what does it mean to assist at mass on all sundays and holy days of obligation
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- On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body.
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Passionists For the sanctification of is members and the maintenance of the spirit of the congregation in their community life, besides practising the austerities and mortifications prescribed by Rule and familiar only to themselves, the Passionists spend five hours every day in choir chanting the Divine Office or in meditation.
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The Feast of the Annunciation The Greek Church, when the 25th of March occurs on one of the three last days in Holy Week, transfers the Annunciation to Easter Monday; on all other days, even on Easter Sunday, its office is kept together with the office of the day.
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- embrace together the spirit and tradition bequeathed to us by St Dominic, to search together and to build together our communities of brothers and sisters in the service of the Church. Fr Aniceto speaks of the sisters as equals, and as equals invites them to search with the brothers for the best way of carrying out our preaching mission together.
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Catholic Glossary The ministry or work of an apostle. In Catholic usage, a term covering all kinds and areas of work and endeavor for the service of God and the Church and the good of people. The offices of the Holy Father’s representative to a country or to the Church in that country.
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Catholic Activity: Season of Easter It is the beginning of a new season of grace and a time of joy and thanksgiving, for Easter is not one day or one solemnity—it is a fifty day celebration, and the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday together comprise what the General Instruction terms the great Sunday.
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Spiritually hungry? Soul food for seafarers To non-Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church often seems mysterious and ritualistic. The rituals associated with Catholic worship -- such as crossing oneself, genuflecting or kneeling -- have meaning and purpose for those who perform them as well as those who observe them.Some Catholic rituals serve to bring worshippers together, as with Holy Communion during the Mass.he entire Mass is a series of rituals and rites practiced by all Catholics the world over, and each section of the Mass -- the Introductory Rites, the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the Concluding Rites -- has its own structure and set of rituals.
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- Ashes are placed on the forehead in the sign of a cross on Ash Wednesday-it is the first day of Lent. The one who delivers the ashes tells the receiver: Turn away from sin … and be faithful to the gospel. Answered. In English to Spanish.
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- Totus Tuus seeks to foster openness to vocations in both the young people we serve and the team members. This is accomplished by placing special emphasis on the importance and necessity of prayer, Eucharistic devotion, and Marian devotion, in addition to catechetical instruction and formation in the Catholic faith.
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Rogation days Rogation days are days of prayer and fasting in Western Christianity. They are observed with processions and the Litany of the Saints.The so-called major rogation is held on 25 April; the minor rogations are held on Monday to Wednesday on the dates preceding Ascension Thursday.The word rogation comes from the Latin verb rogare, meaning to ask, which reflects the beseeching of God for the appeasement of his anger and for protection from calamities.hey are observed with processions and the Litany of the Saints. The so-called major rogation is held on 25 April; the minor rogations are held on Monday to Wednesday on the dates preceding Ascension Thursday.
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- All three names refer to the same reality, the official prayer of the Church offered at various times of the day in order to sanctify it. Clergy and religious have a canonical obligation to pray the Liturgy of the Hours as official representatives of the Church.
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- 5:30 pmHoly Mass followed by anointing of holy oil & veneration of the St. Pio’s relics. Wednesday. 4:15 pmRosary and Novenas to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Pio. 5:30 pmHoly Mass followed by anointing of holy oil & veneration of the St. Pio’s relics. Saturday (Anticipated Sunday Mass) 4:30 pmRosary and St. Pio Novena
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- Consequently, the Church reserves solemnities for the commemoration of its most important events such as the Assumption of Mary, Easter, and Christmas. Although a solemnity is an important day for Catholics, they are not required to attend mass each time one falls on the calendar. However, holy days of obligation, chosen by a country's Catholic bishops, are always at the rank of solemnity.
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Laborare est Orare It laid stress on the equal value of prayer, study and work, and in this way Benedict laid the foundations for self-sufficiency in a period when a community would either survive on its own, or not survive at all. At the core of the Rule was the edict, laborare est orare (to work is to pray).
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Lent A: Lent is the forty day period before Easter, excluding Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday). [This traditional ennumeration does not precisely coincide with the calendar according to the liturgical reform.
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Rogation Sunday Today is the sixth Sunday of Easter. Today is also Rogation Sunday and the fact that it no longer gets a mention is, perhaps, an indication of how far weve become distanced from the soil and the seas that ultimately sustain us.We get the work rogation from the Latin Rogare  meaning to ask.oday is also Rogation Sunday and the fact that it no longer gets a mention is, perhaps, an indication of how far weve become distanced from the soil and the seas that ultimately sustain us. We get the work rogation from the Latin Rogare  meaning to ask.
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Eucharistic Minister An Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion is a Catholic lay person who assists in the distribution of Holy Communion, either during the Mass, or afterwards, such as to housebound persons. Section [156] prohibits the use of other titles for these lay persons.ucharist, in the Catholic Church, refers to both the celebration of the Mass, that is, the Eucharist liturgy, and to the bread and wine which are transubstantiated (changed in substance) into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
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- The Lay Counseling Ministry offers up to ten weeks of counseling to the All Saints community, at no cost, with counselors who are trained and supervised by licensed professionals. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 626.583.2706.
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Liturgical colours The group of feasts and days commemorating monastic saints, ascetics, and fools for Christ. Vestment color: green. The Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), Holy Trinity Day (Pentecost), and Holy Spirit Day (Monday after Pentecost) are, as a rule, celebrated in green vestments of all shades.
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- One of the six precepts of the Church is “to keep the Sundays and Holy Days of obligation holy, by hearing Mass and resting from servile work” (New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia). We had to memorize these precepts when I was a child and I remember it as “to assist at Mass on all Sundays and holy days of obligation.”.
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What will you do for Lent? Changes instituted in Vatican II in the 1960s — the rules most Catholics live by today — called for fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and giving up meat on all Fridays during Lent, she said. Today the fast is about giving up something you enjoy enough that it would be felt as a sacrifice for the duration of Lent. Forgoing meat on Fridays is a given. For children, the sacrifice might be candy and cartoons. For adults it’s often rich foods, desserts or alcohol. Not all fasts involve consumables.
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Wages of Catholic Ministerial Employees are on Par With Protestant Denominations Wages of Catholic Ministerial Employees are on Par With Protestant Denominations. Prior to entering the Seminary, I was a choir director, cantor and organist in Catholic Parishes. In those days, (early 1980s), it was widely held that working for a Catholic Parish meant your were going to be paid poorly. The “real money” was made working for Protestant congregations.
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- 40 Days of Lent. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday, lasts 40 days not counting Sundays and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. There are 46 days because Sundays are not included during Lent. Some say that Sundays aren't counted in the 40 days of Lent, because every Sunday carries with it a part of the glow of Easter Sunday.
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- 'For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sinning' [Heb 4:15]. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.. (CCC 540).
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Eucharistic Minister Eucharistic Minister, or more properly Lay Eucharistic Minister LEM, is used to denote a lay person who assists the priest in administering the sacraments of holy communion, the consecrated bread and wine.They may also take the sacraments to those who are ill, or otherwise unable to attend Mass.ucharist, in the Catholic Church, refers to both the celebration of the Mass, that is, the Eucharist liturgy, and to the bread and wine which are transubstantiated (changed in substance) into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
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Lent Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a mini-Easter and the reverent spirit of Lent is tempered with joyful anticipation of the Resurrection.