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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “The Cycle of Hatred and Retribution Ends with Me – A Homily for the 7th Sunday of the Year” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope

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“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 level. Most likely, the one who originally harmed me will then take exception to my retribution and try to inflict more harm on me. And so the cycle continues and escalates. … Break the cycle. The Lord has dispatched us onto the field to turn the game around and break this cycle of retribution and hatred. The ‘play’ He wants us to execute is the ‘it ends with me’ play. …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Homily, Seventh Sunday of the Year, Feb. 23, 2014” – Fr. Boniface, St. Anselm’s Abbey

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“… 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 goodness, wholeness, and #salvation into all areas of life. ‘Be holy as I am holy, says the Lord.’ The #Holiness of #God overcomes and transforms all that it touches. Witness the #Cross of Christ, the #forgiveness of Christ which in its very abasement was transformed by Love and so routed the forces of Satan. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop – Tuesday 2.14.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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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 of the air,
for I am sorry that I made them.”
But #Noah found favor with the LORD.

… the LORD said to Noah:
‘Go into the ark, you and all your household,
for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Feast of Saint Valentine” – FishEaters

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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 than this, little is known. Because two other St. Valentines share this Feast day (“Valentine” was an extremely common name for Christians as it has the same root as the word “valor”), often their stories are confused, but it is the Roman priest-martyr whom we honor during the liturgy. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 2.13.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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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 of the air,
for I am sorry that I made them.”
But Noah found favor with the LORD.

… the LORD said to Noah:
‘Go into the ark, you and all your household,
for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 2.13.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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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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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Vatican unveils updated healthcare charter as new ethical questions arise” – CNA

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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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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “A Slide Show of Sanctity – A Homily for the 6th Sunday of the Year” – Archdiocese of Washington/Msgr. Charles Pope

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“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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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#Marriage can transform both the culture and the world — if we do it right Marriage is a full-time vocation” – OSV Newsweekly/Cardinal Francis George

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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. It transforms people and the entire world. Its mission is love.”

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