15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol ... with Baptism followed immediately by Confirmation and the Eucharist, while in the Roman rite ...

Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end ...

These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism.

This was at a time throughout the Catholic world when liturgical formation ... the Archbishop suggested ways to make the symbol or ritual action a stronger sign of the sacred.

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars have issued a joint statement on where both traditions are unified and ...

The Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Logan, which has stood in its place west of Old Main Hill for almost 60 years, recently added a set of four stained-glass windows ...

Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a super-cape with symbols that attest to the highest vows of ...

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron took exception ... After rejecting the argument that the cross is a symbol of appeasing God’s wrath rather than divine love, Barron noted one last argument he ...

There's a reason why Catholics cover statues, crosses, and even some artwork during Lent, and it has everything to do with ...

In the Greco-Roman mythological world ... noted by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. Such a powerful symbol of renewal naturally resonated with the first generations of Christians, who ...

The baptism of the Holy Spirit represents a foundational work of God where believers are united with Christ and fellow ...

This multicultural upbringing was reflected in the memorabilia that Sunita took with her on her first space journey in 2007 – a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a statue of Ganesha and a St Christopher ...