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Adapted from Sr. Marie Gabrielle’s talk, “A Thousand Times Happy” Fear sabotages happiness as few other things can. Happiness is a contentment that we experience in the contemplation of the good, the true, the beautiful. That is Aristotle’s definition that … Continue reading → The post The Fear of Difficulties appeared first on Catholicism.org.
St. Andrew, also known as Andrew the Apostle, was a Christian Apostle and the older brother to St. Peter. According to the New Testament, Andrew was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee during the early first century. Much like his younger brother, Simon Peter, Andrew was also a fisherman. Andrew’s…
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Credo vitam aeternam. We say it at Mass, Baptisms, marriages, and in daily prayer. Yet if someone were to ask you right now—“Do you believe you will live forever?”—how would you respond? If you truly believe what you profess, you should answer with an unambivalent “Yes!” But for the “hmm…not sure” within us, we thankfully…
Though it is a clear break between liturgical years and liturgical seasons as one crosses from the Feast of Christ the King to the beginning of Advent, I propose that a strong continuity between the two events can be found in the Catholic Old Testament, in 1 and 2 Maccabees. I describe these two books…
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Reading 1 RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2 I, John, saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which…
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St. Saturninus Bishop of Toulouse and Martyr November 29 A.D. 257 St. Saturninus went from Rome by the direction of pope Fabian, about the year 245, to preach the faith in Gaul, where St. Trophimus, the first bishop of Arles, had some time before gathered a plentiful harvest. In the year 250, when Decius and…
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Readings for the Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time-Thanksgiving Readings for the Thanksgiving Day Reading 1 RV 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9A I, John, saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor. He cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the…
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Today American Catholics will gather with family and friends to enjoy a festal feast of thanksgiving for all God has given to us. On a day set aside nationally to offer thanksgiving, where ultimately should Catholics begin this celebration? The answer is at Mass. The word eucharist means thanksgiving. The Mass is the place we…
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Early on in school, we learn to equate Thanksgiving with a feast between Pilgrims and Native Americans, but there is additional background surrounding this holiday that isn’t typically shared. Did you know there is a “Mother of Thanksgiving,” and that its recognition can be traced back to the founding fathers of the United States? Thanksgiving…
WASHINGTON – News of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was received with “profound hope” by Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. “It is in a spirit of profound hope that I welcome news…
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