Why do some dioceses move holy days, or not even celebrate them at all. Doesn’t everyone do the same thing? The short answer is no, not everyone does the same thing. Although the church is universal, there are many local customs and saints that each country, sometimes just a region, will honor. For example,...
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****For more enjoyable experience, please allow the video to run through and then play again to watch. What is the backdrop to the feast of Mary’s Visitation to Elizabeth, which we celebrate on May 31? The narrative of the Visitation of Elizabeth by Mary, her cousin, is recounted only in Luke 1:39-56. The Visitation...
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Why is October 11 significant in the life of Pope John XXIII and that of the Second Vatican Council? Pope John XXIII decided to convene the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962, the feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. John XXIII was attuned to the symbolic connections made through feast...
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