by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
[The Divine Office, or Liturgy of the Hours, begins the Liturgical Day with “A Call to Praise God” in the form of the Invitatory Psalm, usually Psalm 95, in stanzas, or strophes, interspersed with an antiphon. For Sundays and weekdays during Lent, from Ash Wednesday to the Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent, the antiphon is “Come, let us
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“Raising His Eyes toward His Disciples Jesus said: ‘Blessed are you who are poor … the Kingdom of God is yours. … Blessed are you … now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice
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“… Biernat said … he was assaulted by Fr. Art Smith, a diocesan priest whom Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo asked to be kept in ministry in 2015 in a letter to Vatican officials, despite the bishop admitting in that same letter that Smith had groomed a young boy, had been accused of inappropriate touching of at least four young
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“‘… Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My Disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and … see if there is enough for its completion? …. [A]nyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be My Disciple.’”
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“Jesus came to Nazareth … and went … into the synagogue … and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty
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“The Diocese of Jackson in Mississippi said it did not pressure a victim of clerical sexual abuse to accept settlement offers after he was abused by a Franciscan brother in the late 1990s. Earlier this year, that victim and his cousin were paid $15,000 each by a Wisconsin-based Franciscan province — a lower amount than typical settlements— to settle their
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From Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo from another time and location] [featured image is file photo from another time and place]
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“Pope Francis announced Sunday he will create 13 new cardinals …. Among them are 10 who are elegible to vote in a future conclave. … [c]oming from North America, Central America, Africa, Europe, and Asia ….”
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From the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“‘… every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’ …”
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