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• Fasting is observed during the Great Lent, every Wednesday and Friday throughout the year (unless a feast takes precedence over the fast), and on all days listed below:.
• Beginning seven weeks before Easter, Lent is the most important period of the year for the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church. ...
• Holy Week, from the evening of Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, is a special fast in the honor of Christ’s passion.
• Each Wednesday and Friday is observed with fasting, unless a feast takes precedence over the fast. ...
• The Fast of The Holy Apostles. Beginning on the Monday after All Saints’ Sunday - the Sunday following Pentecost - and lasting until the Feast of The Holy Apostles (Peter and Paul) on June 29th, this fast varies in length depending on the date of Easter.
• Preceding the Feast of the Falling Asleep of the All-holy Theotokos, this fast begins on August 1st and lasts until the day of the feast, August 15th.
• Beginning on November 15th, this fast lasts until the day of the Feast of the activity, December 25th.
• September 14th: The Elevation of the Holy Cross.
• Use various fillings, as described below, shaped either as triangles, or leave face open, as suggested in the recipes below.
• Place peas on pieces of dough (open face pies) and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 15 minutes, then place under broiler for a few minutes. ...
• Place on dough (open face pies). ...
• Mix zahter with just enough olive oil to make paste for spreading on pieces of dough (open face pies). ...
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• 162 The Twelve Days of Christmas begin with the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord on Christmas Day followed by several major feasts leading up to the Feast of the Holy Family through the Circumcision and the Solemnity of Mary to the Feast of the Epiphany .
• May the Light of Christ fill you with grace and glad tidings this Christmas and for the New Year All at The DAILY CATHOLIC, along with our wonderful contributing writers, wish you a blessed, holy Christmas and a grace-filled New Year with special messages from each below: .
• Today a small remnant of the militas Christi stand watch in safeguarding the Truths and Traditions as the Cains point out in Knowing the Truths of Holy Mother Church: Priceless!  Father Al's Christmas Message.
• He illustrates how the Mystery of the Incarnation has become the most powerful force on the face of this earth in his Christmas Message The Most Explosive Power in the World. ...
• John the Evangelist, the Holy Innocents, the Holy Name of Jesus, and the Holy Family with a special reflection of holy Joseph and Mary in his Christmas column Behold the Child!  The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart.
• In this year-end issue, we focus on the essential meanings and nature of Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany and how closely interwined they have been from the beginning with added impressions by Dom Gueranger taken from "The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church" in Christmas and Epiphany Fourth Lateran Council.
• " The Council officially set in stone the term 'Transubstantiation' for the mystery of the bread and wine confected into the body and blood of Jesus Christ and reformed disciplines of ecclesiastical life, as well as directing all Catholics to partake in the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist no less than once a year. ...
• The fourth set is observed following the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14th. ...
• Christmastide begins with the Christmas vigil, the glorious Midnight Mass of the Nativity and Christmas Day, followed by the Feast of the first martyr Saint Stephen, Feast of Saint John the Evangelist,  .
• the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the Feast of Saint Thomas Becket, and Sunday is the Feast of the Holy Family followed by the Holy Day of Obligation of the Solemnity of Mary/the Feast of the Circumcision on New Year's Day then the Holy Name of Jesus on Wednesday leading up to the Feast of the Epiphany on Sunday, January 6th. ...
• The day is coming when loyal Catholics may have to revert to such a code once more to uphold the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church. ...

• Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
• In the Book of Job, we face this problem: What is the origin of evil? We see how it is not the result of retributive justice, but it is a part and parcel of God’s Providence. ...
• We celebrate today the feast of the Triumph of the Cross over the power of evil. ...
•       Conclusion: What shall be our response in today’s context? Shall we rebel against God, like Ivan Karamazov in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Albert Camus in his Rebel? Shall we bear up stoically and remain tight-lipped? Or shall we like Job place our complete trust in God even in the face of the Incomprehensible? We are called to participate in the struggle against evil in every form: racism, social injustice, oppression, infidelity, dishonesty, corruption. ... But how? Not removing every difficulty, but by giving us courage to face it and overcome it. ...
• Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
• Isn't that the same solution to the problems we face?  Today is the feast of the Holy Cross.   All we have to do to protect ourselves and to find the strength the resist the poisons we face is to turn to His cross and we too will be protected. ...
•   Let's face it!  The teenagers and the young adults among us are deluged with the poison of our modern culture. ...
• Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
• The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which we celebrate today, started in the city of Jerusalem.   According to tradition, the Empress Helen, mother of the Emperor Constantine, found the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in the fourth century. ...   They destroyed churches and basilicas and stole relics that were in the churches, including the sacred relic of the Holy Cross. ...
• According to an ancient tradition, after the Holy Cross was recovered, it was returned to Jerusalem. ...   It was only then that he was able to carry the Holy Cross to the top of Mount Calvary. ...

• Tomorrow, five holy people were to be elevated to various degrees of sanctity as the singing of the faithful and the choirs transforms the piazza. ...
• On Sunday, June 10, the feast of the Holy Trinity, His Holiness Pope John Paul II would preside over four beatifications and one canonization. ...
• On Sunday, June 10, the feast of the Holy Trinity, His Holiness Pope John Paul II presided over four beatifications and one canonization. ...
• Saint Rafqa's icon, an oil painting on canvas showing her serene face, depicts her heroic life and great faith. The Maronites, accompanied by their spiritual leader Patriarch Sfeir and the representatives of civil, public and non-profit organizations in Lebanon and abroad, were the most visible at this holy event. ... The Holy Father's kindness and spirituality impressed everyone. ...
• In his homily, the Holy Father effectively focused on Saint Rafqa as a model for Lebanese Christians in their tormented region. ...
• The declaration of Rafqa as a Saint for the Universal Church; the chanting of the Holy Scriptures in Arabic according to the Maronite tradition, a grand gesture to the Arabic speaking Christians in general and the Lebanese in particular; and the site of the Piazza being transformed into a sea of waving Lebanese flags everytime the name of Rafqa or Lebanon was mentioned. ...
• It was impressive to see the many aged people who had traveled to Rome for this holy event. ...
• At a concert in Pope Paul VI hall, the choir of the Holy Spirit University performed hymns composed by Father Youhanna Khawand, resident hermit of Our Lady of Tamich, Father Youhanna Geha, Assad Gwan and Rawad Tarabay. ...
• Afterwards, the Holy Father held an audience in the Vatican's auditorium where the Lebanese were the largest single group. They cried out: "John Paul two we love you!" The Lebanese and the Holy Father have for years had a special relationship built on mutual love. ...

• The Feast of The Holy Epiphany .
• Prayer (traditional language) O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know thee now by faith, to thy presence, where we may behold thy glory face to face; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. ...
• Prayer (contemporary language) O God, who by the leading of a star manifested your only Son to the Peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. ...
• The Holy Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 (The coming of the Magi, or Wise Men) note on the readings:.
• note on the feast:.
• In poem and picture, the wise men came to be thought of as three kings, and in many countries (particularly Spanish-speaking ones), children receive gifts, not on 25 December, but on 6 January in memory of the gifts that the wise men brought to the Holy Child. ...
• Grant us grace to see thee, Lord, mirrored in thy holy word; may we imitate thee now, and be pure, as pure art thou; that we like to thee may be at thy great epiphany; and may praise thee, ever blest, God in man made manifest. ...

• The Feast of Tabernacles #2.
• Last Day and the Last Great Feast.
• From the book "The Temple" by Alfred Edersheim FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED: On the day before the Feast of Tabernacles - the 14th Tishri - the festive pilgrims had all arrived in Jerusalem. ... When the early autumn evening set in, the blasts of the priests' trumpets on the Temple Mount announced to Israel the advent of the feast. ... ), had shown his contempt for the Pharisees by pouring the water at this feast upon the ground, on which the people pelted him with their aethrogs, and would have murdered him, if his foreign body-guard had not interfered, on which occasion no less than six thousand Jews were killed in the Temple. As soon as the wine and the water were being poured out, the Temple music began, and the 'Hallel' was sung in the manner previously prescribed, and to the accompaniment of flutes, except on the Sabbath and on the first day of the feast, when flute playing was not allowed, on account of the sanctity of the days. ... cried, saying, O then, work now salvation to the Son of David,' they applied, in reference to Christ, what was regarded as one of the chief ceremonies of the Feast of Tabernacles, praying that God would now from 'the highest' heavens manifest and send that salvation in connection with the Son of David, which was symbolised by the pouring out of water. For though that ceremony was considered by the Rabbis as bearing a subordinate reference to the dispensation of the rain, the annual fall of which they imagined was determined by God at that feast, its main and real application was to the future outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as predicted - probably in allusion to this very rite - by Isaiah the prophet (Isa. ... Thus the Talmud says distinctly: 'Why is the name of it called, The drawing out of water? Because of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, according to what is said: "With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. "' Hence, also, the feast and the peculiar joyousness of it are alike designated as those of 'the drawing out of water;' for, according to the same Rabbinical authorities, the Holy Spirit dwells in man only through joy. ... ' But on the SEVENTH, 'that great day of the feast,' they made the circuit of the altar seven times, remembering how the walls of Jericho had fallen in similar circumstances, and anticipating how, by the direct interposition of God, the walls of heathenism would fall before Jehovah, and the land lie open for His people to go in and possess it. ... 'It was the last day, that great day of the feast. 'It obtained this name, although it was not one of 'holy convocation,' partly because it closed the feast, and partly from the circumstances which procured it in Rabbinical writings the designations of ' Day of the Great Hosannah,' on account of the sevenfold circuit of the altar with 'Hosannah;' and 'Day of Willows,' and 'Day of Beating the Branches,' because all the leaves were shaken off the willow boughs, and the palm branches beaten in pieces by the side of the altar.
•   Feast of Trumpets #1 .
• Feast of Atonement #1 .
• Feast of Tabernacles Age to Come .

• This feast, celebrated on February 2, is known in the Orthodox Church as The Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Another name for the feast is The Meeting of our Lord. Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians call the feast, The Purification of the Holy Virgin. About 450 AD in Jerusalem, people began the custom of holding lighted candles during the Divine Liturgy of this feast day. Therefore, some churches in the West refer to this holy day as Candlemas. The Feast of the Presentation concludes the observances related to the Nativity of Christ, a period that opened on November 15 with the beginning of the Nativity fast.
• He was a holy man and was noted as a very intelligent scholar. ...
• "Lord, now let Your servant go in peace according to Your promise, because my eyes have seen Your salvation which you have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory to your people Israel. ...
• Icon of the Feast .
• The Holy Icon shows that the meeting takes place inside the Temple and in front of the altar. ...
• Orthodox Celebration of the Feast of the Presentation.
• This Feast of our Lord is celebrated with the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, which is conducted on the day of the Feast and preceded by the Matins service. A Great Vespers is conducted on the evening before the day of the Feast. Scripture readings for the Feast are the following: at Great Vespers – extracts from Exodus 12:15-13:16; Leviticus 12 and Numbers 8; Isaiah 6:1-12, and 19:1,3-5,12,16,19-21; at Matins – Luke 2:25-32; at the Divine Liturgy – Hebrews 7:7-17 and Luke 2:22-40.
• Hymns of the Feast.

• Cappella Nova - Columba, Most Holy of Saints.
• LAUDS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. ...
• The community knows that it can celebrate the feast day of its Patron Saint free from the fear of English pirates that harry it from time to time during the summer months, St Columba looks after his own. ...
• In 1256, Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld, had established an annual grant for 20 candles to be lit on the altar during the vigil and feast of St Columba, to add to those usually burning. ...
• The monks sing from memory in the flickering darkness, prompted by the Precentor and the Rulers, On this special day the antiphons are sung in full at the beginning of each psalm, psalm group or canticle, before the Gloria Patri (prior to which the choir turns to face the altar), and after it too. ...
• This day is also the feast day of Saints Primus and Felician and a memorial of them is sung at the end of Lauds. ...
• The surviving music for the Feast of St Columba is found in Edinburgh University Library MS 21 l. ... Such lavishness is echoed in the manuscript, in the provision of music for the Octave of the Feast, for which no other source survives. ...
• Now it was to Dunkeld that King Kenneth I had the relics of St Columba brought from lona in 849, so the Feast of St Columba would have been kept there from the mid-ninth century. ...

• The Holy Season of Lent.
• The holy season of Lent begins the Church’s solemn preparation for the glorious feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and there are many spiritual and doctrinal aspects of Lent which we should consider in order to properly benefit from this penitential season.
• “As they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: ‘Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them. ...
• Our Holy Mother the Catholic Church takes Our Lord’s words seriously:.
• First, in order to bridle the lusts of the flesh, wherefore the Apostle says: ‘In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, in chastity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned’ (2 Cor. ...
• One of the means to accomplish this is to consider the sacred image of Christ Crucified as seen on the Holy Shroud of Turin. This blood-stained linen accurately identifies the wounds inflicted on Our Lord according to the Holy Gospels.
• As we begin our solemn preparation for the celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord — the greatest feast of the entire ecclesiastical year — let us join to our prayers, meditations and spiritual readings, the wholesome penance of fast and abstinence. ...
• But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head and wash thy face. ...

• Holy GreatMartyress Catherine of Alexandria.
• The Holy GreatMartyress Catherine was the daughter of the governor of Alexandrian Egypt Constus during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-313). ...
• The image of the Heavenly Bridegroom produced in the soul of the holy maiden an ardent desire to see Him. ...
• But the Child turned His face away from her saying, that He was not able to look at her because she was ugly, of shabby lineage, beggarly and mindless like every person -- not washed with the waters of holy Baptism and not sealed with the seal of the Holy Spirit. ... He lovingly received her, instructed her in the faith of Christ, admonished her to preserve her purity and integrity and to pray unceasingly; he then performed over her the mystery/sacrament of holy Baptism. ...
• Because of this, the feast was especially splendid and crowded. ...
• The empress was impressed by the strong spirit of Saint Catherine, whose face glowed with Divine grace. The holy martyress explained the Christian teaching to the newly-arrived, and they in believing were converted to Christ.
• Maximian again tried to entice the holy martyress, proposing marriage to her, and again he received a refusal. ... In the VI Century, through a revelation, the venerable head and left hand of the holy martyress were found and transferred with honour to a newly-constructed church of the Sinai monastery, built by the holy emperor Justinian (527-565; commemorated 14 November).

• "Three mysteries mark this holy day: today the star leads the Magi to the infant Christ; today water is changed into wine for the wedding feast; today Christ wills to be baptized by John in the river Jordan to bring us salvation. ...
• So what exactly is the significance of this event? The answer lies in the unique experience Jesus had, as heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. ...
• The entire Trinity manifested itself as the Father identified Jesus as his Son and anointed him for his mission with their Holy Spirit. Through the Son's gift to us of the same Holy Spirit, each of us has been empowered to identify ourselves with him and so share in an analogous way in his relationship with the Father. ...
• Even so, the theme of today's feast is only secondarily our baptism and primarily the Lord's baptism - and not even so much the baptism itself as the revelation that followed after Jesus had been baptized, a revelation (an epiphany) of his status as eternal Son of God. ...
• and renewal by the Holy Spirit,.
• HOLY FAMILY.
• All this is, of course, in considerable contrast to the inspired - and inspiring - narrative in Luke's Gospel of Jesus at age 12, which we hear today on this Sunday within the Octave of Christmas and feast of the Holy Family.
• Today's feast - a modern one, which dates back only to 1892 - reflects a critical contemporary concern to affirm family life in a modern world in which all sorts of social bonds have been sacrificed in favor of the socially corrosive claims of individualism and individual self-fulfillment. In his brief establishing this feast, Pope Leo XIII wrote: "When Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are invoked in the home, there they foster charity, there they exert a good influence over conduct, set an example of virtue, and make more bearable the hardships of every life. ...

• On the 6th of August, our Church celebrates the feast of the glorious Transfiguration of the Lord. The purpose of this feast is to celebrate that glorious event in the life of Jesus Christ, the Transfiguration, which some of the holy Fathers call the second Theophany. ... Let us then examine the event of the transfiguration, the institution of this feast and the spirit of its service.
• And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as snow. ...
• We ourselves heard this said from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. ...
• The Institution of the Feast.
• The observance of this feast goes back to the fourth century. ...
• This feast began to be solemnly observed in the Eastern Church under the title "The Lord's Transfiguration" from the sixth century; in Western Syria, in the eighth century, it was called "The Feast of Tabor".
• Originally, the feast of the Transfiguration was observed in February. However, since this joyful feast fell during the time of the Great Fast, its celebration was not in keeping with the spirit of fasting and penance. ... Thus holy Church, in keeping with this opinion, transferred this feast from the month of February to the 6th of August, because forty days later, September 14, is the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross - the commemoration of the passion and death of Christ.
• From the East, the feast of the Transfiguration reached the West somewhere around the seventh and eighth century. ... In 1457, Pope Callistus III extended this feast throughout the Western Church and commanded that it be observed on the 6th of August in memory of a victory over the Turks near Buhorod. ... The Armenians observe the Lord's Transfiguration on the 7th Sunday after the Descent of the Holy Spirit.
• The feast of the Transfiguration is one of the twelve principal feasts of our Church, having a one day pre4east and a seven day post-feast. The sticheras and canons of the feast were composed by St. ...

• FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY 1998.
• And we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family after many of us having sat at table with our families. ... The wonderful feast reminds us that tensions and difficulties are part of family life. ...
• RISK Most of what we think we know about the Holy Family is conjecture, or speculation. ... In the face of danger, they moved to Egypt, and later to Nazareth. The Holy Family risks to leave what is familiar in order to be kept safe from danger. ...

• THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH.
•       As part of our re-run mode for the summer we are bringing you the early installments of or mega series on THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH. ...
•       The fourteenth installment of this mega-part series on the History of the Mass and Holy Mother Church deals with the rise of Christianity and the subsequent growing pains of dealing with heresies such as Arianism which claimed many fatalities conversion-wise and how Holy Mother Church, the saints and pontiffs dealt with it. ...
• The people of God had spoken and because they did, Holy Mother Church became stronger. ...
• Their family was so holy that six are honored as saints. ...
• Basil laughed in the face of the devil, remarking that he owned nothing but his clothes and a few books and that he welcomed martyrdom. ...
• He had spoken against the Divinity of the Holy Spirit, maintaining that only the Father and Jesus the Son were God. ...
• Born in 349, John lived 58 years, dying on the feast of the Holy Cross on September 14, 407 while enroute to the village of Comana near the Black Sea to preach. ...
• During his two years as the Holy Father, Anastasius resolved the schism that had risen between Rome and Antioch, a schism that would unfortunately split the Church centuries later and a schism that Basil never intended but who Eastern Orthodox disciples attribute to following. Pope Anastasius strenuously reprimanded those who followed immoral and pagan practices and it was he who decreed that priests should also stand throughout the reading of the Gospel at Holy Mass. ...
• THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH.

• Page Contents: Feast of the Holy Rosary, Readings | Pope John Paul II messages on the Rosary | .
• Feast of the Holy Rosary.
• The feast of the Holy Rosary was established by Saint Pius V on the anniversary of the naval victory won by the Christian fleet at Lepanto, October 7, 1571. The victory was attributed to the help of the holy Mother of God whose aid was invoked through praying the Rosary.
• who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. ...
• " And Mary said to the angel, "How shall this be, since I have no husband?" And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. ...
• "October is the month in which Mary Most Holy, Queen of the Holy Rosary, is venerated. ...
• In the face of this, the Church tries to be faithful to her prophetic charism and remind all men about their duty to build a future of peace for the human family. ...
• The Rosary is a way of contemplating the face of Christ seeing him - we may say - with the eyes of Mary. For this reason, it is a prayer that drawing upon the core of the Gospel is in full accord with the inspiration of the Second Vatican Council and very much in keeping with the direction I gave in the Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio ineunte: the Church has to launch out "into the deep" in the new millennium beginning with the contemplation of the face of Christ.
• In fact, today is the feast of the holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. ...
• MARY - Marian Feast Days & Prayers Contents Page.

• The Holy Family of Nazareth, Jesus, Mary and Joseph are put before us by the Church this weekend as a model for our families. We call them the ‘holy family’ but that does not mean that they did not have problems. Just as every family has to face problems and overcome them, or to put it another way, has to carry a cross, so also the holy family had to carry crosses. ... We can easily imagine how misunderstood both Mary and Joseph must have been when Mary conceived Jesus through the Holy Spirit. ... We do not hear of Joseph any more so we presume that before Jesus began his public ministry in Galilee Joseph had died, the holy family suffering the greatest pain of all families, the pain of bereavement and separation through death. ... Not a very pleasant experience for any family, no matter how holy. ...
• Just as the holy family survived all its crises through love for each other and faith in God, let us pray during this Mass that our families will conquer all difficulties through love for each other and faith in God. ...
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• The Holy Sabbaths.
• The Feast of Trumpets.
• The Feast of Trumpets is the first of four special annual Sabbaths that occur during the Sacred Seventh Month on Yahweh's Sacred Calendar. ...
• The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) is the symbolism that points to the beginning of ALL of The Trumpets being sounded in succession, as per Revelation chapter 8 below. ... By ignoring Yahweh's Holy Sabbaths, Christians (and others) have completely separated themselves from Yahweh and from the key to unlocking the so called mysteries of The Book of Revelation and other prophecies.
• His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire (This is obviously not a mere angel). ...
• " The confusion over the identity between Yahweh and Yahshua is because the "Oneness of their Authority" makes Yahweh and Yahshua appear to be the same entity; But they are not! Only the authority, the will or Holy Mentality (Holy Spirit) are the same.
• As for the observance of the Feast of Trumpets, it is an emotionally conservative (solemn), but internally joyous occasion for those "Chosen Few" who worship Yahweh in both "Spirit and in Truth. ...
• 24 Speak to the children of Israel (The Chosen Few), saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn (Atsarah) rest (a serious Sabbath) to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a Holy convocation (assembly).
• In the seventh (Hebrew Calendar) month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
• Note: The Sacrifice for sin has already been made, and the "Living Sacrifices" of True Worshippers are being made every day, but as a personal memorial prepare a meal that symbolizes the Feast of Trumpets and internally rejoice in the Righteousness of Yahweh.
• "The Holy Sabbaths of the Sacred Seventh Month".
• Part Four - The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost).

•   Novena to the Holy Ghost.
• The novena to the Holy Ghost is the oldest of all novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord when He sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Ghost on the First Pentecost. ... To encourage devotion to the Holy Ghost, the Church has enriched this novena with the following indulgences: .
• The faithful who devoutly assist at the public novena in honor of the Holy Ghost immediately preceding the feast of Pentecost may gain: .
• A Plenary indulgence, if they take part in at least five of the exercises; and moreover go to confession, and receive Holy Communion and pray for the Holy Father's intentions. ...
• Those who make a private novena in honor of the Holy Ghost, either before Pentecost or at any other time in the year may gain: .
• Act of Consecration to the Holy Ghost (Every day of Novena) .
• Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost (Every day of Novena) .
• First Day -- The Holy Ghost .
• Ninth Day -- The Fruits of the Holy Ghost Act of Consecration to the Holy Ghost.
• Give me grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son, to say to Thee always and everywhere, "Speak Lord, for Thy servant heareth. ...
• Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost .
• O Lord Jesus Christ, Who, before ascending into heaven, didst promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish Thy work in the souls of Thy Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me, that He may perfect in my soul the work of Thy grace and Thy love. ...
• Holy Spirit! Lord of light !   .
• The Holy Ghost.
• The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Light, of Strength, and of Love. ...

• Walvoord writes as follows: "The use of the figure of a bride to represent the church in her relationship to Christ has in mind the oriental pattern in which marriage is contemplated as having three major steps: (1) the legal marriage often consummated by the parents of the bride and the bridegroom in which the dowry is paid and the young couple are formally married in a legal sense; (2) subsequent to the legal marriage, the bridegroom according to the custom would go with his companions to the house of the bride to claim his bride for himself and to take her back to his own home; (3) the bridal procession would be followed by the marriage feast which would often last for many days as illustrated in the wedding at Cana (John 2). ...
• As the marriage feast is the final stage, it should be clear that the Lamb has already come for His bride and claimed her previously in the rapture of the church. ...
• Although the Old Testament does not reveal God's purpose in calling out a church comprised of Jew and Gentile, (Ephesians 3), a great feast prepared by God Himself for his people was described by the Prophet Isaiah nearly 700 years BC:.
• "On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined. ...
• "It is a great honor to be invited to a wedding feast. It is a feast to which the entire human race is invited---but only a fraction of the human race will attend. ... The invitation goes out to everyone: 'Come to the marriage feast of the Lamb!' What a privilege that will be, to see the Bridegroom face to face, to be a member of His beloved bride, to share in the intimacy of fellowship with the Lord Jesus!" (Ray C. ...
• Chapter 24 of Genesis is a remarkable picture of the way God the Father would later send the Holy Spirit into the world to call out a bride for His beloved Son, our Lord Jesus that most commentators on Genesis take note of this. ...
• 22:2, John 6:44); (2) the unnamed servant, type of the Holy Spirit, who does not "speak of himself" but takes the things of the Bridegroom to win the bride (John 16:13,14); (3) the servant, type of the Spirit as enriching the bride with the Bridegroom's gifts (Gal. ...
• Jesus suggested a great marriage feast would be part of his final return to earth to be with his own. ...
• "And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast. ... Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find. ...
• The wedding feast, celebration, and intimate union with the Lord of the universe---who is Himself Love---will be so joyful, fulfilling and marvelous that all efforts should be focused on getting ready to attend:.
• "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. ...
• "Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 'When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, "Give place to this man," and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. ... But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. ...

• Yom Truach     (  The Feast of Trumpets   )  and .
• The LORD said to Moses,   "Say to the Israelites: `On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. ...
• There is a one day feast (two days outside Israel) but it is rather subdued , as each one searches his conscience and prays. ...
• The Day of Atonement is the central holy day in the Autumn season of Tabernacles. ...
• Leviticus chapter 16 makes clear that GOD set up the Day of Atonement to protect his people from coming into his holy presence in their sin and being destroyed as Aaron's two sons had been. ...
•    Kol Nidre dates from the Inquisitions when Jews were forced to accept Christian baptism and renounce their Jewish faith or face death. ...
• The last meal before the feast is a good square meal, but easily digestible. ...
• Hebrews 9 and 10 explain that Jesus "went into the heavenly Holy of Holies with his blood and made atonement once and for all"   (Heb 9 v12)  When Jesus died, the veil separating the Holy of Holies from the people was torn in two, from top to bottom, showing that access had been made available to all men. ...
• Jesus' trip into the (Heavenly) Holy of Holies was, clearly, made after His resurrection. ...
• (Following the fourth step of being filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
•    The heat is progressively turned up and the impurities are skimmed off until the refiner can see his face reflected in the surface of the pure, precious metal. ...

• 2720 0 0 The Feast of the Holy, Glorious and All-Laudable Apostle and Evangelist .
• Luke:  In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, One God. ...   The holy, glorious, and all-laudable Apostle and Evangelist Luke was born in Antioch. ...   He saw Jesus face-to-face, and was enrolled amongst the disciples. ...
• On the request of the Church and under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit, St. ...   He painted three icons of the most holy Mother of God and also icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and is the Father of Christian iconography. ...
• Luke’s relics were returned to Constantinople they were placed in the Church of the Holy Apostles directly next to the sacred relics of St. ...
•   The warmth of the Holy Spirit filled St. ...   To have a “burning heart” is to have a heart aflame with the love of God and full of the Holy Scriptures. ...   Did not the Holy Prophet Jeremiah call God’s word a fire?  If we are to emulate St. ...
•   He became a supremely wise philosopher of the true filosofia, Christianity, and he gave to the world His Holy Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles which have been more read and studied and have changed more lives for the good than any other philosophy in the history of mankind. ...
• Let us praise with sacred songs the Holy Apostle Luke, the recorder of the joyous Gospel of Christ, and the scribe of the Acts of the Apostles. ...   To His Master and Ours, Jesus Christ, be all glory and our praise together with His Unoriginate Father, and All-Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. ...

• In the city of his birth, a town laden with the perfume of the most delicate Marian devotion, adorned with the most worthy and unique title 'land of Mary Most Holy', his powerful personality was moulded. ...
• On the 30th of March 1968, the Most Holy Virgin Mary, under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, appears over a small mastic-tree (lentisco) in the village of El Palmar de Troya in the Province of Seville. ...
• The cry of the Most Holy Virgin, through Her messenger, is accompanied close at hand with prodigious signs which assure the authenticity of these apparitions, namely conversions, miraculous cures, stigmata,. ... But the Most Holy Virgin's cry becomes more forceful, more insistent.
• The true doctrine of the Church has been adulterated; the Most Holy Sacrament profaned; the Blessed Virgin set aside. ... One sole place of salvation remains: El Palmar de Troya, beacon and stronghold of the Faith, depository of Holy Tradition, seminary of the true teachings, altar where the one true Sacrifice of the Mass is offered. ...
• The Most Holy Virgin Mary through Her messenger, cries out unceasingly from the desert of El Palmar de Troya, now to be called Mount of Christ the King. ...
• At El Palmar de Troya a group of laypeople and the occasional priest remain on their knees hour after hour, day after day, dose to the Lentisco before the Holy Face of Our Lord and the Sacred Image of Our Crowned Mother of El Palmar. ...
• All, clergy and laity alike, are invited to the great wedding feast. ... The Marian Apostles do not lose heart in the face of many difficulties, but make the truth known with valour and decision. ...
• All are invited to the great wedding feast.
• This holy Cardinal did not hold his peace in the face of progressivism, nor at any moment did he accept the two villains elected in Rome after the death of Saint Paul VI.
• PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST.
• Our Lord discards them; and, as in the parable of the wedding feast, He sends out to the highways and byways to call poor sinners, the ignorant, the most despised of this world, the simple and humble of heart; and there begins the restoration of His Church, to the greater confusion and scorn of the proud.
• THE CARMELITES OF THE HOLY FACE.
• On the 23rd of December 1975, Clemente Dominguez, by order of Our Lord Jesus Christ, founds the religious Order of the Last Times, 'The Carmelites of the Holy Face', in its different branches, whose mission it is to save the Church and prepare the way for the Second Coming of Christ. ... Its members will be holy and valiant warriors: the Crossbearers, who together with the Cross shall bear the sword. ...

• 1996 HOLY WEEK ADDRESSES.
• Brethren and sisters, I welcome you back to the second day of our Passover Feast, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour. ...
• Today is the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Without this feast the Passover would not be complete. As you will recall from yesterday, the Feast of Paschal Lamb represented justification, which we sometimes call (not always appropriately) "salvation". ...
• So what is the next step? The Bible calls is sanctication, which is the process by which we are made holy. ...
• In the Feast of Unleavened Bread it is the yeast of hypocricy that we are to get rid of entirely. ...
• My brethren and sisters, the sanctfying influence of Christ through the Holy Spirit cannot take place in our lives if we are deceitful or hypocritical. ...
• We're in the Holy Land!" They weren't. ...
• Terrible dangers still face him. He may have crossed the Red Sea making his return to Egypt more difficult that going to the Holy Land but he is still in Egypt. ... And this is the lesson we are to learn from the feast of Unleavened Bread which the Israelites were commanded to eat for 7 days on the march. ...
• Though wine was not apparently drunk by the Israelites when they left Egypt, the inclusion of wine in the Passover Feast was a well established tradition by Jesus' time. ... As yesterday, this feast is for all the family members of the Covenant and this year, because the Church is for the moment disorganised, also for those who profess Christ and are seeking to obey Him in all things. ...
• {Feast of Unleavened Bread} .

• A Reflection on the Feast of the Assumption©.
• The magnificent Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrated on August 15 proclaims the deepest and most profound of these Christian mysteries and promises. ...
• (The Feast of Dormition, Great Vespers, Lete, Tone 2*).
• Come, let us all sing hymns to her noble and holy body that has contained the invisible Lord (Great Vespers, Aposticha, Tone 4*).
• From ancient eras, including pre-Christian times, the almond-shaped mandorla has been an artistic symbol used to designate a space surrounding a holy sacred persons. ... At the peak of the larger mandorla we see six wings around an angel face. ...
• Cry out, O David, and tell us, what is this present feast about which you sang in the book of Psalms? And David says, "Christ has carried up into the heavenly mansions her who bore Him without seed. ...
• It is recounted that she died after the conversion of Dionysius because the tradition says that he was present along with the holy apostles at her death. ...
• Perhaps we can reflect on the pillar of fire and cloud that preceded the Holy of Holies in the desert. Now the Holy of Holies is Jesus, and it is the preaching and teaching of the apostles that escorts Him into the future and the growing kingdom of the eschaton and the ever flowing fountain of God's Life.
• We see Peter as the father of the fledgling church, the one who represents all those gathered, the one who offers a sanctification of the holy bed. ...
• O Virgin, your Son has made you dwell in the Holy of Holies as a bright candlestick, flaming with immaterial Fire, as a golden censer burning with divine Coal, as the vessel of manna, the rod of Aaron, and the table written by God, as a holy ark and the table of the Bread of Life.
• These creatures represent the guardians of the Holy of Holies, God's effort to keep the Tree of Life protected until the end of time. ...

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•  Ancient Devotions for Holy Communion .
•  Feast of the Holy Name  (Catholic Encyclopedia) .
•  Holy Name of Jesus  (Catholic Encyclopedia) .
•  Litany of the Holy Name  (Catholic Encyclopedia) .
•  Society of the Holy Name  (Catholic Encyclopedia) .
•  Apostles of the Holy Face of Jesus Christ .
•  Ask Father: What is Holy Water and its purpose? .
•  Devotion to the Holy Eucharist Advances Devotion to Jesus' Person Most Catholics take for granted the intimate relationship between the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart. ...
•  Mary Gardens by Daniel Foley  Neglected Patrimony: The beauty and value of traditional holy card by Fr Ignacio Barriero (from Sursum Corda!, Summer 1998) --> .
•  Nine First Fridays Receiving Holy Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months, part of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is also a novena, though there are no special prayers prescribed. ...

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