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Readings for the Vigil Mass Readings for the Mass during the Night Readings for the Mass at Dawn Readings for the Mass during the Day Vigil Mass Mass during the Night Mass at Dawn Mass during the Day – – – Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical…
You were sitting on the hillside looking at the starry night sky when you realized how cold you were. Your fingers were numb and you couldn’t seem to warm them. But even more than the external cold, there was an … Continue reading → The post Her Babe Ablaze appeared first on Catholicism.org.
Mike Church hosted our Sisters yesterday for a radio Christmas Concert that was a fundraiser for their convent project. The concert is embedded below (video starting more than five minutes in, just before the action starts). The introductory text below … Continue reading → The post Our Sisters’ Christmas Concert on Radio appeared first on…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A key part of a jubilee in the Bible was releasing prisoners, and Catholics today can join a global campaign to press for the release of thousands of people imprisoned in poverty because of their nations’ foreign debt, said an official of Caritas Internationalis. Victor Genina Cervantes, director of integral human…
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There definitely was a Roman martyr named Eugenia but the rest of her story is a romantic fictitious legend. According to it she was the daughter of Duke Philip of Alexandria, governor of Egypt during the reign of Emporer Valerian. She fled her father’s house dressed in men’s clothing and was baptized by Helenus, bishop…
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When the angels went away from them to heaven, the shepherds . . . went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. That the first visitors to come pay homage to the infant King were shepherds is not a coincidence, nor is it an insignificant detail. Clearly, Scripture…
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Reading I 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 When King David was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from his enemies on every side, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God dwells in a tent!” Nathan answered…
Perhaps none of us dared to put “hope” on our Christmas list this year. But maybe we should have. On December 24th, Pope Francis will begin the 25th ordinary Jubilee by opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The theme for this Holy Year is Pilgrims of Hope. Some of us might…
Brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord always. Is it possible to have constant joy amid the trials, temptations, disappointments, and challenges of this present life? St. Paul answers a resounding Yes when he proclaimed, “Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). He attests that we can indeed rejoice always only…
Quotes Worth Contemplating for the Feast of Sts. Adam and Eve (Christmas Eve) According to Dom Mary Eugene Boylan, self-sufficiency is the death of love: [T]he waywardness of weakness and the faults of frailty can be forgiven by love precisely … Continue reading → The post Self-Sufficiency as the Death of Love: A Meditation on…
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