The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...
Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...
On January 30th, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John ...
COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...
Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is one Catholic theologian, alongside St. Augustine of Hippo, who has continued to fascinate me. My admiration for them has grown so deep that I ...
A man is in a serious but stable condition after he was hit by a car. Emergency services were called to St Dunstan’s Street in Canterbury at 10.44pm yesterday (January 31), following a collision ...
The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...
The Feast of Brigid, also known as Imbolc ... One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young unmarried women ...
She was a longtime parishioner of Saint Dunstan Catholic Church working as Eucharistic Minister and volunteering at the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul for 15 years. Her natural skills in ...
St. John brought people to love Christ and the ... he composed Masses and Offices in their honor and had the first Feast of the Holy Heart of Mary celebrated on February 8, 1648, at Autun (France ...
The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ... and church dedicated to the Virgin Mary on Mount Carmel in 1263. Saint Louis, King of France, had visited Mount Carmel in 1254, and brought back six ...
the feast of Saint Joseph, the feast of the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and the feast of All Saints." ...