by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic TV Mass for Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“Lord, send out Your Spirit, and Renew the face of the earth.”
“… the heart of all Catholics knows … there is no doubt how much reverence is due to this day, which the Holy Spirit has Consecrated with the matchless wonder of His Gift. In fact, this is the tenth day since the day in which the Lord rose to the Heights of Heaven to take His Seat on the Right Hand of the Father and the fiftieth day since His Resurrection. … * * * How fast the discourse of wisdom is, and where God is the Teacher how quickly one learns what is taught! … the words of each nation become common in the mouth of the Church. Since that day showers of charisms and streams of Blessings have watered every desert and every wilderness (cf. Is 35:6), for in order to renew the face of the earth (cf. Ps 103:30), ‘God’s Spirit hovered over the waters’ (Gen 1:2) … to dispel the old darkness flashes of a new light appeared … from the splendor of sparking tongues sprang the ardent Word of the Lord and His Fiery Destiny (cf. Ps 18:9) … efficacy to enlighten and strength to burn … to form minds and conquer sin. …”
Catholic TV Mass for Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter (Mass in the Morning), May 19, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“The just will gaze on Your Face, O Lord.”
Catholic TV Mass for the Ascension of the Lord, May 13, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“‘Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.'”
“… The source of all love, of course, is Divine Love, Trinitarian Love. God Who is Love could not contain that love within the Trinitarian Unity. It burst forth into a creation, every part of which God pronounced very good. God even made creatures in his own image and likeness. The whole of creation is meant to mirror and give glory to all the perfections in the creator: unity, beauty, truth, goodness, holiness, power and majesty. …”
“In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude. …”