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Over the weekend, I emailed a Syrian lady I know to assure her that her family back in Syria are in my prayers. She lives in the United States now, but keeps close contact with family and friends in Syria. … Continue reading → The post From A Syrian Christian Friend, on Current Events appeared…
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He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about Christ’s promise of resurrection. As a learned…
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Reading 1 Gn 3:9-15, 20 After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then he asked, “Who told you that you…
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The Immaculate Conception is not the virgin birth. I want to make that abundantly clear at the beginning, since many people get confused on that point. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception does not say that Jesus’ conception was “immaculate” because it didn’t involve sex, which is another common misconception I encounter. (All of us…
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On December 9, 1531, a Mexican Chichimec peasant named Juan Diego received his first of four miraculous apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many of us are familiar with the story: the Blessed Mother, under the title of “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” miraculously left her image on his tilma, a tilma that has not disintegrated in…
ROME (CNS) — With the city of Rome presenting a gauntlet of major roadworks and construction projects ahead of the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis used the disruptions as an opportunity to encourage people to do some spiritual renovation before the jubilee. On a cloudy afternoon with the threat of rain Dec….
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Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised in line with the Aztec pagan religion,…
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Reading I Bar 5:1-9 Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery; put on the splendor of glory from God forever: wrapped in the cloak of justice from God, bear on your head the mitre that displays the glory of the eternal name. For God will show all the earth your…
Story of the Immaculate Conception: The Immaculate Conception, celebrated on December 8th, honors the unique grace given to Mary, the Mother of God, who was conceived without original sin. This privilege was granted by God in anticipation of her role as the Mother of Jesus Christ, ensuring she would be a pure and worthy vessel…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the center of one’s life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations. “To walk in the path…
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