15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol ... with Baptism followed immediately by Confirmation and the Eucharist, while in the Roman rite ...

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism.

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From civil marriages to new houses, from graves to the water of baptism, they are mostly part of the normal ... in which somebody had apparently died. I did inform the Roman Catholic manager that I ...

Born with a Silver Spoon in One’s Mouth The spoon in question is the apostle spoon, or christening spoon, which is given to babies at their baptism ... in some Roman Catholic families both ...

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He lived in the fifth century and was actually born in Roman Britain—not Ireland ... on and spread Christianity to the Irish through baptism and confirmation. Hundreds of years after his ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, rosary devotions, rallies, and crusades were part of Catholic life. The rosary was a part of ... The present text appeared for the first time in the Roman Breviary (1568). No ...