Month: September 2018
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Mother Teresa of Calcutta Biography” – Vatican.va
“… The whole of Mother Teresa’s life and labour bore witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and dignity of every human person, the value of little things done faithfully and with love, and the surpassing worth of friendship with God. But there was another heroic side of this great woman that was revealed only after her death. Hidden from all eyes, hidden even from those closest to her, was her interior life marked by an experience of a deep, painful and abiding feeling of being separated from God, even rejected by Him, along with an ever-increasing longing for His love. She called her inner experience, ‘the darkness.’ The ‘painful night’ of her soul, which began around the time she started her work for the poor and continued to the end of her life, led Mother Teresa to an ever more profound union with God. Through the darkness she mystically participated in the thirst of Jesus, in His painful and burning longing for love, and she shared in the interior desolation of the poor. …”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta” – Vatican.va
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “HOLY MASS AND CANONIZATION OF BLESSED MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA” – Vatican.va
“… Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defence of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded. She was committed to defending life, ceaselessly proclaiming that “the unborn are the weakest, the smallest, the most vulnerable”. She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity; she made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime – the crimes! – of poverty they created. For Mother Teresa, mercy was the “salt” which gave flavour to her work, it was the ‘light’ which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering. …”
[AD] Saint Mother Teresa: “A Simple Path”
“Known around the globe for her indefatigable work on behalf of the poor, the sick, and the dying, Saint Mother Teresa has devoted her life to giving hope to the hopeless in more than one hundred and twenty countries. She inspires us all to find a way to translate our spiritual beliefs into action in the world. How has one woman accomplished so much? And what are the guiding principles that have enabled this humble nun to so profoundly effect the lives of millions? …”
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time 9.5.18 – Catholic TV (Archdiocese of Boston)
Catholic TV Mass for Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 5, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time 9.5.18 – Loretto Abbey (Archdiocese of Toronto)
Catholic TV Mass for Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 5, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time 9.5.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever … [Jesus] stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. … all who had people sick with various diseases
brought them to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. And demons also came out from many …. [Jesus] said … ‘… I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.’ … “
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Tuesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time 9.4.18 – Catholic TV (Archdiocese of Boston)
Catholic TV Mass for Tuesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 4, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Tuesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time 9.4.18 – Loretto Abbey (Archdiocese of Toronto)
Catholic TV Mass for Tuesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 4, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
[featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]