For some time now, I had been receiving similar messages from different persons privately, requesting to explain the reason why the Catholic Church omits ALLELUIA during...
Author - Chinaka Justin Mbaeri
A staunch Roman Catholic and an Apologist of the Christian faith. More about him here.
At one point in time or another, we have either encountered setbacks, crises of faith, disappointments, despair, etc. as a result an ill-fated event in our lives or in...
ARE CATHOLICS OBLIGED TO FAST OR PRACTICE ABSTINENCE ON FRIDAY OF THE OCTAVE OF EASTER?
In my previous articles, I explained how Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and other Fridays of the year are known as penitential days in the Catholic Church, and as a result...
WHY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DEMANDS ABSTINENCE FROM MEAT ON ASH WEDNESDAY AND GOOD FRIDAY FROM A SCRIPTURAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday must be understood as the Catholic Church Law. However, it must be noted that this Church’s law on abstinence from...
ON THE GRAVITY OF EATING MEAT ON GOOD FRIDAY AND OTHER FRIDAYS OF THE YEAR
From the 1983 Code of Canon Law (CIC) 1249: The divine law BINDS all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way. In order for all to be united among...
YOUR WEEPING SHALL COME TO AN END It is natural to see people grieve and weep as a result of the demise of a loved one. The thoughts of how lovable, caring, amiable, etc...
On Easter Octave, we experience the same joy that took over our hearts on the Sunday of the Lord’s Resurrection. For this reason, the Liturgy of the coming days...
Dear friends in the risen Christ, the resurrection of Jesus attests to his divinity, as St. Paul tells us: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe...
Holy Saturday is the day of the “great silence”. It begins on the night of Good Friday, with the stone that rolls to seal the tomb of the Lord, and ends with...
GOOD FRIDAY SERMON: HIS DEATH – OUR REDEMPTION
It is common to hear the expression “Christ died on the cross for us”, but what does it mean? How did the redemption of the sins of humanity through the death of Our...