Forgotten Customs of Ascensiontide
Ascensiontide As the Forgotten End of Pascaltide The total length of Paschaltide from Easter Sunday to the end of Whitsuntide is fifty-six days inclusive. In this way, Holy Mother Church shows us the joy of Easter has eclipsed the time of penance of Lent. Ascentiontide lasts for 10 days and is part of the Pascal…
Forgotten Customs of Rogation Days
How many Catholics understand what is meant by the greater or lesser litanies, or by the expression “the Rogations” – clergy included?
Domestic Church Customs: Rogationtide & Ascension Octave
"Anything with fluffy cloud-like meringue or whipped cream."
Medieval to Modern: Valentino Bucchi
Bucchi’s life and work resist easy classification.
Beating the Bounds: the Joy of the Rogation Days
Processions take the Faith from inside the churches, and bring it out to where the majority of people are.
The Pre-55 Paschal Feast of St. Joseph
Instituted by Pope Pius IX in 1847.
Respected Maestro Excluded from Vatican II
Virgili responded to the post–Vatican II liturgical reforms with clarity and pastoral balance.
Saint Gerard Majella & the Mysticism of Music
Transforming music into a sacred play.
Forgotten Customs of the Easter Octave and Eastertide
Easter itself is an 8-day celebration, and even after the Octave concludes on Low Sunday, the Easter Season lasts for a total of fifty days until the completion of Ascensiontide and the celebration of Pentecost Sunday. This period of time, especially for the Octave of Easter, is enriched with many rich customs all expressing the…
Dangerous Words and the Silent Impact of Ideologies
Which is an error just as great...