Faith Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:22:35 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Celebrating ChristƵapp Solemnity is downright exciting /opinion/columnists/item/34957-celebrating-christ-s-solemnity-is-downright-exciting /opinion/columnists/item/34957-celebrating-christ-s-solemnity-is-downright-exciting

ItƵapp that time of year again. The last Sunday of the liturgical year is a great and glorious day. It used to be known simply as “The Feast of Christ the King,” but has now been expanded to “The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.” Yes, please! 

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Is it possible to entrust the cause of one saint to the intercession of another? Would it ever be necessary? If the former was the greater saint, would it be odd to entrust him to the lesser?

]]> fr_desouza@catholicregister.org (Fr. Raymond J. de Souza) Fr. Raymond de Souza Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:00:00 -0400 Fr. Raymond de Souza: Syro-Malabar calendar elevates summer feasts /opinion/columnists/item/31921-fr-raymond-de-souza-syro-malabar-calendar-elevates-summer-feasts /opinion/columnists/item/31921-fr-raymond-de-souza-syro-malabar-calendar-elevates-summer-feasts

Our calendar of liturgical seasons is rather bare compared to some of our sister Catholic Churches. That is never more evident than in our long season of “Ordinary Time,” an uninspired translation of a banal original (in Latin, “Sundays of the Year”).

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As we begin a new liturgical year and also the season of Advent, here is a short quiz:

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