St. Mary, who is known as Mary of Egypt, lived from the middle of the fifth century to the beginning of the sixth century. Her youth did not presage anything good. Mary was twelve years old when she left her home for the city of Alexandria. Being free of parental...
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Unction is a holy mystery in which a priest or a bishop, by anointing a sick person with consecrated oil, asks, together with the Church, for God's grace which heals the sickness of the soul and the body.
During his earthly life, Our Lord Jesus Christ raised the...
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To understand the various liturgical particularities of the Lenten period, we must remember that they express and convey to us the spiritual meaning of Lent and are related to the central idea of Lent...
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The service of the Meeting of the Lord repeatedly tells us about the joy that the elder Simeon – and, in him, the entire Old Testament Israel – felt when he took in his arms the...
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