Details This image refers to a religious ceremony called the Easter Vigil, which takes place on the night before Easter Sunday in the Christian tradition. During this ceremony, Catholic priests bless a fire that is used to light candles and lamps in the church. This fire symbolizes the light of...
Details The image relates to a religious ceremony called the Easter Vigil, which takes place on the night before Easter Sunday. The ceremony involves a Liturgy of the Word, which is a part of the Catholic Mass that focuses on readings from the Bible. The Easter Vigil is traditionally held...
Details The image refers to the Pascal Candle, which is a large candle used in the Christian liturgical celebration of the Easter Vigil. The candle is typically made of beeswax and is adorned with various symbols and designs, such as the cross, alpha and omega symbols, and the year of...
Passion Sunday is the fifth Sunday of Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar. It marks the beginning of the two-week period called Passiontide, which focuses on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. On this day, Christians remember Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, which is also known as Palm...
Details: The Eucharist is a sacrament of the Catholic Church in which bread and wine are blessed and consumed as a memorial sacrifice of Christ's body and blood[1][2][3]. It is also known as Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper[4]. The whole Christ...
Details: Eucharistic adoration is a Eucharistic devotional practice primarily in Western Catholicism in which the Blessed Sacrament is adored by the faithful. This practice may occur either when the Eucharist is exposed, or when it is not publicly viewable because it is reserved in a place such as a church...
Details: ANNAPOLIS, Md. (October 18, 2020) As part of the United States Navy’s 245th birthday celebration and observance, Catholic Mass is celebrated at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel by Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who has served for the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA, since 2007. The central theme...
Details: Incense is used during significant services (benedictions, processions, and important Masses) by swinging a censer. The censer is known as a thurible in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and some other churches. A thurible is often a metal container the size and shape of a coffee pot...
Details: ANNAPOLIS, Md. (October 18, 2020) As part of the United States Navy’s 245th birthday celebration and observance, Catholic Mass is celebrated at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel by Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who has served for the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA, since 2007. The central theme...
Details: Many Catholics and Christians around the world remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. This day is also on the Sunday before Easter Sunday. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 49943002343_ec55acaa73_o.jpg 917 KB download-circle...
Details: Requiem Masses are masses that are offered for the dead. They derive their name from the first word of the Introit, which may be traced to the Fourth Book of Esdras, one of the Apocrypha, at the passage "Expectate pastorem vestrum, requiem æternitatis dabit vobis". Memorial Day...
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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The annual May procession by Knights Templars is one of the highlights of the year in this town in Murcia, in southern Spain. The May festivities in honor of the Blessed and Vera Cruz are a...
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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! St. Joseph's Church is a Franciscan Roman Catholic church in the Old City of Nazareth. Early traditions identified this site of the church as the place of the carpenter workshop of the Holy family....
YOKOSUKA, Japan (April 8, 2012) - Lt. Cmdr. Jose Pimentel, Roman Catholic chaplain aboard the Japan-based Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), leads his congregation in prayer during an Easter Sunday Catholic mass aboard the ship. Source [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36614130@N06/7059698235] Free Downloads Below...
This photo is from St. Andrew's Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery in Valyermo, California. On the right side is one of the original Benedictine Monk from Monastery in China when they had to leave China due to Communism (Mao Tse Dong) took over the country in the 1960'...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (July 25, 2018) Lt. David Hammond, assistant command chaplain of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), recites a prayer during Roman Catholic Mass in the ship’s chapel. Bonhomme Richard is currently underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. (U.S....
Holy Eucharist refers to the three aspects of Christ’s body and blood — as sacrifice during the Consecration of the Mass, as Holy Communion, and as Blessed Sacrament. These three aspects form the core of Catholic belief on the Holy Eucharist. Only wheat bread and grape wine can be used....
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately 60 kilometers (37 mi) west of Venice and 200 kilometers (120 mi) east of Milan.The city is predominantly Roman...
1971 Day of Mourning -- Third annual commemoration ceremonies for the 5,000 victims of the 1968 Hue Massacre began in Phu Cam Catholic Church. The Huế massacre was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam during their capture,...
U.S. Army officers attended a special Easter Mass Mar.30 at Monte Berico held in honor of Vicenza’s military and police units. Italian Carabinieri from the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units, a key U.S. Army Africa partner organization tasked with mentoring international police officers for...
"May 1968: Field Mass: Lieutenant Commander Paul J. Antos (Albany, New York), holds Catholic Mass in the field for Marines of 2/4 [2d Battalion, 4th Marines] during Operation Napoleon/Saline (official USMC photo by Staff Sergeant J. Reid)." From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine...
Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known by its previous name, Saigon, is the largest and most populous city in Vietnam, situated in Southern Vietnam. The three most prevalent religions in Ho Chi Minh City are Mahayana Buddhism with Taoism and Confucianism (via ancestor worship), which are often celebrated together in...
