of the human person from conception until natural death
The first encyclical of the pontificate of the late Holy Father was also the first to be written by two Popes. It was begun by Pope Benedict XVI and completed by Pope Francis. The encyclical completes the trilogy of theological virtues that Pope Benedict had previously written in regard to…
During the first weeks of Ordinary Time, the Gospels focus upon the call of the Apostles. Among the Synoptic Gospels, Saints Mark (Mk 1:16-20) and Matthew (Mt 4:18-22) recount Jesus walking along the Sea of Galilee and, then, abruptly calling two pairs of brothers to follow Him – Peter and Andrew,
In the liturgical calendar before the Second Vatican Council, there were basically three liturgical seasons: the season of Christmas that included Advent and up to six Sundays after Epiphany. Then there was Easter, which included Lent and three Sundays before Ash Wednesday that were called in the Roman Calendar before…
In volume four of The Church at Prayer, Fr. Pierre Jounel described Ordinary Time this way, “The thirty-four Sundays per annum or of Ordinary Time represent the ideal Christian Sunday,…
Easter is not just one day – it is a season of fifty days or a week of weeks, plus one day—the eighth day. The length of Eastertide is derived…
In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII captured the essence of liturgical theology and greatly stressed those liturgical elements which would eventually bear fruit in the Second Vatican Council,…
Nature and dignity 