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Catholic Dictionary

Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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COMMUNION CLOTH

A long white linen cloth formerly suspended from the altar rail. Its purpose when held over the rail was to receive any particles of the Sacred Host that might fall by chance it its distribution to the faithful. It has been replaced in most churches by the Communion paten or plate.

Mon30 March
Lent

Monday of Holy Week

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For those following the readings of daily Mass in Lent, the Biblical best has been saved for Holy Week. The book of the prophet Isaiah contains four separate descriptions of a “Suffering Servant”—a shadowy figure called by God to suffer and give his life for the people. Today we read the first description of the…

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