Author: Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh

“‘… No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.’”

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]

“… When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.’ * * * … that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins’ – He then said to the paralytic, ‘Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.’ He rose and went home. When the crowds

“… Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ … He said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see My Hands, and bring your hand and put it into My Side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.’ Thomas answered … ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to

“… The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar; at the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven. He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain, together with the inhabitants of the cities and the produce of the soil. … Early the next morning