Category: Catholic Faith

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Decree, Regarding the Mention of the Divine Name of Saint Joseph in the Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV” – CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS/ VaticanVa

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“Exercising his paternal care over Jesus, Saint Joseph of Nazareth, set over the Lord’s family, marvelously fulfilled the office he received by grace. Adhering firmly to the mystery of God’s design of salvation in its very beginnings, he stands as an exemplary model of the kindness and humility that the Christian faith raises to a great destiny, and demonstrates the

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “QUAMQUAM PLURIES, ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH” – VaticanVa

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View of St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican from River

“… Now, Venerable Brethren, you know the times in which we live; they are scarcely less deplorable for the Christian religion than the worst days, which in time past were most full of misery to the Church. We see faith, the root of all the Christian virtues, lessening in many souls; we see charity growing cold; the young generation daily

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CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: Catholic TV Mass for Monday of the Third Week of Easter 5.1.17 – Our Lady of Loretto Abbey (Toronto)

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Priest Lifting Large Host

#Catholic #TV #Mass for Monday of the Third Week of Easter, May 1, 2017, from Our Lady of Loretto Abbey in Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Monday of the Third Week of Easter 5.1.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Stephen, filled with Grace and Power, was working great wonders and signs among the people. Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen, but they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. … They stirred up the people, the elders,

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Mass on the Move – A Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope 4.29.17

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“In today’s Gospel we encounter two discouraged and broken men making their way to Emmaus. The text describes them as ‘downcast.’ …. They are also moving in the wrong direction, West, away from Jerusalem, away form the resurrection. They have their backs to the Lord, rising in the East. The men cannot see or understand God’s Plan. They cannot ‘see’

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Emmaus and Us: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Third Sunday of Easter” – St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology 4.24.17

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Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.

“How does #Jesus make himself known at #Emmaus? First, He interprets ‘all the Scriptures’ as referring to Him. In today’s First Reading and Epistle, Peter also opens the Scriptures to proclaim the meaning of Christ’s death according to the Father’s ‘set plan’ — foreknown before the foundation of the world. … In every Eucharist, we reenact that Easter Sunday at

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “PERFECT TIMING” – Presentation Ministries (Cincinnati)

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Last Supper by Duccio, adapted from image at openi.nlm.nih.gov

“… The early Church realized that Jesus’ timing of the first two Masses (Eucharists) was very significant. Led by the Spirit (Jn 16:13), they devoted themselves to the breaking of the bread, that is, the Mass (Acts 2:42). Wherever the Church has emphasized devotion to the Mass throughout its history, it has seen the love, power, and glory of God.

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Today’s Meditation” – The Word Among Us

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“Their eyes were opened and they recognized him. … Don’t you wish you could have been there when Cleopas and his friend were walking to Emmaus? Wouldn’t it have been exciting to hear Jesus interpreting the Scriptures and to see the look in their eyes when they recognized him in the breaking of the bread? Well, in a sense, we

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Homily 23 [Re: Jesus on Road to Emmaus]; PL76, 1182” – Saint Gregory the Great/ DailyGospel

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Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.

“There were two Disciples on a journey together. They did not believe and yet they were speaking about the Lord. Suddenly He Himself appeared but in a form they were unable to …. They invited Him to share their company, as one does with a traveler … So they prepared the table, set the meal, and the God whom they

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