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December 21, 2020 CWN Editors Note: In 2019, Pope Francis issued Aperuit illis, an apostolic letter instituting the annual Sunday of the Word of God, which takes place on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. In this 10-point Note, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments reflects on the celebration and on the importance of Sacred Scripture in the liturgy. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN new...

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican’s liturgy congregation issued a note Saturday encouraging Catholic parishes around the world to celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God with new vigor. In the note published Dec. 19, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments suggested ways that Catholics should prepare for the day devoted to the Bible. Pope Francis instituted the Sunday of the Word of God with the apostolic letter “ Aperuit illis” on Sept. 30, 2019, the 1,600th anni...

The word ‘incense’ is derived from the Latin incendere, which means ‘to burn’. The earliest documented history of using incense during a Catholic liturgy comes from the Eastern branch of the Church. In the Old Testament, God commanded His people to burn incense (eg, Exodus 30:7, 40:27). Incense is a sacramental, used to venerate, bless, and sanctify. The visual imagery of the smoke and the smell reinforce the transcendence of the Mass linking Heaven with Earth, allowing us to enter in...

Pope Francis teams up with UN to educate world on sustainable lifestyles, gender equality, global citizenship Posted on Pope Francis teams up with UN to educate world on sustainable lifestyles, gender equality, global citizenship The launch of the collaboration between the Pope’s own Global Pact for Education and the UN’s Mission 4.7 took place this week during the Vatican Youth Symposium VATICAN CITY, December 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis launched a new partnership between the...

[Catholic Caucus] Beloved TX Priest Stripped of Faculties Posted on No room for conservative priests in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A beloved Texas priest has been officially stripped of his faculties after his defense of Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality landed him in hot water with his bishop. Father Clay Hunt was notified the day before Thanksgiving that his faculties were being removed immediately. The move came five months after the San Antonio Family Asso...

CDW Note on the Sunday of the Word of God This comes more than a year after Pope Francis published Aperuit Illis, a motu proprio instituting the Sunday of the Word of God. There was some commentary here on PrayTell on this new observance at that time and at the time of its first observance, at the start of 2020, I published a piece on “almost obligatory” Irish contribution to the observance. This new Note is to be welcomed, although one might wonder why it took fourteen months to be publi...

Detail from "Simeon with the Infant Jesus" (c. 1796) by Benjamin West [WikiArt.org] As our Advent journey draws to a close, we want to consider the last two canticles presented for our prayerful consideration by St. Luke, the Gloria Nunc Dimittis. We now move into the second chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, where we read of the birth of Jesus and various events connected to the infancy and early life of the Child Savior. These texts have been known to us since childhood, enchanting us then; it ...

Coleus You Can e mail me at Coleus 3 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, 4 as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. All Christian should argue for the integrity of every individual person made in the image of God, and that the gospel, if were going to be faithful to that gospel and faithful to biblical anthropology, requires us to be...

December 17, 2020 In a series of articles by its editorial board, media columnist Margaret Sullivan, and former Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett, the Washington Post has mounted a coordinated attack on Robert R. Reilly, the new nominee for VOA director, claiming he is an existential threat to the organization’s mission to provide independent reporting to foreign audiences. The reason they deem Reilly disqualified to serve as VOA director isn’t about a lack of credentials. He was dir...

16. December 2020 - 21:13 His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland and the entire episcopate of the Polish Orthodox Church have shown themselves to be among the most ardent supporters of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the autocephaly crisis led by the Patriarchate of Constantinople continues to unfold. In May 2018, the Synod of the Polish Church stressed the need for repentance from the Ukrainian sc...