Tag: Catholic Church

Last week, we discussed the importance of the opening procession, but what do we hear as the priest approaches the altar?  Moving swiftly on through the third clause of the first sentence

The Church puts the four last things before me four times a day.

When is your house’s feast day? My house’s is November 9, the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, which is the pope’s cathedral in Rome. 

When a woman and a man fall in love, they know exactly what they expect — and both the Catholic Church and pop music agree that they can get it. It can

Never dialogue with the devil, says Pope Francis. Turn to Scripture — and to St. Michael the Archangel — instead.

So — you’re on your parish’s building committee and you know you want a beautiful church, but you’re not sure exactly how that happens or precisely what that looks like. What do you do?

God seeks to court us, and St. Benedict can give us an example.

The Catechism spells out the everyday ways the Spirit comes to us daily.

Today is Day 1 in the Novena to Our Lady of Fatima. Join us in prayer!

Why do we pretend things that happened a long, long time ago are happening right now? I brought my question to the Theology floor at Benedictine College.