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The feast of Conversion of Saint Paul is an ecumenical feast. It is celebrated not only by Catholics, but also by many Protestant Christians.
The feast first appears in the Gallo-Frankish liturgy …
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HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION
The Roman Empire celebrated the beginning of the New Year with wanton festivities, ceremonies, and gifts. The Church tried to counteract as attested by the words of St. Augustin
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SOLEMNITY
A relatively recent feast was motivated by the veneration of the Holy Family in the 19th cent. Canada. It spread under enthusiastic support of the pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) and Benedict XV.
Unlike most other liturgical feast days that …
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CANDLEMAS DAY
Ancient sources talk about The Fortieth Day of the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Since January 6 was originally celebrated as the day of birth, the 40th day fell on February 14. Once the celebration of …
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FEAST DAY
The baptism of the Lord was originally associated with Epiphany, but eventually it received its own feast day, the Sunday after January 6.
The baptism of Jesus is on his part the acceptance of his mission as God’s …
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SOLEMNITY
Epiphaneia or theophaneia (revelation, divine revelation) were the earliest names of this feast in the first Christian centuries. The current Roman liturgy calls it Epiphany of the Lord and it is also known as the Feast of the Three …
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CHRISTMAS
Christmas Day (and season) combines two motives: Birth of the Lord, Jesus Christ (Lat. dies nativitatis, natalis) and revelation (epiphany).
The gospels report about the birth of Jesus and offer their theological insights. In Luke’s gospel, Jesus …
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SOLEMNITY
Pope Pius XI introduced a Feast of Christ the King in 1925, commemorating 1600 years since the celebration of the Ecumenical Council of Nicea (325). It is a doctrinal feast day: it does not celebrate an event of salvation, …
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FEAST DAY
Andrew, brother of Simon Peter, son of Jonas is mentioned multiple times in the New Testament. He came from Betsaida, but worked and lived in Capernaum on Lake Galilee as a fisherman. He belong to the first disciples …
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