The children burn palms to make ashes, have instruction and conversation on the meaning of ashes, of Lent, and of preparing (exercising their spiritual muscles) to get ready for Easter.
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Category: Children
For Unto Us a Child is Born
The incarnation has never been so real to me as when I’ve held my own infant daughter—our little in-the-flesh gift of God.
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New Text of Infant Baptismal Rite Approved
The vote passed with the needed two-thirds majority. 23 voted against the new text. 3 abstained.
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Warning: Girl Altar Servers May Cause Bad Liturgy!
What happens when women are involved with liturgy? According to a 2015 article, when females are involved with liturgy, we get bad liturgy.
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Fairies and St. Michael
Last week, the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the publication of a small, little book, whose trilogian successors C. S. Lewis said were ” like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as Songs of Innocence were in theirs.”
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The Church: A Bit Chaotic at Times
By now, thousands of infants have made their debut as church criers at this baptismal font.
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Infants accustomed to such singing are much quieter at their baptism – they already know the sound of singing voices and the pipe organ in the church space. As the babies become little children, during liturgies they want to run closer to the organ.
Read moreFirst Communion: Questions from an Eastern Christian
an you imagine your Church celebrating the communion of infants who have been fully initiated into the Church?
Read moreThe Lord often reveals to the younger what is best
I have this set of juice glasses in my house. I have been putting them away in the cabinet a few times a week for three years.
I have a 10 year old boy in my house, too…
Read moreViewpoint: By the Age of Ten, Young Catholics Are Losing Their Faith
by Msgr. M. Francis Mannion Two national studies produced by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), based at Georgetown University, finds that young
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