by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 19, 2017, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes.
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“Americans tend to reduce #Jesus’ preaching in the #Gospels to a series of thin moral maxims. Be nice and super kind. The risk of many readings of the Sermon on the Mount is that they encourage this kind of reduction, emphasizing the primacy of our behavior above #God’s activity. But this reduction is to misread Jesus’ remarkable teaching: We love
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#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 19, 2017, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“‘Bear with one another lovingly and make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force.’ (cf. Eph 4:2f.) It is not possible to maintain unity or peace if the brothers don’t make every effort to remain tolerant of one another and to keep the bond of harmony, which comes
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“‘… You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father …. be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.””
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“In today’s #Gospel the Lord is teaching us, by His grace, to break the cycle of hatred and retribution. When someone harms me I may well become angry, and in my anger seek to get back at the offender. If I do that, though, then Satan has earned a second victory and brought the anger and retribution to a higher
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#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 19, 2017, from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of #NotreDame [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes.
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“… As a result of the law of love, #Jesus asks his #disciples not to return evil for evil but to return evil with good. When you think about it, if we return evil for evil, we are drawn into a vicious snare that intensifies and multiplies evil. The #Christian is to be the messenger of #God and to bring
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“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, … He regretted that he had made man on the earth, and His Heart was grieved. So the LORD said: ‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds
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