by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Meeting with members of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, Pope Leo IV urged the Faithful to humble ourselves like the penitent tax collector in the Gospel, and to seek unity within Holy Mother Church, even amidst any tensions that might occur. Vatican News highlighted the Pope’s emphasis on the Church as a Sign of the unity between God and Humanity,
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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 Easter Sunday, the antiphon is “The Lord is Risen, Alleluia.”] [Prior to the Psalm is an introductory phrase taken from Psalm 51 and
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“Bishop Michael Barber, S.J., of the Diocese of Oakland, California, has said he would sooner accept arrest and prison than comply with a state law that would force priests to violate the seal of confession. … ‘I will go to jail before I will obey this attack on our religious freedom’ …. ‘Even if this bill passes, no priest may
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“… ‘In my experience – so far I have performed 2,300 rites of exorcism – I can say that the invocation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary often provokes significant reactions in the person being exorcized,’ …”
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From the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes. [featured image is file photo]
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Catholic televised Mass for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 13, 2019, 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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“… Jesus said … ‘The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.’ … ‘just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in
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Catholic TV Signed Mass for Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, the Memorial of Saint Pope John Paul II, Oct. 22, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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Catholic televised Mass for Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 14, 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]
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