...throughout history. On Sundays, especially in the Season of Easter, in place of the customary Act of Penitence, from time to time the blessing and sprinkling of water to recall...
Mass Structure and Meaning: Introductory Rites
The Book of Jonah
all time. Key Verses: Jonah 1:3, "But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish..." Jonah 1:17, "But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and...
Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
...with the youthful Tobias has caused him to be invoked for journeys and at critical moments in life. Tradition also holds that Raphael is the angel that stirred the waters...
Book of Thessalonians
2:15), the Jews who rejected their Messiah, is the same that the Old Testament prophets suffered (Jeremiah 2:30; Matthew 23:31). Jesus warned that true prophets of God would always be...