Christ the King Sunday celebrates the all-embracing authority of Christ as King and Lord of the cosmos. Officially called the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King, it is celebrated on the final Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Sunday before Advent. This year, the feast falls on November... Read More >>

This question was anticipated by St. Paul. After a discourse on the resurrection of the body, he launches into more detail by citing your question: “Someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” (1Cor. 15:35) His answer describes not just... Read More >>

Catholic theology speaks of the “resurrection of the body as in the Apostolic Creed. Of course, the living can’t be “resurrected.” but they will be changed by acquiring a “spiritual body” (1Cor. 14:4), for heaven-bound persons this will be a glorified... Read More >>

The Five Glorious Mysteries turns our thoughts to the glorious events after His death and lead us to hope that we may share in the joys and glories of His heavenly kingdom. The First Mystery, the Resurrection, recalls to our minds Christ’s triumph over death. This event constitutes the... Read More >>

The five Sorrowful Mysteries bring to our minds in rapid succession the moving events of the last hours of our Savior’s life, from His agony in the garden to His death on Calvary’s cross. The first Mystery, The Agony in the Garden. Portrays the gloom of Gathsemani, where... Read More >>

The Holy Rosary The complete rosary consists of twenty decades. But ordinarily only the rosary of five decades is said at one time. There are four sets of mysteries upon which one meditates while saying the rosary: the joyful, sorrowful, glorious and luminous mysteries. The joyful mysteries... Read More >>

The origin of the Rosary is most interesting.  From its early days the Church urged its faithful to recite the 150 Psalms of David from the Bible.  This custom still prevails today.  Priests and consecrated religious are obliged to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office)... Read More >>

GREETING Priest: The Lord be with you. People: And with your spirit. PENITENTIAL ACT I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,... Read More >>

One of the most universal and popular devotion in the Catholic Church is that of the Holy Rosary. It is to be found in all the countries of the world from the frozen stretches of the Yukon to the burning sands of the Sahara and out into the Islands in the Indian Sea. It is popular with all... Read More >>

The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. They are co-eternal and co-equal. They... Read More >>

THE VALUE OF MARRIAGE The family has its foundation in the free choice of the spouses to unite themselves in marriage, in respect for the meaning and values of this institution that does not depend on man but on God himself: “For the good of the spouses and their offspring as well as of... Read More >>

Prophet, Priest, and KingThe Father sent Jesus to be his greatest Prophet, the teacher of God’s truth. He was also sent to be out Priest, who offered himself in sacrifice to the Father, and our King, who came to stat the Kingdom of God upon earth. We call these three roles of Christ hi triple... Read More >>