As Advent approaches, families bring out their boxes of Christmas decorations and set out the Advent wreath. But consider a ...
St. Lucy, whose feast day is Dec. 13, is said to have brought food to Christians hiding in the Roman catacombs.
The U.S. bishops’ annual Religious Freedom Week has a liturgical setting. Beginning on June 22, the feast of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, the week includes the Nativity of St. John the Baptist ...
The Vatican decreed that priests can celebrate as many as four Masses on several important feast days, including Christmas, to accommodate the participation of the faithful. In a decree published in ...
On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven. But while the feast day is a relatively new ...
As an increasingly secularized and materialistic society encourages people to eschew suffering, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the redemptive and salvific ...
“Our Lady Guadalupe came with a message of hope. She came to present Jesus Christ to this continent,” said Juan Moreno with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas.
Friday is Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe and parishes across Denver are hosting mass for the cultural celebration.
ENDICOTT (WBNG) -- After a two-year hiatus St. Anthony of Padua will once again hold its Feast Days. This event is a celebration to honor the Patron St. Anthony. Father Ken Kirkman said Anthony was a ...
A native of Vermont and now a resident of St. Augustine, Florida, Colleen Rooney, author of Celebrating Advent and Christmas with Children, is a descendant of Irish immigrants and New England Yankees.