by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from Our Lady of Loretto Abbey in Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass Readings and Homily for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“#Mary set out
and traveled to the hill country in haste
to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah
and greeted #Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the #HolySpirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said,
‘Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the Fruit of your Womb.
And how does this happen to me,
that the Mother of my Lord should come to me? …”
#Catholic #TV #Mass for Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, May 30, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
“During the month of #May, we celebrate many Catholic traditions and customs. May processions, the recitation of the rosary, Marian sodality celebrations and seeking the intercession of #Mary on Mother’s Day are all part of parish life. Also during May, we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin (May 31). In your family, you may even plant a Mary garden. The tradition of linking Mary and the month of May dates back to medieval times.
Throughout Christian history, devotion to Mary represents and manifests the Christian recognition of the intimacy of the bond between Mary and her son Jesus and her unique and determining role in the unfolding of God’s plan. We Catholics do not worship Mary, but we truly venerate her because she is Mother of Jesus, the Mother of God, the Mother of the Church and our mother. …”
Catholic TV Mass Readings and Homily for Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, May 30, 2017, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“… If #God requests man’s service it is so that he who is good and merciful might grant his blessings to those who persevere in his service. For, if God has no need of anything, yet man has need of communion with God. The glory of man is to persevere in the service of God. That is why our Savior said to his disciples: “It was not you who chose me but I who chose you” (Jn 15,16). Thus he showed that it was not they who glorified him by following him but that, since they had followed the Son of God, they were glorified by him. ‘Father, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory’ (Jn 17,24).”
#Catholic #TV #Mass for Tuesday of the Seventh Week Easter, May 30, 2017, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said, ‘… Now this is Eternal Life,
that they should know You, the only True God,
and the One whom You sent, Jesus Christ.
I Glorified You on earth
by accomplishing the Work that You gave Me to do.
Now glorify Me, Father, with You,
with the Glory that I had with You before the World began.
‘I revealed Your Name to those whom You gave Me out of the world.
They belonged to You, and You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your Word.
Now they know that everything You gave Me is from You,
because the Words You gave to Me I have given to them ….'”