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A number of prayers to Jesus Christ exist within the Roman Catholic tradition. These prayers have diverse origins and forms. Some were attributed to visions of saints, others were handed down by tradition. Some such prayers are provided in the Raccolta Roman Catholic prayer book, first published in association with the Roman Catholic ...
A review of the Commandments is one of the most common types of examination of conscience used by Catholics before receiving the sacrament of Penance. [5] The Commandments appear in the earliest Church writings; [6] the Catechism states that they have "occupied a predominant place" in teaching the faith since the time of Augustine of Hippo (AD ...
In many Catholic communities the practice of the Holy Hour of meditation during the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during the First Fridays is encouraged. [22] The Feast of the Sacred Heart is now a holy day in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred ...
In the Catholic Church, the Precepts of the Church, sometimes called the Commandments of the Church, are certain laws considered binding on the faithful. As usually understood, they are moral and ecclesiastical, broad in character and limited in number. In modern times there are five.
This prayer is said at the conclusion of the Liturgy of the Word or Mass of the Catechumens (the older term). The General Instruction of the Roman Missal states: . In the General Intercessions or the Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in a certain way to the word of God which they have welcomed in faith and, exercising the office of their baptismal priesthood, offer prayers to God for ...
The Catholic's pocket prayer-book (1899) Prayers and meditations on the life of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (1908) Meditations For Every Day In The Year by Roger Baxter (1823) The paradise of the Christian soul by Jacob Merlo Horstius (1877) With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections by Francis Xavier Lasance (1911) Wynne, John Joseph (1911 ...
The books of prayers (Sacramentaries, Antiphonaries, etc.) contained a few words of direction for the most important and salient things to be done – elementary rubrics. For instance the Gregorian Sacramentary tells priests (as distinct from bishops) not to say the Gloria except on Easter Day; the celebrant chants the preface excelsa voce (in ...
It is also known as the Epitome, and usually named Epitome of the eighth Book of the Apostolic Constitutions (or sometime titled The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles concerning ordination through Hippolytus or simply The Constitutions through Hippolytus) containing a re-wording of chapters 1–2, 4–5, 16–28, 30–34, 45-46 of the eighth ...