The feast of St. Anthony on June 13 holds particular significance for anyone named Anthony, Toni, or Tony, with local ...

EDITORIAL: Many Catholics feel the switch downplays the immense importance of the great feast of the Ascension.

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

The change has to do with the day the celebration falls ... to the General Norms on the Liturgical Year and Calendar. Guam’s annual Catholic feast in honor of Santa Marian Kamalen or Our ...

ONITSHA – The Traditional ... days almost 29 ¼ days extra to equal about 365 ¼ days in English calendar. In some Igbo communities, the 13th month is insignificant and does not have any feast ...

Eugenie Pepper's kitchen is filled with traditional ... Julian calendar. After 55 days of strict fasting, including no meat and animal products, Tesfaye Yigzawe is anticipating a feast with ...

The proposed Feast of Creation in Christ would align the Catholic Church and several Protestant Churches with the liturgical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Catholic rite, ...

The feast day was only officially placed on the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar in the early 1600s ... While this is a recent phenomenon - the now traditional shamrock ceremony in the ...

Previously the feast day of St. Teresa of Calcutta, as the Vatican refers to the city in India where she began her work with the abandoned poor, was inscribed only in the proper calendar of the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of loving service to the poorest of the poor, to the General Roman Calendar so ...

Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a "beacon of hope" and an example of loving service to the poorest of the poor, to the General Roman Calendar so that her "Optional ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Corned beef and cabbage is not a traditional Irish meal ... Ireland have been observing March 17, the Catholic feast day of St. Patrick, since around the 10th ...