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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle, Wednesday 2.22.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“… He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’
Simon Peter said in reply,
‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’
Jesus said to him in reply, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.
And so I say to you, you are Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. …'”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time 2.21.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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… He sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
‘If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.’ …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#Love and #mercy in #politics”

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“… As Pope Francis has reminded us, another name for love is mercy. The saying “hate the sin but love the sinner,” from a letter by St. Augustine, is at the core of how Jesus transformed sinners by loving them. …”

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#CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “New Mexico school a beacon of hope, faith for Native American youth” – CNS/Catholic Philly

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“The presence of Catholic schools is especially needed in some of the poorest areas of the country. By providing a quality education, the church helps young people in poor communities to realize their potential.”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time 2.20.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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… Jesus said to him,
“‘… Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
… Jesus … rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,
‘Mute and deaf spirit, I command you:
come out of him and never enter him again!’
… He said to them, ‘This kind can only come out through prayer.'”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#PopeFrancis: Preach #Gospel with courage, prayer, and humility” – NewsVa

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“Courage prayer, and humility: these are the traits that distinguish the great ‘heralds’ who have helped the Church to grow in the world, who have contributed to its missionary character. …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#God loves first Giving in to the Gospel of nonviolence means living in holiness by doing others no harm in word or deed” – OSV Newsweekly: Opening the Word/ Timothy P. O’Malley

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“Americans tend to reduce #Jesus’ preaching in the #Gospels to a series of thin moral maxims. Be nice and super kind. The risk of many readings of the Sermon on the Mount is that they encourage this kind of reduction, emphasizing the primacy of our behavior above #God’s activity. But this reduction is to misread Jesus’ remarkable teaching: We love one another because God first loved us.”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “‘What I say to you is: offer no resistance to injury’ – On the Virtue of Patience” – Saint Cyprian, DailyGospel

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“‘Bear with one another lovingly and make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force.’ (cf. Eph 4:2f.) It is not possible to maintain unity or peace if the brothers don’t make every effort to remain tolerant of one another and to keep the bond of harmony, which comes from patience…

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.19.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“‘… You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father …. be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.””

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