Posts by Fr Jay Scott Newman

Dear Friends in Christ, This year the Solemnity of All Saints falls on a Saturday which means (according to the inscrutable wisdom of the USCCB) that the usual obligation for this holy day is lifted this year, so we will have one Mass for All Saints’ Day at 10 am on Saturday 1 November. This…

Dear Friends in Christ, The Synod of Bishops is a permanent consultative body in the Church established by Pope Paul VI in the years just after the Second Vatican Council, and it meets periodically to allow representatives from the episcopal conferences of every nation to deliberate on matters of general concern to the universal Church…

Dear Friends in Christ, Last week I described the care we take here in planning and celebrating the sacred liturgy, and I began by invoking the fifth of the Eight Principles of Evangelical Catholicism, which says in part: “The sacred liturgy, through which the seven Sacraments are celebrated and the Hours of praise are prayed,…