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Is music allowed during the eucharistic prayer?
Peggy Frye
Is it required that the bodily remains or cremains be present at a Catholic funeral?
Michelle Arnold
I don't like the Novus Ordo but don't have weekly access to the Old Mass. Is it a sin not to go every week?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Can I receive communion in an Anglican church?
Peggy Frye
What are the rules for dipping the consecrated host into the precious blood?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Why would my parents complain about our plans to have a medieval-themed nuptial Mass?
Michelle Arnold
Why shouldn't we applaud the choir at the end of Mass?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Doesn't the new Mass reject Pope St. Pius V's mandate in Quo Primum requiring the Tridentine Mass?
Jim Blackburn
Should we kneel at Mass?
Jim Blackburn
What does Hosanna mean?
Jim Blackburn

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~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.