At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and the sanctuary. Catholic practice followed. That the altar rails also served ...

This Sacrifice is called the "Mass" very probably ... and if the altar is of wood this stone is inserted just in front of the Tabernacle. The altar stone reminds us of the early history of the ...

Turning to the First Communicants who would be receiving Jesus that day, he said this would be a day they would never forget.

In sacrifice and sacrament the ... even the expression celebrating Mass “facing the altar” or the claim that this was Mass “facing the tabernacle” or Holy of Holies. But nothing can ...

Fye, Anne Marie Amacher and Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger (Photo gallery at end of article) Jesus, present ...Read ...

This Memorial Day, as with all the others, it is fitting to solemnly remember those heroes who lost their lives fighting and ...

A family that, as Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Gold Star mother Mrs. Bixby during the Civil War, “laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” Lately, malcontents within our ...

A family that, as Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Gold Star mother Mrs. Bixby during the Civil War, “laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” Lately, malcontents within our ...

A family that, as Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Gold Star mother Mrs. Bixby during the Civil War, “laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” Lately, malcontents within our society ...