Maybe you have heard that the Translation of the Holy Mass in English is changing!  In Advent of next year the way English speaking Catholics pray the Mass will change.  During the upcoming year there will be many opportunities to learn more about these changes, but if you are interested in a sneak preview of some of the changes and the rationale behind them check out Fr. Ron’s article which appears in the Nov/Dec issue of Lay witness entitled: The Mystery of the Written Word. For more information...

The New Translation is coming in Advent 2011

This week concludes our three week teaching Mass series. We hope that you benefited from this opportunity to contemplat what happens at the Mass. The Mass is the mystery of God’s love of us, its a reality that we can always understand better and understand more profoundly. During the coming year as we prepare for the new translation of the Mass a number of opportunites will be available for you to deepen your understanding and love of the “Source and Summit” of our Catholic Faith,...

Check out the Facebook page “Ask a Catholic Priest” where I contribute to the discussion. http://www.facebook.com/Fr.Ron.Floyd#!/AskAPriest?ref=ts Fr. Ron

Q. I was visiting a church, and I noticed a carving on the altar of a pelican feeding little pelicans. I have never seen this before. What does it mean? A A. The symbolism of the mother pelican feeding her little baby pelicans is rooted in an ancient legend which preceded Christianity. The legend was that in time of famine, the mother pelican wounded herself, striking her breast with the beak to feed her young with her blood to prevent starvation. Another version of the legend was that the...

No, priest must wear their clerics at all times….SYKE… Priests get this alot, although most people who know me quickly find out the answer.  As my classmates once noted I am a fish, I love the water, and so for better or worse you will often find me in a bathing suit.  Especially on Beach Day when for the last four years the St. Patrick’s Youth Group has travelled with me to Martha’s Vineyard. This video is a perfect answer to the question: Priests wear their clerics...

The Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (as it is often called today), goes back to the 13th century, but it celebrates something far older: the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion at the Last Supper. While Holy Thursday is also a celebration of this mystery, the solemn nature of Holy Week, and the focus on Christ’s Passion on Good Friday, overshadows that aspect of Holy Thursday. Thus, in 1246, Bishop Robert de Thorete of the Belgina diocese...

The ancient Sequence or pre-Gospel hymn of praise here is a rendition of it in traditional Gregorian Chant and below you will find a translation of the words. VENI, Sancte Spiritus, et emitte caelitus lucis tuae radium. COME, Holy Ghost, send down those beams, which sweetly flow in silent streams from Thy bright throne above. Veni, pater pauperum, veni, dator munerum veni, lumen cordium. O come, Thou Father of the poor; O come, Thou source of all our store, come, fill our hearts...

Question: last night we were going to speak on homosexuality, and iv always been told that it is a sin,ad people contradict it.now, im not homosexual, obviously, but i would really like this to be explained to me so i can better understand and deffend my faith.no rush in getting back.thank you for your time Answer: The great thing about the topic of homosexuality is that it forces us to consider what the Church teaches about human sexuality, which is that human sexuality is an awesome good when...

and why is it not really a Mass? Answer from Wiki: the Mass of the Presanctified (Latin: missa præsanctificatorum, Greek: leitourgia ton proegiasmenon) is a Christian liturgy traditionally celebrated on Good Friday in which the Sacrifice of Calvary is not re-presented, and in which Holy Communion is given from an oblation consecrated at a previous Mass which had been reserved. It had developed by the time of the Quinisext Council (Second Trullan Synod, 692). In the Latin Rites it is used only on...