"I was a youth in 1960, but I clearly remember waiting with anticipation in 1960 for the Fatima secret to be revealed. Interest in Fatima was very strong then, the devotion was flourishing, and my parents – like so many others – were anxiously waiting for the Pope to open the sealed letter and...
From Vatican News... ST. BERNARD, ABBOTT AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH A family gathered together in prayer Bernard was born in 1090 at Fontaine, in France, of a good family. When he was 22, after having studied grammar and rhetoric, he entered the monastery founded by Robert of Molesme at Citeaux (in Latin, Cistercium -- the order...
Wishing all our bloggers and readers a very happy Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven. Feel free to share your favourite prayers, hymns, stories - even your favourite jokes, of the good clean fun variety - to celebrate the Feast. First, though, click here to read Munificentissimus Deus - the Apostolic Constitution...
Martin Blackshaw, aka blogger Athanasius, comments on the Holy Week services this year... On November 16, 1955, The Sacred Congregation of Rites published the Decree Maxima Redemptionis Nostrae Mysteria, sub-headed "The General Decree for the Revised order of Holy Week as promulgated by Pope Pius XII". To emphasise the authority with which the Supreme Pontiff was...
