The Times News has teamed up with area clergy to share ‘Words of Comfort’ twice a week in our print edition and online at ...

Amen. Morning Prayer of Thanksgiving: Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of this new day. I am grateful for the blessings of life, health, and the opportunity to serve You. Please guide my thoughts, ...

They also represent the Latin blessing “Christus mansionem benedicat,” which means “May Christ bless this house.” Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk ...

Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the house blessing so that each family can bless their home. A chalk home ...

We see this most powerfully in the details of Christmas and in the reality of the Blessed Sacrament. The altar at the Sacrifice of the Mass and the manger of Bethlehem communicate and facilitate ...

Designed to embody the seven divine graces of power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing ... and divine anointing. The Royal Essence Collection: A Symphony of Majesty and Divinity ...

Bishop Folda pours sacred chrism oil, blessed during ... sign of purification, anointing of the walls to set the building aside as holy, burning of incense to signify prayers rising up to God ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?