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Censers and Thuribles

Chalices

Patens

Ambries (Aumbry)

Baptismal Fonts

Divine Mercy - What is it?
Excerpt: The Divine Mercy is one of the newest feasts of the Church, instituted by Pope John Paul II. It is celebrated the Sunday following Easter. Learn more....

Upbringing by James Stenson
Excerpt: Not too many books are available presenting the basics for good disciplining of children from a Catholic perspective. Upbringing, however, with the subheading “A Discussion Handbook for Parents of Young Children,” is just such a book.

The Women Who Led the Way
Fr. Robert Hermley OSFS


Excerpt: One of the biggest lies ever leveled against the Catholic Church is that it is amale-dominated Church. From the beginning of Christianity the Church has held our Blessed Lady in such high esteem that people outside the Church often criticize us for our devotion to Mary. Yet the Church teaches that she too needed redemption by the blood of Christ, but prior to her conception.

Upbringing by James Stenson
Excerpt: Not too many books are available presenting the basics for good disciplining of children from a Catholic perspective. Upbringing, however, with the subheading “A Discussion Handbook for Parents of Young Children,” is just such a book.

Feast of St. Sylvester I, Pope
Excerpt: Pope St. Sylvester I was born in Rome to Rufinus and Justa in the late 200's. He was educated by a priest named Charitius or Carinus in literature and theology and was ordained a priest by Pope St. Marcellinus. He witnessed Constantine's triumph in 312 and upon the death of Pope St. Melchiades was elevated to the papacy in 314. The same year he sent four legates to the Western Council held at Arles. The Donatist schism and the Quartodeciman heresy were condemned at this council and Pope Sy

Feast of the Holy Family
Excerpt: The Feast of the Holy Family is dedicated to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, commemorating their life together in Nazareth and calling us to focus on Catholic family life.

Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr
Excerpt: The Fifth Day of Christmas – Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Martyr St. Thomas Becket is the OTHER St. Thomas, martyred for the Catholic Faith in England by a king named Henry over matters of Church governance.

The Feast of St. John the Evangelist
Excerpt: St. John the Evangelist, frequently referred to as “the Beloved Disciple” in the Gospels, was one of the first disciples called by Christ and is considered the author of the Gospel of John, at least the first of the Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation. He was also the only apostle not to die a martyr's death even though the emperor Dometian tried very hard to make it twelve for twelve.

The Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Excerpt: Elizabeth Seton was born into the Bayley family in 1774, just two years before the American Revolution. She grew up in affluence among the socialites of New York City. Her mother was the daughter of an Episcopalian Rector and she died when Elizabeth was a youngster of three. Her father was a doctor and professor, and he saw to the education of the young girl. At the age of 19 she married Will Seton, and together they had five children. Along with her duties as a wife and mother, she cared for th

What are the Twelve Days of Christmas?
Excerpt: The twelve days of Christmas, also called Christmastide, start on the evening of Christmas Day and end on the morning of Epiphany (January 6th).

Feast of St. Stephen, Martyr
Excerpt: St. Stephen, the patron saint of deacons, lived in the Apostolic era and was martyred in the year 33 A.D. St. Stephen was one of the first deacons and was the first Christian martyr. His feast is on December 26. In the Acts of the Apostles the name of St. Stephen occurs for the first time on the occasion of the appointment of the first deacons of the Church (Acts 6:5). Dissatisfaction concerning the distribution of alms from the community's fund having arisen in the Church, seven men were

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Excerpt: On December 31st we usher in the New Year with late night champagne, half-baked resolutions and epic movies. But in the midst of this activity the Church asks us to celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God; a feast day of epic proportions and fulfilled covenants, a dogma that sheds as much light on the nature of Christ as it does on the nature of His mother.

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
Excerpt: In the New Testament, St. Paul writes that God the Father “bestowed on him (Christ Jesus) the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phillipians, 2:9)

Feast of St. Basil the Great
Excerpt: St. Basil was Bishop of Caesarea (an area now in eastern Turkey) in the fourth century and is one of the foremost Doctors of the Church, who along with St. Athanasius, is noted as an outstanding defender of Christian orthodoxy during the Arian heresy – a heresy which, among its other errors, denied the Divine Nature of Christ. St. Basil was the son of St. Basil the Elder and Emmelia, the daughter of a Christian martyr, and was one of ten children, three of whom became saints – Basil, Macrina and

Feast of the Holy Innocents
Excerpt: Herod was the king in Judea at the time Christ was born. He was an unpopular king, working as he did for the Romans, and his cruelty knew no bounds. He feared any threat to his power, and news of this newborn king troubled him. The wise men whom he had asked to report the whereabouts of the Christ Child, did not return to him. Thus, "Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region

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