CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter 5.4.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Jesus said … * * * I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven; whoever eats this Bread will live forever; and the

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles, Wednesday 5.3.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Jesus said to Thomas, ‘I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you know Me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.’ … The Words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own.

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Memorial of Saint Athanasius, Tuesday 5.2.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“… #Jesus said to them, ‘I AM the Bread of Life; whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION REDEMPTORIS CUSTOS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II ON THE PERSON AND MISSION OF SAINT JOSEPH IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND OF THE CHURCH” – Saint John Paul II/ VaticanVa

Saint Pope John Paul II file photo, adapted from image at archives.gov

“1. ‘Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took his wife’ (cf. Mt 1 :24). Inspired by the Gospel, the Fathers of the Church from the earliest centuries stressed that just as St. Joseph took loving care of Mary and gladly dedicated himself to Jesus Christ’s upbringing,(1) he likewise watches over and protects Christ’s Mystical Body,

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Decree, Regarding the Mention of the Divine Name of Saint Joseph in the Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV” – CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS/ VaticanVa

File Photo of Statue of Saint Joseph Holding the Infant Jesus

“Exercising his paternal care over Jesus, Saint Joseph of Nazareth, set over the Lord’s family, marvelously fulfilled the office he received by grace. Adhering firmly to the mystery of God’s design of salvation in its very beginnings, he stands as an exemplary model of the kindness and humility that the Christian faith raises to a great destiny, and demonstrates the

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “QUAMQUAM PLURIES, ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH” – VaticanVa

View of St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican from River

“… Now, Venerable Brethren, you know the times in which we live; they are scarcely less deplorable for the Christian religion than the worst days, which in time past were most full of misery to the Church. We see faith, the root of all the Christian virtues, lessening in many souls; we see charity growing cold; the young generation daily

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Monday of the Third Week of Easter 5.1.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Stephen, filled with Grace and Power, was working great wonders and signs among the people. Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen, but they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. … They stirred up the people, the elders,

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Mass on the Move – A Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope 4.29.17

Image of Town Associated with Historical Emmaus, adapted from image at loc.gov attributed to American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.,

“In today’s Gospel we encounter two discouraged and broken men making their way to Emmaus. The text describes them as ‘downcast.’ …. They are also moving in the wrong direction, West, away from Jerusalem, away form the resurrection. They have their backs to the Lord, rising in the East. The men cannot see or understand God’s Plan. They cannot ‘see’

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Emmaus and Us: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Third Sunday of Easter” – St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology 4.24.17

Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.

“How does #Jesus make himself known at #Emmaus? First, He interprets ‘all the Scriptures’ as referring to Him. In today’s First Reading and Epistle, Peter also opens the Scriptures to proclaim the meaning of Christ’s death according to the Father’s ‘set plan’ — foreknown before the foundation of the world. … In every Eucharist, we reenact that Easter Sunday at

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “PERFECT TIMING” – Presentation Ministries (Cincinnati)

Last Supper by Duccio, adapted from image at openi.nlm.nih.gov

“… The early Church realized that Jesus’ timing of the first two Masses (Eucharists) was very significant. Led by the Spirit (Jn 16:13), they devoted themselves to the breaking of the bread, that is, the Mass (Acts 2:42). Wherever the Church has emphasized devotion to the Mass throughout its history, it has seen the love, power, and glory of God.

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