by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“In today’s #Gospel the Lord is teaching us, by His grace, to break the cycle of hatred and retribution. When someone harms me I may well become angry, and in my anger seek to get back at the offender. If I do that, though, then Satan has earned a second victory and brought the anger and retribution to a higher
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“… As a result of the law of love, #Jesus asks his #disciples not to return evil for evil but to return evil with good. When you think about it, if we return evil for evil, we are drawn into a vicious snare that intensifies and multiplies evil. The #Christian is to be the messenger of #God and to bring
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“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, … He regretted that he had made man on the earth, and His Heart was grieved. So the LORD said: ‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds
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“St. Valentine (Valentino) was a Roman priest who performed #marriages in spite of Claudius II’s law against such (Claudius believed that marriage was distracting to his soldiers, so outlawed it to them for a time). Fr. Valentine was martyred in A.D. 270 on the Flammian way, and at the site of his martyrdom, Julius I built a popular basilica. Other
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“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, … He regretted that he had made man on the earth, and His Heart was grieved. So the LORD said: ‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds
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“The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. …”
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“The Vatican has issued an updated version of their charter for healthcare workers, removing question marks from modern ethical concerns such as euthanasia and the creation of human-animal chimeras by offering a clear set of guidelines. …”
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“The #Gospel for Sunday’s Mass is from the #SermonontheMount (Matthew 5-7), specifically 5:17-37. In a way the Lord is drawing a picture for us of the transformed human person. He is presenting a kind of slide show of what sanctity really is. In understanding this rather lengthy text we do well to reflect on it in three parts. …”
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“… In their concern and care for each other and for their families, husbands and wives show the world, in a particular way, how to live according to the Great Commandment, with all one’s heart, mind and strength. It requires of them a great deal of realism and a large dose of forgiveness. It brings joy, often tempered by sorrows.
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