Old Gallican Sacramentary

The Catacomb of Callixtus in Rome was used as an underground burial chamber for Christians during the third century AD. It was also a place where they congregated for worship to avoid detection since Roman soldiers considered it haunted and stayed away. The catacomb...

Old Gallican Sacramentary

The only people I heard pray in my growing up years were pastors. They used formal, religious-sounding words that I never heard outside of church. Everyone in the sanctuary became very still, folding their hands and closing their eyes. The whole exercise eluded me.  I...