Beating the Bounds: the Joy of the Rogation Days — By: OnePeterFive

Above: the Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields on Rogation Sunday at Hever, Kent Taken February 1967. One of the major elements of the Church’s Liturgical Year in all its varieties – Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, Lyonnais, Sarum, Braga, Ordinariate, Dominican, Carmelite, Byzantine, West Syriac, East Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Coptic, Ethiopian, Malabarese, and Syro-Malabar – is…

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In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday after Easter — By: OnePeterFive

The 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo draws us into that peculiar Christian experience of living between gift and fulfillment, between consolation remembered and consummation promised, between the joy of Easter already given and the greater joy that still presses toward Ascension and Pentecost. The whole formulary has a tensile quality. Expectancy. Movement….

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Catholic Relief Services urges lawmakers to prioritize global hunger as farm bill vote nears — By: Catholic News Agency

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. House of Representatives nears a crucial vote on the farm bill, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is urging lawmakers not to sideline international hunger relief. In a recent advocacy appeal, the organization called on Americans to contact their representatives in support of global food aid programs, emphasizing that such efforts…

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White House to bring back firing squads as Pope Leo XIV calls for U.S. death penalty to be abolished — By: Catholic News Agency

The Trump administration has announced that it will bring back federal firing squad executions in the United States — a move it claims will “strengthen” the national death penalty — while Pope Leo XIV is simultaneously offering support to those seeking to abolish capital punishment in the U.S. and around the world. The U.S. Department of…

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