Trivia: Which Marian feast days are celebrated by the universal Church?
Each day focuses on a different event of her life or on a particular attribute of our heavenly mother.
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Each day focuses on a different event of her life or on a particular attribute of our heavenly mother.
Pentecost is one of the few feasts of the liturgical year where red is worn by the priest and deacon. It symbolizes both the fire of the Holy Spirit and love.
While Roman Catholics are familiar with red on Pentecost, Byzantine Catholics rejoice in the Holy Spirit by using the color green.
The appointment of Fr David Waller as the first Bishop Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham represents not only a major new chapter in the life of the Ordinariate, but a rare landmark moment for the Church throughout the Anglosphere: the elevation of a former Anglican clergyman to the episcopate. It also brings to mind how cradle Catholics can forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts.
The feast of St. Pius V is celebrated April 30, the day before the anniversary of his death