RCIA for the First Sunday of Advent – the Readings

Today’s liturgy invites us to become a church of expectancy and hope. We are looking to the future; we are anticipating the coming of the Lord at the end of time.
The Catholic Church has a three year cycle that takes us through most of the Bible in the readings at Mass. Today we begin the [...]

Catechesis on the Priesthood

This Sunday I will be leading the Breaking Open the Word again for our RCIA participants. The guideline that I have says to focus the discussion on the priesthood, both the ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood. This entails a lot of prep work, for me at least.
So I have read through the Letter to [...]

Call to Holiness Conference – Detroit

I went to the Detroit area Call to Holiness Conference at the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak last Saturday. They had a great lineup of speakers who gave awesome talks on the Treasures of the Mass while in the setting of a beautiful Art Deco church.
The first speaker of the day [...]

New Words: A Deeper Meaning, but the Same Mass

The USCCB has launched a new website detailing the Third Edition of the Roman Missal since the July 17th vote on the four liturgical actions. It is awaiting final Vatican approval of the English translation of the Latin version that was published in 2002.
One of the changes is to the current “The Lord be with you” and [...]

More on the Fr. Corapi Conference

This blogger has a good article on the conference. He was on the main floor and was much closer to the action on the stage. He also has a good commentary on the protestors outside the arena.
So then we arrived at HSBC Arena about 7:30, half an hour before the first sermon. My seat was [...]

The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome

Today, August 5th, is the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, one of the four main basilicas in Rome. (The other three are St. Peter, St. John Lateran and St. Paul Outside the Walls.) The Vatican has a nice website for The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major):
For [...]

St. John Vianney, Patron of Parish Priests

Today is St. John Vianney’s feast day. Pope Benedict XVI has declared this a year for priests on the 150th anniversary of the natural death of the Cure of Ars, aka St. John Vianney.

St. John Vianney, Patron of Parish Priests (1786-1859) The Secret of His Holiness – A Lesson for Priests and Parents Alike
Jean [...]

Fr. Corapi: We’re at War!

Teresa Tomeo, host of Ave Maria Radio’s Catholic Connection show, interviewed Father John Corapi in her national hour segment today. He discussed his conference in Buffalo, NY, which is in August, and he talked about the End Game. (He has a talk on this topic available on his website.) Today’s Catholic Connection program is available [...]

New Translations for the Mass are Progressing

The USCCB made a news release on July 17th outlining the voting on the four liturgical item actions that have been voted on at the past few assemblies of the bishops. All four passed at the July meeting.
All Four Pending Liturgical Items Pass; Work On The Translation Of The New Roman Missal Continues
WASHINGTON—All four liturgical [...]