by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne,
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“… ‘This synod has a specific and local objective: the evangelization of the Amazon. I fear that some Westerners are seizing this assembly to advance their plans,” Sarah told [an] Italian newspaper ….”
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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]
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Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“… one of His Disciples said … ‘Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.’ He said … ‘When you pray, say: Father, Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and Forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to
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“… he said to Jesus, ‘… who is my neighbor?’ Jesus replied, ‘A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. … a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion … approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. … lifted him up on his own animal,
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[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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