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Divorce and excommunication: What has the Pope said?

In his catechesis on the family, Pope Francis spoke about the need to pastorally welcome divorced people who live with a new partner, and explained that they are not excommunicated. Numerous media have seen in this a profound change in the doctrine of the Church, and even the most secularist media have [...]
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The sacrament of forgiveness: doing like the prodigal son

The Christian aspires to become more and more like his gracious model, Christ, "who has shared our human condition in everything but sin" (Eucharistic Prayer IV). To this end, the Lord Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Penance, in order to forgive all the sins that a Christian may have committed after Baptism and [...]
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Chalice, Paten, Corporal

CÁLIZ La palabra latina "calix" designaba un vaso con forma de copa para beber, común ya en tiempos de Jesucristo. Podía ser de materiales diversos. Jesucristo lo empleó en la Última Cena y los primeros cristianos continuaron esta tradición. San Pablo deja un testimonio elocuente de la importancia simbólica que comportaba: “Al beber todos del […]
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Living Ordinary Time

What is time? Time is, together with space, one of the coordinates in which human being and acting are inscribed, but it is also a richness that makes it bearer of other meanings, according to personal, social or religious experience. At the purely cosmic level, time is inexorable and passes equally for [...]
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The Eucharist of the 2nd century: a very modern rite

Thanks to the testimonies of the first Christians, we can know what the Eucharist was like in the second century. Glossing over the famous description of St. Justin Martyr in his book Apology I, we find some elements that have remained unchanged up to the present day. The liturgy of the Eucharist was carried out according to a fundamental structure comprising two great moments, which form a single [...]
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Silence before the celebration

"Sin el sol me quedo en silencio" ">https://www.arguments.es/wp-content/uploads/liturgia/2015/04/sine-sole-sileo-e1548003066612-1.jpg">En un pueblo cerca de Roma encontré un reloj de sol muy bien conservado; debajo se leía esta inscripción latina: "Sine sole sileo". Parecía un juego de palabras con mucha sonoridad de la "s". El diccionario me sacó de dudas: "Sin el sol, me quedo en silencio". Comentario […]
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The Roman Canon

A bit of history... Up to our days it is difficult to investigate the origins of the Roman Canon due to the lack of documentary sources (literary and archaeological). The first and most complete indirect testimony that is usually mentioned is the work of St. Ambrose of Milan, De sacramentis (4th century). There we find some prayers that are very different [...].
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5 'Panis Angelicus' inolvidables en honor a la Eucaristía

El Panis Angelicus es uno de los cinco himnos litúrgicos compuestos por Santo Tomás de Aquino para la fiesta del Corpus Christi. Te dejamos las 5 interpretaciones más famosas.
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Holy Week: what did Jesus do, according to the Gospels?

¿Qué se celebra en Santa Santa? ¿Cuál es su significado? Presentamos una sencilla reconstrucción, un resumen corto de la Semana Santa, a partir de los textos del Evangelio para entender cómo vivió Jesús cada uno de los días de la Semana Santa.
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Palm Sunday: history and liturgical piety

As is evident from the Gospels, on Palm Sunday, Jesus solemnly entered Jerusalem. He was received with enthusiasm by the people, witnesses of so many miracles that He had worked on their behalf. This ignited the anger of the scribes and Pharisees against Jesus. Jesus spent the whole of Sunday in the city, and in the evening he left [...].
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