Author: Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh
#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Want to reach humanity? Be open to #God’s grace, #PopeFrancis says” – CNA
“The #Christian mission today means facing new challenges with simplicity, holiness, and openness to God, #PopeFrancis told an audience with the Marian Fathers on Saturday.”
» Read more#CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “#PopeFrancis: the lack of brotherhood leads to war and bloodshed”
“#PopeFrancis …. spoke of the importance of the bond of brotherhood and of how easy it is for petty jealousies and envy to damage that bond and set off a process that can lead to the destruction of families and peoples.”
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.19.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“‘… You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father …. be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.””
» Read more#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “The Cycle of Hatred and Retribution Ends with Me – A Homily for the 7th Sunday of the Year” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope
“In today’s #Gospel the Lord is teaching us, by His grace, to break the cycle of hatred and retribution. When someone harms me I may well become angry, and in my anger seek to get back at the offender. If I do that, though, then Satan has earned a second victory and brought the anger and retribution to a higher
» Read moreVIDEO: #Catholic #TV #Mass: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.19.17 – Basilica of the Sacred Heart, University of #NotreDame
#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 19, 2017, from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of #NotreDame [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes.
» Read more#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#Holy as #God: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time” – St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology/Scott Hahn
“… We are called to the #Holiness of #God. That is the extraordinary claim made in both the First Reading and #Gospel this Sunday. Yet how is it possible that we can be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect? #Jesus explains that we must be imitators of God as his beloved children (Eph. 5:1–2). …”
» Read more#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Homily, Seventh Sunday of the Year, Feb. 23, 2014” – Fr. Boniface, St. Anselm’s Abbey
“… As a result of the law of love, #Jesus asks his #disciples not to return evil for evil but to return evil with good. When you think about it, if we return evil for evil, we are drawn into a vicious snare that intensifies and multiplies evil. The #Christian is to be the messenger of #God and to bring
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop – Tuesday 2.14.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, … He regretted that he had made man on the earth, and His Heart was grieved. So the LORD said: ‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds
» Read moreCATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Feast of Saint Valentine” – FishEaters
“St. Valentine (Valentino) was a Roman priest who performed #marriages in spite of Claudius II’s law against such (Claudius believed that marriage was distracting to his soldiers, so outlawed it to them for a time). Fr. Valentine was martyred in A.D. 270 on the Flammian way, and at the site of his martyrdom, Julius I built a popular basilica. Other
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