I love Cardinal Arinze. He’s honest and a straight shooter. Listen (below) to what he has to say on kneeling and altar rails. I’ve been to some parishes when I’ve been traveling where they stood during consecration. In my experience, it was always just the tip of the iceberg in terms of liturgical abuse. Very [...]
This (video below) is a funny spoof on what a lot of Sunday morning “worship” services have become these days. If you’ve ever attended one of these “mega-churches” or a church with “fellowship” in the name, this will make you laugh.
I think your average Catholic is more likely to be able to make a perfectly folded cross out of their palm branch than they are to be able to explain why they have a palm branch in the first place. The trick is getting the ends neatly criss-crossed and wrapped around the center and then [...]
The usual liturgical color for Advent is purple (similar to Lent) to remind us that this is a penitential season. It is particularly an appropriate time for special prayers and fasting to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ into the world at Christmas. And it’s not solely a remembrance or anniversary of when Christ [...]
