by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 9, 2018, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 9, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [can take a moment to load] [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 9, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
“Thus says the LORD: Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, He comes with vindication; with Divine Recompense He comes to Save you. …”
“… ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this Child has been Conceived in her. She will bear a Son and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.’ All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means ‘God is with us.'”
Catholic TV Mass for Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 6, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“… He said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.’ … Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.’ When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him.”
“… The whole of Mother Teresa’s life and labour bore witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and dignity of every human person, the value of little things done faithfully and with love, and the surpassing worth of friendship with God. But there was another heroic side of this great woman that was revealed only after her death. Hidden from all eyes, hidden even from those closest to her, was her interior life marked by an experience of a deep, painful and abiding feeling of being separated from God, even rejected by Him, along with an ever-increasing longing for His love. She called her inner experience, ‘the darkness.’ The ‘painful night’ of her soul, which began around the time she started her work for the poor and continued to the end of her life, led Mother Teresa to an ever more profound union with God. Through the darkness she mystically participated in the thirst of Jesus, in His painful and burning longing for love, and she shared in the interior desolation of the poor. …”
“… October 19, 2003 … Biography … Homily of John Paul II … Angelus of John Paul II …”
“… Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defence of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded. She was committed to defending life, ceaselessly proclaiming that “the unborn are the weakest, the smallest, the most vulnerable”. She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity; she made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime – the crimes! – of poverty they created. For Mother Teresa, mercy was the “salt” which gave flavour to her work, it was the ‘light’ which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering. …”