elements that merged with the Catholic festivity. The candles and rosemary blessed on Candlemas Day symbolize light, purification, and protection, so don't forget to have these elements blessed on ...

A. Beside the sign of the cross and holy water there are many other sacramentals, such as blessed candles, ashes, palms, crucifixes, images of the Blessed Virgin and of the saints, rosaries ...

The candle, representing Christ himself, is blessed by the priest who then inscribes in it a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end ...

Dioceses around Ireland will observe the annual 'Day of Prayer for Survivors of Abuse' tomorrow, 7 March, coinciding with the ...