Outside Articles
What are Side-Chapels for?
Shown here is the side chapel of St. Teresa of Jesus, with the relic of her foot, in the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Rome.
ASK THE LITURGIST – The side altars
Shown here is a side altar dedicated to the Poor and Holy Souls in Purgatory in the Carmelite church in Padua.
Concelebration Tomorrow - From Dom Alcuin Reid’s Foreword to “The Holy Eucharist - The World’s Salvation”
This placard is on the ceiling of the main entry way into the Cathedral of Quito Ecuador. The phrase is from an antiphon used in the Common of the Dedication of a Church. It means: “This place is holy wherein the priest prays for the failings and sins of the people.”
In Defense of Side Altars
Side altar with the incorruptible body of St. Juliana Falconieri in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy. Notice how it looks not used any longer.
Who Actually Delegitimizes the “Novus Ordo Missae”?
Depicted is an allegory of justice on the ceiling in the Vatican Museum. The placards read: "The law gives to each his own."
Concelebration in the Byzantine Rite
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kiev-Halych, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, exchanges the Peace with a fellow bishop. This liturgy was celebrated in Rome at the Church of St Sophia just after he was elected and confirmed in March 2011; the liturgy had to be celebrated outdoors, in front of the church, to accommodate the number of faithful in attendance.
Note on the Concelebration of Holy Mass in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite
by Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan