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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Catholic liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! At the Passover of most likely 30 or 33, Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus of Nazareth to death by crucifixion in Jerusalem. The main sources on the crucifixion are the four canonical Christian Gospels. Pilate's...
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Details The main sources which directly attest the fact of Christ's Resurrection are the Four Gospels and the Epistles of St. Paul. Easter morning is so rich in incident, and so crowded with interested persons, that its complete history presents a rather complicated tableau. According to St. Matthew,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass or Traditional Rite, is the Roman Rite Mass of the Catholic Church which appears in typical editions of the Roman Missal published from 1570 to 1962....
Details Jude was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude, the brother of Jesus, but is clearly distinguished from...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This cross was originally mounted on a tall pole and carried in religious processions. Therefore, the figures on each side are almost identical. In the center is Christ crucified. Looking on from the elaborate terminals at...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! James the Less is a figure of early Christianity, one of the Twelve chosen by Jesus. He is also called "the Minor", "the Little", "the Lesser", or "the Younger&...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine) is a container for relics. Relics may be physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! James the Great, also known as James, son of Zebedee or as Saint James the Greater, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Saint James is the patron saint of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Biblical parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-21) tells of a man who feasted and celebrated every day, while a beggar named Lazarus sat starving nearby. Dogs came to lick the sores...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The son of Zebedee and Salome, James is styled "the Greater" to distinguish him from the Apostle James "the Less", with greater meaning older or taller, rather than more important. James the...
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