by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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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 the Common of Pastors, such as on the Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier on Dec. 3, the antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship
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“… The centurion said in reply, ‘Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed. … Jesus … said … ‘Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east and the
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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. From the First Sunday of Advent until December 16, the standard antiphon is “Come, Let Us Worship the Lord, the King Who Is to
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“For those of you who will be lighting an Advent ‘wreath’ this weekend, especially with tapers… remember to start with the purple candle ‘opposite’ the pink one in order for the progression to the pink one for the third week to look accurate. This also makes the candles burn down in successive order, which makes the visual impact of the
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“Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings—between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. …”
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Catholic TV Mass for the First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] Your browser does not support iframes. [featured image is file photo]
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“As we look toward Christmas and ponder the Incarnation, we ought to remember that so profound was truth of the incarnation that the early Church fell to her knees at these words: ‘and He was incarnate by the Holy Spirit, from the virgin Mary, and became man.’ This act of falling to one’s knees at these words is still practiced
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Catholic TV Mass for the First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2, 2018, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo from another time and location]
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