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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Message of the Holy Father Francis for Lent 2018 Released; [‘Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold’ (Mt 24: 12)]” – VaticanVa 11.1.17

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“Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt 24: 12) … the Pasch of the Lord draws near! In our preparation for Easter, God in His Providence offers us each year the season of Lent as a ‘Sacramental Sign of our Conversion’ … to help the entire Church experience this time of grace anew,

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CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “[Almsgiving, Lent, the Final Judgment] – John Paul II General Audience, Wednesday, March 28, 1979” – VaticanVa

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“Only with a total attitude — in his relationship with God … himself and … his neighbor — does man reach conversion and remain in the state of conversion. ‘Alms’ … has a meaning … decisive for this conversion. … recall the image of the Last Judgment that Christ gave us: ‘… I was hungry and you gave Me food.

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’] – Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543), Monk and Bishop, Sermon 25” – DailyGospel

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“If we consider it well, my brethren, the fact that Christ is hungry in those who are poor has something to say to us… Look: on one side a tiny coin and on the other, the Kingdom. What is the comparison? You give a small coin to a poor man and receive the Kingdom from Christ; you give a scrap

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “The Law Rooted in Our Hearts” – DailyGospel/ Saint Irenaeus of Lyons/ Against the Heresies

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“The Law contains natural prescriptions that already administer justice, and even before the gift of the Law to Moses, people observed these prescriptions and were justified by their faith and were pleasing to God. The Lord has not abolished those prescriptions but developed and fulfilled them as the following words testify: ‘You have heard that it was said: “You shall

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FAITHWATCH DailyGospel.org/ Saint Gregory Nazianzen Gospel commentary: “When you give a banquet, invite the poor”

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Let us keep an eye on our neighbor’s well-being, whether in good health or struck by sickness, with as much concern as we do our own. For ‘we are all one in the Lord’ (Rom 12:5) …. What the members of a body are for each other, every one of us is for each of the others. So we shouldn’t

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