VIDEO: #Catholic #TV #Mass: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.6.17 – Heart of the Nation (Wisconsin)
#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 5, 2017, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin [Click here for Mass Readings]
Month: February 2017
#CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “Catholic bishops see trouble in #Trump-backed LGBT executive order” – CNA
“… U.S. bishops are concerned by the #Trump administration’s decision to maintain a ‘troubling’ #Obama-era executive order that could demand federal contractors violate their religious beliefs on marriage and gender ideology. ‘In seeking to remedy instances of discrimination, it creates new forms of discrimination against people of faith. Keeping the executive order intact is not the answer,’ the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Feb. 1. …”
#CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: February 8: International Day of Prayer and Awareness against #HumanTrafficking – USCCB
“The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Union of Superiors General has designated February 8 as an annual day of prayer and awareness against human trafficking. February 8 is the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, who was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Sudan and Italy. Once Josephine was freed, she became a Canossian nun and dedicated her life to sharing her testament of deliverance from slavery and comforting the poor and suffering. She was declared a Saint in 2000. …”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.5.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“… ‘… You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
… Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.'”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 2.3.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“R. (1a) The Lord is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Thursday 2.2.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“When the days were completed for their purification
according to the law of Moses,
Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem
to present him to the Lord,
just as it is written in the law of the Lord,
Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,
and to offer the sacrifice of
a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,
in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. …”
VIDEO: #Catholic #TV #Mass: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 2.1.17 – Loretto Abbey, Toronto
#Catholic #TV #Mass for Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Feb. 1, 2017, from Loretto Abbey in Toronto [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 2.1.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“#Jesus … came to his native place, accompanied by His Disciples. … many who heard him were astonished. … ‘… Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary …?…’
… Jesus said … ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his native place ….”
… He was amazed at their lack of faith.”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Schools Week Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2017 – NCEA
“Since 1974, #NationalCatholicSchoolsWeek is the annual celebration of #Catholic #education in the United States. It starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2017 is January 29 – February 4. The theme for the National Catholic #Schools Week 2017 is ‘Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.’ Schools typically observe the annual celebration week with Masses, open houses and other activities for students, families, parishioners and community members. Through these events, schools focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to our church, our communities and our nation.”
FAITHLINK: “The Life Story of St. John Bosco (Biography of Don Bosco)” – Salesians
“God, it is said, sends the world saints when they are most needed-not men and women of ‘general holiness,’ but specialized experts who fit into the pattern of the times and are capable of giving God’s tone to their century. And so it was that on August 16, I8I5 when one era was closing in Europe with the exile of Napoleon, and the Industrial Revolution was clanging another open, ‘a man was sent by God whose name was John.’ He came to the scrubby stone cottage of Francis and Margaret Bosco on the hills of Becchi, at the foot of the Italian Alps. ‘A fine healthy baby,’ the neighbors all agreed, ‘fit for the soil, to take his father’s place on the old homestead.’ But no one went further than that in predicting the child’s future. …”