Liturgy

Contents1 Liturgical times of the Catholic Church2 Advent3 Christmas4 Ordinary Time 15 Lent6 Easter Season7 Ordinary Time 28 Colours of Catholic liturgical vestments9 The liturgical year explained to children The liturgical times of the Catholic Church are the seasons in which the liturgical year is…

Contents1 The fabrics of mass services2 Decorations and type of embroidery for mass services3 The pall Mass services are always present in religious celebrations. Let’s get to know them better and discover how beautiful they can be. Sometimes we take for granted certain objects that…

Contents1 The Origins and Meaning of Pentecost2 The Holy Spirit: What It Is and What It Represents3 Prayer to Mary who unties the knots while waiting for Pentecost4 What Mary’s knots symbolise 50 days after Easter, she will untie the knots and celebrate Pentecost, which…

Have you ever been fascinated by a wooden lectern holding a ponderous, ancient tome? Fine objects, today lecterns are not only a prerogative of churches. We can find wooden or even plexiglass lecterns in libraries, museums, restaurants and even private homes. What is a lectern…

Each time we get sprinkled with holy Water, dipping our fingers in a holy water font and cross ourselves, we remember our Baptism. Since we were children, they taught us that each time we enter a Church, it is important that we dip our fingers…

Chalices, pyxes and patens. In short: sacred objects. They have always been fundamental elements of Liturgy, and have evolved throughout centuries but never essentially changed their primary concept: storing Christ’s body and blood in a worthy way. There are specific rules that define the use…

Contents1 The Papal Blessing (apostolic blessing)2 Urbi et Orbi blessing3 Eucharistic blessing4 Padre Pio blessing5 Saint Francis blessing6 The nuptial blessing7 Blessing of animals8 The blessing of Homes9 The Irish blessing10 The Easter blessing Blessings we should know, some are famous, some others are curious.…

Communion is the highest and solemn moment in a Mass, when bread turns into Christ’s Body. Here are a few mistakes we should avoid when approaching Eucharist. Eucharist. The most Holy Sacrament. Communion. Any way we wish to call it, this is surely the highest…

The Bishop is among the priests, one of the most important and invested figures with meaning for the faithful. In his role of “supervisor” (from the greek επίσκοπος, episkopos) he embodies in himself the value of souls pastor, the supreme minister of religion, teacher and…

Light has always had a very deep and essential meaning for men. There is no religion that hasn’t made it a key element in its mythology, no civilization that hasn’t celebrated it as an assimilable, if not overlapping, element to the very concept of life.…

The term liturgical clothes, or  liturgical vestments, generally indicates the clothing used by priests of various ranks in the context of religious ceremonies and festivals. These clothes differ in various characteristics and, in particular, vary in colour, depending on the time of year and the…

The term ‘censer‘ comes from the Latin thus, Thuris “incense.” This is also the origin of censer’s synonym is derived: it is sometimes called ‘incense‘. In Latin, it was also referred to as thymiaterium, incensorium, and fumigatorium. The thurible is a metal container, usually a…

Religious clothes have always been considered a sort of ‘uniform’ requested to priests to differentiate themselves from the common people. This is because since the origins of religion, there was the need to identify members of their communities even based on specific clothing. In particular,…

The candle holder is a church supply in every church and placed on the altar. It is a candle holder intended to support a single candle. Its use dates back to the very origins of the church, and is clearly linked and indissoluble to the…

The liturgical stoles are a vestment worn by deacons, priests and bishops just under the chasuble. In particular, the deacons wear the liturgical stoles on the shoulders, passing on the left shoulder and tying them under the right arm; priests and bishops wear them simply…

Processional crosses are mounted on long beams, which allow you to carry them in procession; are carried by an altar boy or a minor priest and usually lead the procession. In most cases, once you enter the church and reach the presbytery, processional crosses are set…

The host is the unleavened bread that symbolizes the body of Christ during the celebration of the Eucharist, the celebration which started by Jesus during the Last Supper. In fact, the host is not just a vehicle between us and Jesus, but, after the consecration it becomes…

The feast of Corpus Christi (“Body of Christ”) ends the festival that follows after Easter. It is celebrated on Thursday after the celebration of the Holy Trinity, although in many countries it falls on the following Sunday. The feast of Corpus Christi celebrates the real…