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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]
Prayer card of Our Lady of Solitude of Porta Vaga from the Philippines. Most cards are circulated to assist the veneration of the saints and images they bear.. Special holy cards are printed for Catholics to be distributed at funerals by the family of the deceased that include the name and usually dates of birth and death of the deceased.
Awarded for service to the community of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, for playing the church organ at all occasions for 37 years. Robert is a self-taught organist and led the parish choir, along with wife Gretta, throughout his 37 years service. 24 December 2018
The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent , in the Mass "the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is present and ...
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A red papal cope, worn with a mitre by Pope Benedict XVI. Under all these different forms, the cope has not substantially changed its character or shape. The cope is a vestment for processions worn by all ranks of the clergy when assisting at a liturgical function, but it is never worn by the priest and his sacred ministers in celebrating the Mass.
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.
This Mass was the "conventual" Mass (missa conventualis); it completed, with the canonical Hours, the official public service of God in such a church. A conventual Mass then was to be sung or said in all cathedrals and collegiate churches that had a chapter ; in this case it was often called the "chapter" Mass ( missa capituli ), though the ...