular world is the use of the term ‘Immaculate Conception’ to explain an unexpected pregnancy. Even within the Catholic laity there is a general misconception about this term and what it means. Those who do not understand its meaning attribute the term to the conception of
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‘And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns
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‘We must therefore consider the Eucharist as: — thanksgiving and praise to the Father ; — the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body; — the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit .’ (CCC 1358) The above quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the
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‘On the day we call the day of the sun, all who dwell in the city or country gather in the same place. ‘The memoirs of the apostles and the writings of the prophets are read, as much as time permits. ‘When the reader has finished, he who presides over those gathered admonishes and
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As a mother of a very inquisitive two-year-old girl, I was very reluctant to put up Christmas decorations on the first Sunday of Advent. But then I stumbled across this idea; a felt Christmas tree where she was in charge of the decorating and exploring the shapes of this festive and holy season. There
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‘O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, we are to appear before you after this short life to render an account of our works. Give us the grace to prepare for our last hour by a devout and holy life, and protect us against a sudden and unprovided death.
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At the Last Supper, Jesus told his apostles: ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’( John 14:6). This small statement holds for us the message of salvation: truth, life and union with God. This message is, in fact, the mission that Jesus
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“The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they come from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes.” (CCC 1603) From the very
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