Life is full of moments where our emotions—love, joy, sorrow, confusion, hurt—render us speechless before God. Liturgy provides structured prayers that give us a voice when our own words fall short.

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Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion ...

By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger All in the family Marilyn Walsh, still absorbing the details of the ordination and ...

The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends ...

Of course, we can still have some liturgy in the vernacular. But if parishes were encouraged to offer, say, one Mass each week using the Latin Ordinary (the current texts of the Roman Missal in ...

We should even consider participating in daily Mass. Liturgy of the Hours Another way to continually live a sacramental life is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. This prayer is no longer for ...

liturgy and language. Eleven different episcopal conferences from the English speaking world on five continents have been consulted. The process of translating the Mass and its final product have ...

The pope asked God to help participants “live the days that lie ahead in a spirit of listening, mutual care and humility.” ...

Pope Francis's seaside mass in East Timor attracts thousands in huge crowds - Pontiff’s visit is first by pope since nation’s ...

The liturgy is based on how Catholics celebrated the Mass before the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s, a historic gathering of the world’s Catholic bishops in Rome, introduced reforms.

Tobin at the archdiocese’s annual Hispanic Heritage Mass on Friday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. in Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. This year’s liturgy will feature performances by ...