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A German holy card from around 1910 depicting the crucifixion The earliest known woodcut, St Christopher, 1423, Buxheim, with hand-colouring Prayer card of the Holy Face of Jesus In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in ...
Masses for Various Needs and Occasions are Masses for the needs of the Church (e.g. the laity or ministers), for public needs (eg. During a war or for national leaders), for public occasions (e.g. a harvest), or for various needs (e.g. reconciliation). [4] These Masses can take place on the same days as votive Masses. [3]
The large number of requests for Mass cards sometimes poses a dilemma, since an individual Mass is supposed to be celebrated for each card signed according to canon law. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] In a practice generally considered illicit, Mass cards are sometimes sold with a printed signature, without being linked to a specific priest or Mass being celebrated.
A Catholic priest blesses the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorials on Boylston Street. In the Catholic Church, a blessing is a rite consisting of a ceremony and prayers performed in the name and with the authority of the Church by a duly qualified minister by which persons or things are sanctified as dedicated to divine service or by which certain marks of divine favour are invoked upon them.
The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve. This is because the Catholic Church ...
The Catholic Voice: Biweekly 1962 Orange: Orange County Catholic: Weekly Sacramento: Catholic Herald: Bimonthly San Bernardino: Inland Catholic Byte: San Diego: The Southern Cross: Monthly 1912 San Francisco: Catholic San Francisco: 62,000 26 per year [4] 1999 San Francisco Católico: 20 per year [4] 2012 San Jose: The Valley Catholic ...
On All Souls' day (2 November) the Mass of the octave (or feast) was said after Terce, the Requiem after None. When an additional votive Mass had to be said (for instance for the Forty Hours or for the anniversary of the bishop's consecration or enthronement, etc.) it was said after None. On the Monday of each week (except in Lent and Paschal ...
F. Feast of Christ the King; Feast of Christ the Priest; Feast of Corpus Christi; Feast of Fools; Feast of Our Lady of Ransom; Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian