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Are Catholics required to attend non-Catholic services (instead of Mass) for the sake of ecumenism?
Catholic Answers Staff
Should the host be broken as the priest says "He broke the bread..."?
Jimmy Akin
When should Communion be distributed under both forms?
Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God
Is it okay for Roman Catholics to hear a Byzantine Mass and receive Communion there?
Catholic Answers Staff
Do priests ever ask their parishioners to accept Christ as Savior, as Protestant ministers do?
Catholic Answers Staff
Why is the Mass called the "unbloody" sacrifice of our Lord on his cross?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
May I attend a state-approved Mass in China to fulfill my Sunday obligation?
Peggy Frye
Is it all right to attend Mass and receive Communion twice in one day?
Jim Blackburn
Is it a requirement of all priests to say Mass daily, whether in private or in assembly, on vacation, or their days off?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Should we refrain from holding hands during the Our Father?
Jim Blackburn

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"Let us then not be ashamed to confess the Crucified. Be the cross our seal, made with boldness by our fingers on our brow and in everything; over the bread we eat and the cups we drink, in our comings and in goings out; before our sleep, when we lie down and when we awake; when we are travelling, and when we are at rest."

~ St. Cyril of Jerusalem in his "Catecheses" (xiii, 36), on the sign of the cross, a practice familiar to Christians in the second century and which had passed into a gesture of benediction by the fourth century, as many quotations from the Fathers show