feast days of the catholic church

I heard the Armenian and Eastern Orthodox Churches have a 5 day fast period preceding the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. In the Catholic it was 14. Is this true or is it not. How many days are considered fasting days preceding the Feast in the Armenian Apostolic Church and how much in the Roman Catholic Church?

I have never heard of a fasting and/or abstinence period in the Catholic Church other than Fridays and Lent.

With love in Christ.

2008-07-31 13:19:33 by gorgon

Lyrics: (sorry if they are kind of out of order. I need some time to sort this out., thanks for understanding.) EASTER Refrain Hail thee, festival ...

I'm a member of an Orthodox Church and during our Liturgy, prior to the reading of the Epistle and the Gospel, we say a few prayers one of which is called the Troparion. It varies from day to day, basically it glorifies a Saint, etc.

On the Feast Day of the Annunciation, for example, it is as follows:

"Today is the beginning of our salvation, the revelation of the eternal mystery! The Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin as Gabriel announces teh coming of Grace. Together with him let us cry to the Theotokos: Rejoice, O Full of Grace, the Lord is with you."

Is there any equivalent during the Mass? Or something similar such as the text is unique to that particular day? If so, what is that section called so I may find the text on the internet.

The reason I ask is because I have a godson to be baptized that day and both Churches celebrate the Annunciation that day. I would like to include the text of our Troparion and the Roman Catholic equivalent with my gift.

The Introit hymn/psalm is usually specific to the day. The Graduale and Alleluia (outside of Lent) change as well.

Some feasts (major ones) have a longer Sequence Hymn - very similar to the Troparions you mention.

The "Gradual" and "Tract" (as this is during Lent, and Alleluia is not sung in any way) are done between the Epistle and Gospel in a Traditional Catholic Mass,

Look up Gradual. Alleluia. Sequence or "sequentia" in Latin.

Here are the proper Introit, Gradual, Tract (replaces the Alleluia verse) for Annunciation:

Annunciation
of the Lord:
Rorate caeli... Caeli
enarrant
GR. Tollite portas
TR. Audi, filia
Ave Maria... et
benedictus
Ecce virgo

Any decent RCC Priest will let you include the Troparian.

2007-02-26 16:52:23 by on_the_bb

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I have been told that this is a new feast day on the Catholic calender, but am unable to find any information on it.
"Mary, who was assumed into heaven and crowned queen of heaven and earth"(Catholic Constitution on the Church, 69).

Yet the Bible states Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth"
Confusing????
Exodus 20:1 you shall not make yourself a carved image- any likeness of anything that is in heaven above........
you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
How can this commandment be kept and Mary worshipped????
Marysia - it should not matter if I am Catholic or not.... I am asking about the Bible and what it says. I am currently studying the bible and realising that what I have been taught is not in there.
So I am asking for assistance. Catholic or not we should all be able to do that, yes????
Catholic Mythbuster - that is more confusing. Mary is dead, but she is still Mary - just like the Queens mother is dead and she is still the Queens Mother. But where in the bible does it say she is in heaven and is to be worshipped.... your comments dont bust any myths for me at this stage.
By comparing worshipping Mary to the Queen is interesting. Why do we need to adore royalty, aren't they just people like us, why do they need special titles. But it still leaves me with the question why do people worship Mary - isn't God enough?????

Luke 1:32-33 states:

He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, 11 and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."

And Mary is crowned as queen in heaven in the Revelation 12:1-5:

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. ... She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne.

Mary is mother of Christ the King. Both in the Bible and in historical practice the mother of the king becomes the Queen Mother.

Nobody two hundred, five hundred or a thousand years ago would have been confused about this term. But this is hard for people to understand in these times where royalty and kings and queens are few and far between.

With love in Christ.

2009-08-24 02:11:59 by Cassie

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Where it Listed Catholic Feast Days for the 100% KJB believers to celerbrate

These calendars/Almanacs included many feast paying honor to many early Christians and Church fathers as the fallowing few [and these are just a few of them]:
Mar. 12 St Gregorie [ A Pope of the Catholic Church]
Aug. 28 St Augustine [one of the greatest Catholic writers of all time]
Sept. 26 St. Cyplian, [Catholic of Antioch who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Diocletian at Nicomedia, 26 September, 304, the date in September being afterwards made the day of his feast]
Sept. 30 St. Jerome, [The creator of the Latin Vulgate, died at Bethlehem, 30 September, 420]
Oct. 9 St. DDenis [Bishop of Paris, and martyr. Born in Italy, nothing is definitely known of the time or place, or of his early life. His feast is kept on 9 October. . Denis with his two companions were seized and as they persevered in their faith were beheaded (about 275) after many tortures]
Oct. 26 St. Crispine [beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of their execution is given as 26 October, 285 ]
Nov. 23 St Clement [ A Pope of the Catholic Church]

As for the Saints departed, I honour their memory, and in honour of them do we in our Church observe the days of so many of them as the Scripture doth canonize for saints" [From A Premonition to All Most Mighty Monarchs, Kings, Free Princes, and States of Christendom Works, ed. James Montague, Bp. of Wint hester (1616), pp. 301-308.]
Nov. 23 St Clement [ A Pope of the Catholic Church]
Gee they even honored a Catholic Pope
nd we all know who he was
Pope Clement I (called CLEMENS ROMANUS to distinguish him from the Alexandrian), is the first of the successors of St. Peter

so much for the king james bible belivers who say that the catholic church started in 300 ad
it's not in the Bible to celebrate catholic saints... specially in the KJV 1611

Try reading the original 1611 not the one edited by the scottish bible society gee i wonder why they wanted to keep the truth from you
you can find it on the net
it's not in the Bible to celebrate catholic saints... specially in the KJV 1611. i'm a baptist Christian

and the KJV was translated for angelicans bozo

And they shun me because I honor saints. Pff! They should double check their book!

2009-02-06 19:32:25 by Delusions of grandeur

Catholics, how can you still claim that the catholic church is the one true church, when so many thing that you follow violate The HOLY BIBLE.


Here is a short list...

1. Prayers for the dead – 300 A.D.
2. Sign of the Cross – 310 A.D.
3. Wax votive candles – 320 A.D.
4. Veneration of saints and angels – 375 A.D.
5. Mary declared “Mother of God” – 431 A.D.
6. Priests begin to wear vestments – 500 A.D.
7. Worship in Latin – 600 A.D.
8. Temporal power of the papacy granted by Phocas – 610 A.D.
9. Feast days in honor of Mary – 650 A.D.
10. Kissing the pope’s feet – 709 A.D.
11. Temporal power of the papacy confirmed – 750 A.D.
12. Adoration of Mary, saints, images, and relics legalized by 2nd Council of Nicea – 788 A.D.
13. Holy water – 850 A.D.
14. Veneration of St. Joseph – 890 A.D.
15. Baptism of bells – 965 A.D.
16. Canonization of dead saints – 995 A.D.
17. Fasting on Fridays and Lent – 998 A.D.
18. Rosary beads – 1090 A.D.
19. Pope Boniface VII decrees celibacy of priests – 1097 A.D.
20. Inquisition of heretics – 1184 A.D.
21. Sales of Indulgences – 1190 A.D.
22. Transubstantiation of the wafer – 1215 A.D.
23. Confession to a priest – 1215 A.D.
24. Adoration of the host (Wafer God) – 1220 A.D.
25. Bible forbidden and placed on index of forbidden books by the Council of Valencia – 1229 A.D.
26. Red hats for Cardinals – 1245 A.D.
27. Feast of Corpus Christi – 1264 A.D.
28. The Miraculous scapular – 1287 A.D.
29. Roman church as the only true church – 1303 A.D.
30. Cup forbidden to laity as Communion – 1415 A.D.
31. Purgatory decreed by the Council of Florence – 1439 A.D.
32. Doctrine of the seven sacraments – 1439 A.D.
33. Tradition of equal authority to the Bible – 1545 A.D.
34. Justification by works and not by faith alone – 1545 A.D.
35. Creed of Pope Plus IV makes all the unscriptural doctrines of the Council of Trent binding – 1560 A.D.
36. Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary – 1854 A.D.
37. Papal infallibility – 1870 A.D.
38. Papal decree on mixed marriages – all marriages not celebrated by Roman priest declared null and void – 1908 A.D.
39. Pope reaffirms Mary as Mother of God – 1931 A.D.
40. Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Pope Pius – 1950

4 REASONS TO NOT BE A CATHOLIC
(1) The catholic church affirms it is the original church, when the it arose in Vatican, Rome, in the century 4, about the year 313, its founder was the emperor Constantine. When this emperor liberated christianity and a little later prohibited all other religions, all pagans became members of the roman catholic church and brought all their paganism to this church, which got more and more corrupted along the years. Now the original christian church arose in Jerusalem (Acts 2), in the first century, its founder is Jesus Christ (Mt 16.18). Christ promised his church would never be corrupted (Mt 16.18). All its members are saved ones (Cf Ephe 1.22-23; Rm 2.5; Hb 12.22-23).

(2) The roman catholic church denies the sufficiency of the Scripture as the only rule for faith and practice, enough to save the ones who believe in it, as we clearly see in texts such as John 21.31; At 17.11; 1Co 4.6; 2Tm 3.16, etc.

(3) The catholic church teaches salvation and justification through works and uses a passage in the letter of James (2.21; 24) to apologize that one can’t be saved through faith alone, but through faith plus works. They despise the fact that (a) the own James wrote that Abraham was justified by faith (v.23) – (b) When James said, “Can faith save him?” in that context he meant that we can’t help anyone’s physical needs with faith only demonstrated with just words, but demonstrating our faith helping with works. Compare with verses 15-17. (c) The verses 21 and 24 are explained by the verse 18. James is not speaking about justification before God, but before men (v.18) and emphasizing that our faith should be demonstrated with works, not that we need works to be saved. The New Testament makes clear we’re saved “”not through workmanships that we had done”” (Titus 3.5), but through God’s grace alone (Ephe 2.8; Titus 3.7).

(4) The catholic church teaches Mary is our Mediator, she and Jesus. But the New Testament leaves no doubt that there’s only one Mediator between God and men and this Mediator is Jesus Christ (1Tm 2.5).

2009-09-09 16:00:54 by Israel Lover †-pray4revival-†