Day: December 4, 2024

(ACN) — Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is making an urgent appeal for prayer and support for the Christian community and all residents of Aleppo, Syria, who face a worsening humanitarian crisis following the recent occupation of the … Continue reading → The post Emergency Campaign: Prayer and Solidarity for the Christians of…

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Reading 1 Is 25:6-10a On this mountain the LORD of hostswill provide for all peoplesA feast of rich food and choice wines,juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.On this mountain he will destroythe veil that veils all peoples,The web that is woven over all nations;he will destroy death forever.The Lord GOD will wipe awaythe tears…

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God created man in his image, in the divine image he created them; male and female he created them: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it” (Gen 1: 28). This is the very first thing that God chooses to say about us in the Bible! That He created us in His own…

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The consistent emphasis of the popes on Saint Thomas Aquinas reveals an extraordinary convergence of wisdom that spans generations. Across their writings, the Angelic Doctor emerges not merely as a historical figure but as a living beacon of intellectual, spiritual, and pastoral guidance—applicable to those studying for religious life and Holy Orders, as well as…

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter’s Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as a group of prelates chanted their prayers before a simple wall marked with a cross. In preparation for the opening on Christmas Eve of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s…

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To help you better welcome our King at Christmas, here is a prayer by a Scotist Franciscan theologian, Père Chrysostome, O.F.M. The prayer was granted a plenary indulgence by the Supreme Apostolic Penitentiary in 1923, and we have used it … Continue reading → The post Prayer to Christ the King appeared first on Catholicism.org.

Saint John Damascene has the double honor of being the last but one of the fathers of the Eastern Church, and the greatest of her poets. It is surprising, however, how little that is authentic is known of his life. The account of him by John of Jerusalem, written some two hundred years after his…

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis wrote to the increasingly persecuted Catholics in Nicaragua today, telling them that their trust in Christ and faithfulness to the Church are the “two great beacons that illuminate your existence.” In a December 2 letter addressed … Continue reading → The post Pope Francis writes letter in support of persecuted Catholics…

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