Search results

Today, I came about this page, which you can find on the EWTN server, written by a certain Fr. Joseph Dirvin: I quote a disturbing part: The Medal design submitted by the engraver in 1832 and accepted by Father Aladel was the second phase of the Great Apparition of November 27, representing...

I have been wearing a brown scapular on and off for several years. I would normally wear it for a longer period. And then I would stop. For example, I would put it away, because I got a rash on my back…later I resumed wearing it, over my clothes, because I wanted to show my affiliation with the...

The Good Friday liturgy doesn't have a penitential rite. But at the beginning of a Mass there should be one.

Well…creating the character, I chose reddish hairr and eyes similar to mine. However, I'm much fatter, and I usually wear slacks instead of such a beautiful dress. ETA: I also own a mantilla similar to the one depicted. ETA: I also own similar shoes, but I wear them only a few days a year.

The congregation make a small cross with the thumb on the forehead, the mouth and the chest -- either in the middle or there where the heart is. The priest makes a small cross into the lectionary before that. There are no prescribed prayers for that, but the meaning is just like said. When the...

Hi Merciel! At the beginning, you say the Our Father, then the Hail Mary once, and the Creed. After that, once the Eternal Father… and 10x the For the sake of… this decade is to be prayed 5 times. After that, thrice the "Holy God…" Some people also add the "O Blood and...

http://www.rosaryoftheunborn.com I don't like the site nor the sacramental offered. First, I don't like the rosary design. Second, I feel it's too expensive. Third, there are quotations of things that Jesus and Mary have said, but there is no confirmation that this is true. And last but...

It is never wrong to pray honestly for somebody. It could be that Britney has very painful problems. I am an ex-child performer myself, but thank God I am not a former child star. This must be difficult to get along with. And this whole "Britney is a virgin" stuff, maybe someone told her that...

The plastic beads that OLRM use, for example, break without major effort, I learned that myself. I placed the rosary in my briefcase, and two beads were crushed by some books. ETA: A friend of mine also crushed her wooden rosary beads when they fell out of her car and she stepped onto them.

Without doubt, I would give a rosary to a protestant who asked me for it. The idea of placing rosaries in churches…it came from the desire to make the rosary known among people who don't know this wonderful prayer. I placed rosaries in Catholic churches in the beginning, later I also did...

Hi! If your rosaries keep breaking…these are among the sturdiest: 1. Rosaries made of Job's Tears or hard wood with good quality wire using the wire-wrapped method or at least hand-made bows instead of jump rings (they do not last very long). 2. Same beads but knotted with strong cord. 3...

I didn't find it difficult. At first, you learn the prayers. Then the mysteries. And then you start to pray, with the leaflet (or print-out of a download) in your view. Don't count the prayers, let the beads count for you. After a week or two, I presume you know the mysteries by heart. -- You...

I sometimes carried a rosary. Sometimes not. At the moment, I carry a little decade-rosary with ten (big) beads and a large cross. I attached three medals to it: Miraculous, Scapular, St. Benedict. It is not only for praying that I carry the rosary, it is also a means for keeping the medals...

Hi! Thanks for your reply. Yes, I pray the rosary myself, and I almost always use the beads for that. Yes, I know the prayers and the mysteries by heart (although I occasionally use pictures, written meditations, scripture quotes…) and I announce the mystery before each decade. It is very...

I have occasionally placed rosaries (often with little books explaining the devotion) into churches, including protestant churches. I'm unsure whether this is a good thing to do. You never know what happens with them. Will they throw them away? Or what?

I once had a papal rosary, too. It was blessed by JP II and given to relatives of bishops. I gave it to a dear friend (who also received other gifts from me, such as a large icon and a solid gold medal). The next time I saw it, it was already ripped. But it was not her fault, the rosary itself...

I have some rosaries with stories attached to them. For example, there is the rose-scented one from Rome my sister bought me in Rome. And she remembered it, although she usually is quite forgetful. However, she misplaced it and gave me only the case (and a medal) for my birthday. However, when I...

Then either use other beads, or if you don't have another rosary, pray with your fingers. This is very useful because if you fall asleep during prayer (and this can happen, even with non-smelling beads) you cannot rip them, get a back ache because of lying on them, or something like that...

Until the Reform, all Protestants were baptized before entering the Catholic church… I once was a witness to a Protestant baptizm, where the pastor only aspersed the child's head. I have sincere doubts, that this was the right form.

Yes, they do: http://www.molkerei-weihenstephan.de/ http://www.brauerei-weihenstephan.de/index.php?page=home_1_1& (The brewery) They also have a college for agriculture and food processing.