North Alabama Oratory Blog

The former papal nuncio to the US writes to President Trump on the spiritual forces at work in the US riots. They are not spontaneous...

A view of our Paschal Candle after our Easter High Mass, featuring placement of the incense grains on the Candle just before the Liturgy...

Good Friday Service: Stations of the Cross with the singing of the Stabat Mater

The ironies in this Holy Week just keep piling up, as if some mythical bulldozer were running out of control. Today is Maundy Thursday,...

How ironic, we enter Holy Week through the Liturgy of the Palms [well, here in north Idaho, Pine branches......hey they start with a P],...

Corporate Christian worship has always been both personal and social. Even Jesus uttered the formula "when two or three are gathered in...

Unless you are living under a rock somewhere you cannot have helped but see the world wide closing of Churches in an effort stem the tide...

The battle over Sacramental Theology continues to this day with the Roman Catholic Church clinging tenaciously to Transubstantiation to...

After the Church of England’s break with Rome, the ritualism of the Church and the sacramental theology of Transubstantiation came under...

In the early Church, the philosophical idea of conversion of matter from one form to another [verses the mere changing of matter, such as...