Tag: relics
Question Corner: What’s the scriptural basis for praying for the dead...
Q: What scriptural basis is there for praying for the dead, for their repose, or for praying to the dead, for their intercessions? And...
Opportunity to venerate saints’ relics offers graces for attendees at NEC24
By Sean Gallagher, OSV News
INDIANAPOLIS -- The line to enter the relic chapel at the National Eucharistic Congress snaked a long way through the...
Blessed Carlo Acutis Exhibition returns to St. Elizabeth Church, Wilmington on...
St. Elizabeth Parish in Wilmington invites the faithful to a Eucharistic Encounter Weekend featuring the return of the relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis.
From Friday,...
How to obtain relics?/When to leave altar during recessional — Q&A...
Q. Please forgive my awful handwriting. I have multiple sclerosis and also Parkinson's disease and can no longer do very well on a typewriter...
Pope Francis: Gift of St. Peter’s relics meant to encourage Christian...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said giving fragments of St. Peter's bones to the head of the church founded by Peter's brother, St. Andrew,...
Honoring saints can heal body, soul, says priest leading relics tour
MIDDLESEX, N.J. — Father Carlos Martins preaches that for Catholics to reach heaven, they must possess forgiving hearts, participate in the sacraments and live...
Why do Catholics venerate relics?
The veneration of relics is a fundamentally biblical practice; it is not some sort of innovation in the centuries after Christ. On the contrary,...
Two U.S. Catholic sites hold vast collections of relics
The Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics in Ohio is home to more than 1,153 relics, ranging from slivers of Christ's cross and...
Authenticating and protecting relics: The new Vatican instruction
The significance of relics in the church is well crystallized by the Gospel story of the woman desperate to stop her bleeding who approached...