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A Tour through the Mass!

Frank O'Loughlin 6 February 2026 1 Comment
What do we mean by a Tour of the Mass? Many of us have been going to Mass since we were infants, others among us may have come to it…
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A Tour through the Mass!

Frank O'Loughlin 30 January 2026 1 Comment
The Mass! Well, the Mass is something that many of us are so used to that we can more or less take it for granted.  Sometimes, we may even wonder…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 31 October 2025 No Comments
The Mass and Vatican II Well, what did Vatican II get up to in regard to the liturgy? For most Catholics, the changes in the celebration of Mass were the…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 17 October 2025 No Comments
Sunday: The Original Feast We have become accustomed to the great feasts of Easter and Christmas and see them as pivotal points of our year with seasons preceding them and…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 10 October 2025 No Comments
Mass: Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries These centuries were marked by the follow-through from the Council of Trent (1545-63). That Council was called to set forth a Catholic response to the…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 3 October 2025 1 Comment
The Council of Trent and the Mass The Council of Trent went for eighteen years, from 1545-1563. It was called as a rather late response to the Protestant Reformation and…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 19 September 2025 1 Comment
The Mass: A Different and Difficult Time Following the fall of the Roman Empire and the establishment of ‘barbarian’ kingdoms throughout Europe, things changed! Many of the Roman institutions and…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 12 September 2025 2 Comments
Mass in the fourth Century In the fourth century (300’s), very significant changes began to occur in the Church. From the 320’s on, the Church was fully recognised as having…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 5 September 2025 2 Comments
Eucharist (and Church) in Second and Third Centuries Over the course of the second and third centuries, we know that there were a lot of things happening in the church, but…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 29 August 2025 No Comments
Development of the Liturgy of the Eucharist Last week, we looked at the origins of the liturgy of the Word. This week, let’s explore the origins of the Liturgy of…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 22 August 2025 No Comments
Early Development of the Liturgy of the Word The way in which the Christian Liturgy of the Word came about gives us a good, if partial, insight into the early…
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Understanding our Faith

Understanding our Faith

Frank O'Loughlin 15 August 2025 No Comments
The Mass, the Beginnings of it all! In the course of a long history, the Mass has known many changes. I think that it is enlightening to look at its…
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