On November 30, 2025 we begin another liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent. Each year the first Sunday of the new liturgical year falls on the Sunday that is closest to the Feast of St. Andrew, the first-called Apostle. As we begin this new year a few things change immediately. The liturgical color […]
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As we now find ourselves within the season of Great Lent, we are given many opportunities to come into closer and closer contact with the life, and especially the passion and death, of our Lord Jesus Christ. During this season we will walk the Stations of the Cross as we gather together for them within
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On the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood
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This year due to the calculations of the calendar, the celebration of Easter, the Resurrection of our Lord, is quite early, the last week of March. And, as a consequence of this, the season of Lent which precedes it, and the season of Pre-Lent which precedes that is also quite early. On the last Sunday
During the month of November, we come to the end of one liturgical year and the beginning of another. The first Sunday of the new liturgical year is the Sunday closest to November 30, the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle. We will conclude our focus on the Gospel of Matthew in Year A and
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As we now find ourselves in the Ordinary Time season following the Christmas and Epiphany solemnities, these Sundays speak to us in a different way than the Ordinary Time Sundays much later in the year. These Sundays are in some ways an extension of the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Although on that particular day we
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We have just concluded the XXVI General Synod of the Polish National Catholic Church. It was most certainly an exhausting few days as we started off our days with early breakfast and continued with sessions all during the day and into the evening after dinner. The days were also extended since, as faithful members of
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As we find ourselves now in the month of September, there is just about one month until we gather for the XXVI General Synod held within the Central Diocese of our Church. We remind ourselves that the Holy Synod is such a critical part of what we do as members of God’s Holy Church. We
As we now find ourselves in a new liturgical year and in the time of late November and early December, we have entered the season of Advent, a season of waiting and preparation for the Nativity of Christ. I am always a little dismayed during this time of year because our secular culture has really
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As I write this article for God’s Field, the weather is finally starting to get wonderful and warm. It is often beautiful outside and even the rainy days remind us that new growth and a beautiful rebirth of nature is beginning all around us. Of course this reminds us that there is also another birth
