On November 2, the Catholic Church commemorates the faithful departed. Praying for the dead is an ancient tradition, asking ...

In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray in their home by reciting the Rosary: "We need to return to the ...

Furthermore, one day of the week is set aside for prayers for the dead -Saturday, on which it is customary to have a service for the dead, unless it coincides with a feast, if such is to be served on ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

His name for the rosary prayer was the "New Psalter of the Virgin," highlighting thus that the rosary ... Ancient Rome celebrated the "rosalia," a spring festival commemorating the dead. In Greek ...

The month of October is dedicated to the rosary, a Catholic prayer that Christians believe bestows "spiritual roses" upon the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a priest told Fox ...

So this is a fitting time to consider Our Lady as “Queen of All Saints” (because that is what she is and we hope to be) and ...

Catholics who pray the rosary and believe according to the teachings ... that the presence of Boko Haram in Nigeria is all but dead. Bishop Doeme continues to strongly promote the rosary in ...

As part of commemorating the faithful departed on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2 — traditionally known in countries like Mexico as ...

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Silent prayer will not be automatically banned in new protected zones around abortion clinics in England and Wales coming ...