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Mass in the Catholic Church. 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 ...
ISSN. 0018-4268. Homiletic and Pastoral Review (HPR) is a religious journal, the first Catholic Clergy magazine to appear in the United States and has been the leading journal of its kind for over a century. The current editor-in-chief is the Reverend John Cush, professor of theology at Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) in Yonkers, New York. [1]
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (Latin: Ordinariatus Personalis Cathedrae Sancti Petri) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or personal ordinariate of the Catholic Church for Anglican converts in the United States and Canada. [ 3 ] It allows these parishioners to maintain elements of Anglican liturgy and tradition ...
The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9] This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.
Nonetheless, the amended form is presently referred to as the Nicene Creed or the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed. The Nicene Creed is part of the profession of faith required of those undertaking important functions within the Orthodox and Catholic [6][7] Churches. Nicene Christianity regards Jesus as divine and "begotten of the Father". [8]
The present list was established in canon 1247 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, [4] now canon 1246 of the current Code of Canon Law. Even before the time of Pius X, the bishops in many countries had obtained the Holy See's approval to diminish the number of non-Sunday holy days of obligation, making the total fewer than 36.
v. t. e. The Code of Rubrics is a three-part liturgical document promulgated in 1960 under Pope John XXIII, which in the form of a legal code indicated the liturgical and sacramental law governing the celebration of the Roman Rite Mass and Divine Office. Pope John approved the Code of Rubrics by the motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July ...
Homily. A homily (from Greek ὁμιλία, homilía) is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, [1] giving the "public explanation of a sacred doctrine" or text. The works of Origen [2] and John Chrysostom (known as Paschal Homily) [3] are considered exemplary forms of Christian homily. [4]