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: 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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this photo there are two women wearing either shawls or nun's habits. It is unclear if these are laywomen or nuns. The woman in the foreground is kneeling and holding rosary beads. This seems to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is an important place of prayer and pilgrimage that draws believers from all over the world who wish to prayerfully reflect and ask the Virgin Mary’s...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Polish Catholic Mission, Polish: Polska Misja Katolicka, (PMK) is a permanent Catholic chaplaincy for migrant Poles. It operates in a number of countries under the direction of the Polish Episcopal Conference. The origins of pastoral...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A young Marine finds a moment of quiet and solitude in which to offer up a prayer for the safety of himself and his comrades. Minutes later, the 1st Marine Division launched an offensive against entrenched...
A side-altar or bye-altar is an altar that is subordinate to the central or high altar in a church. The term is generally applied to altars that are situated in the bay or bays of the nave, transepts, etc. Side-altars may be recessed in a side-chapel, or against a main...
Peregrine Laziosi was born in 1260, the only son of an affluent family in Forlì, in northern Italy. At that time Forli was part of the Papal States. Peregrine's family supported the anti-papal faction. In 1283 the residents of Forlì were under interdict. Philip Benizi, Prior General of the Friar...
