[Elsie]

 Interesting...

 

Apologetics A-Z

These free sessions help Catholics explain (and defend) Catholic beliefs, practices and historical events to non-Catholic friends, neighbors and coworkers. Instructor Mike Luther presents a verse-by-verse walk through the Gospel and shows that there can never be any contradiction between Catholic teaching and Sacred Scriptures. Through lecture and lively discussions, participants learn to take a fresh look at familiar Scriptures.

Designed for those of college age and older (although some exceptions can be made for high-school students), these ongoing sessions meet monthly, typically on the last Sunday of each month after the 11:30 a.m.

Mass in the Religious Education Building on East Street. Feel free to grab a doughnut from Café Rosario and bring it with you to class!

http://www.holyrosaryindy.org/

The Holy Eucharist is offered at our three forms of the Mass:

the Ordinary Form ("English Mass" or "Novus Ordo"),

the Extraordinary Form ("Traditional Latin Mass" or "Tridentine Mass"),

and the Anglican Use.

 

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I attended a funeral here on Monday.  And was wondering about the many diiferent things I saw that are not found in Protestant churches.

I hope that some of our FR Catholics can enlighten me a bit on what may seem to be trivial questions.

1. In the niches where Mary and Joseph are represented; I noticed one has Blue candles and the other Red ones.  What significance is there to the color difference?

2. What significance is there to the incense?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

[Mrs. Don-o]

No significance to the color of candles. In our sanctuary we don't have niches, but we do have free-standing figures of Mary and Joseph on the right on the left on plinths (cool word, huh?) w/o candles.

Incense symbolizes prayers ascending up to God (as you can read in the Psalms and in the Book of Revelation, among other places) and also the dedication of a person, place, or thing to God.

For instance, in the funeral service you (probably) saw the priest circling and incensing the casket, the Easter candle, the altar, and the deacon, and the deacon incensing the priest and the congregation. If the deacon was walking up and down the aisles swinging his censer, or swinging it more or less in your direction from the steps of the sanctuary, you were incensed!! Or you might have been sprinkled with Holy Water. Full disclosure: did you get incensed or sprinkled?