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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Latin Mass wedding Mass (one of many votive Masses) is called Missa pro sponso et sponsa, or the Mass for the Groom and Bride. It is optional, and preceded by the Rite of Marriage. The...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Volume 1 of the Roman Ritual liturgical manual includes the complete liturgical formulas for six of the seven sacraments and their ritual rubrics (in red print), followed by the traditional prayers in Latin and English Source...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Volume 1 of this indispensable liturgical manual includes the complete liturgical formulas for six of the seven sacraments and their ritual rubrics (in red print), followed by the traditional prayers in Latin and English and rubrics...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Paul of Thebes is known to posterity because around the year 342, Anthony the Great was told in a dream about the older hermit's existence, and went to find him. Jerome related that Anthony...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Jerome, (c. 342–420) also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Latin priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. Jerome was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This painting, probably meant to hang in a church, is also called The Two Trinities. It alludes on the one hand to Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child, and on the other hand to God the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Chrism Mass is a religious service held in Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. The Chrism Mass is one of the most solemn and important liturgies of the Church year. Holy Thursday is the usual day...
