it was customary on the greater feast days to recite two sets of Matins, the one of the feria or week-day, the other of the festival. Hence such days were known as "doubles". [4] The Catholic ...

walks in procession during the Mass celebrating the first feast day of Our Lady of Walsingham on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: Marie Drozdziak The rector of the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady of ...

The Feast of the ... within the Byzantine Catholic Church. It was introduced into the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century by Pope Gregory XI, then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius ...

The feast day of Our Lady of Walsingham was celebrated Sept. 24, 2024, in England and Wales for the first time. (photo: The Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady) Andy Drozdziak/CNA ...

On Friday, feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, an Italian who founded the religious order of the Franciscans and was known for his patronage of animals, Bishop John Dolan visited St. Vincent de ...

In confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are increased within a soul: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, ...

Moveable feasts, fasts, and other annual observances of the Catholic Church: a posthumous work of the late Rev. Mr. Alban Butler (Online) ...

The Office for Black Catholics will hold a Mass of celebration for St. Martin de Porres on his feast day, Nov. 3, at the ...

Nineteen Day Feasts are regular community gatherings, occurring on the first day of each month of the Baháʼí calendar (and are often nineteen days apart from each other). Each gathering consists of a ...

Pope Francis will create his 21 new cardinals Dec. 7, not Dec. 8 as he originally announced, according to the official in ...

Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos is not "Mexican Halloween." To celebrate, people make an ofrenda (altar) and eat candy ...

I want all the attention on the Blessed Mother.” That is what John Cordi, Brooklyn native and lifelong parishioner at the ...