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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “The Ten #Commandments” – Catechism of the #Catholic Church/Vatican.va

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“… I am the LORD your #God,
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth;
you shall not bow down to them or serve them;
for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate me,
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those
who love me and keep my commandments. …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#PopeFrancis: #Christ came to help us fulfil the commandments’ substance” – CNA

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“… ‘He manifests the Law’s original purposes and He fulfils its authentic aspects – and He does all this by His preaching and even more by offering Himself on the Cross.’ …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#Vatican appoints pastoral envoy to #Medjugorje” – CNA

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“… #Medjugorje, a town in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to experience phenomena which they have claimed to be apparitions of the Blessed Virgin #Mary. …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#PopeFrancis at Angelus: meditation on fulfilment of the Law” – News.Va

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Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“… ‘In particular, in [this Sunday’s] Gospel, Jesus examines three aspects, three commandments: murder, adultery and oath-swearing. With regard to the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” He affirms that it is violated not only by actual homicide, but also by those behaviors, which offend the dignity of the human person, including insulting words (cf. Mt. 5:22). Certainly, these injurious words do not have the same gravity and sinfulness of killing, but they are placed on the same line, because they are the premises of the more serious acts and they reveal the same malevolence. Jesus invites us not to establish a schedule [It. graduatoria] of offenses, but to consider them all harmful, insofar as they are all moved by the intention to do harm to one’s neighbor. …'”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “#PopeFrancis: #Catholic educators must teach the grammar of dialogue” – News.Va

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“#PopeFrancis stressed the need for a culture of dialogue saying our world has become a global village in which each person belongs to humanity and shares in the hope for a better future for the whole family of nations. Unfortunately, he said, there are many forms of violence, poverty, exploitation, discrimination, marginalization and restrictions on freedom that create a culture of waste. ‘Within this context, Catholic educational institutions are called to be on the front line in practicing a grammar of dialogue” which, he said, is the basis of encounter and of the enhancement of cultural and religious diversity. …

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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 not commit adultery.” But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’ (Mt 5:27-28). And again: ‘It was said: “You shall not kill.” But I say to you: whoever is angry with his brother without reason will be answerable to the court” (cf. Mt 5:21f.)… And so on. None of these prescriptions imply either the contradiction nor the abolition of those that preceded them, but their fulfilment and development. As the Lord himself says: ‘Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven’ (Mt 5:20). …”

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#CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Feast Of Our Lady of #Lourdes – Homily Of His Holiness Saint John Paul II – 11 February 1979

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“… #Christ of our sufferings,

Christ of our sacrifices,

Christ of our Gethsemane,

Christ of our difficult transformations,

Christ of our faithful service to our neighbour,

Christ of our pilgrimages to Lourdes,

Christ of our community, today, in St Peter’s Basilica,

Christ our Redeemer,

Christ our Brother!

Amen.”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.12.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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Historic Bible

“… ‘You have heard that it was said,
You shall not commit adultery.
But I say to you,
everyone who looks at a woman with lust
has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin,
tear it out and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one of your members
than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.
And if your right hand causes you to sin,
cut it off and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one of your members
than to have your whole body go into Gehenna. …'”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.5.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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Historic Bible

“… ‘… You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
… Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.'”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: #Catholic #Mass Readings: Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 2.3.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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Historic Bible

“R. (1a) The Lord is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?”

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