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We’re now at midyear -- a good time to review our resolutions and efforts
By John M. Grondelski | July 1st 2024 12:10 PMSix months ago, you were toasting the new year 2024. Six months from now, hopefully you will say goodbye to 2024 and welcome the new year 2025, the quarter century mark. We just celebrated Midsummer’s Night on June 21-22. We’re now at midyear. “Midsummer” you say? Wasn’t it just the…
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Why continue the Saturday or Monday holyday 'get-out-of-Mass-free' card?
By John M. Grondelski | December 26th 2023 3:46 PMThanks to the Catholic Bishops of the United States’ Complementary Norms, January 1, 2024 -- the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God -- will not be a holyday of obligation. That’s because, under those Norms, certain holydays cease being holydays of obligation if they fall on Saturdays or Mondays. The…
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