by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of
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“#Jesus … came to his native place, accompanied by His Disciples. … many who heard him were astonished. … ‘… Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary …?…’ … Jesus said … ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his native place ….” … He was amazed at their lack of faith.”
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“Since 1974, #NationalCatholicSchoolsWeek is the annual celebration of #Catholic #education in the United States. It starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2017 is January 29 – February 4. The theme for the National Catholic #Schools Week 2017 is ‘Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.’ Schools typically observe the annual celebration week with
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“God, it is said, sends the world saints when they are most needed-not men and women of ‘general holiness,’ but specialized experts who fit into the pattern of the times and are capable of giving God’s tone to their century. And so it was that on August 16, I8I5 when one era was closing in Europe with the exile of
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“… a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. … heard about #Jesus and came up behind Him in the crowd and touched His cloak. … She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Jesus … said to her, ‘Daughter, your Faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.’ …. He
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“Was it an angel or was it a dog? The life of Don Bosco furnishes us with a remarkable and interesting story of what appears to many an angelic intervention in saving the life of this servant of God from the fierce attacks of the Waldensian heretics, who made several attempts to assassinate him. …”
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“Jesus and His Disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. … a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met Him. … the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned…. the
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“… In the end, Jesus does not merely speak the Beatitudes. He lives the Beatitudes. He is the Beatitudes. Looking at Him you will see what it means to be poor in spirit, gentle and merciful, to mourn, to care for what is right, to be pure in heart, to make peace, to be persecuted. This is why He has
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“… The #Beatitudes are at the heart of #Jesus’ preaching. They take up the promises made to the chosen people since Abraham. The Beatitudes fulfill the promises by ordering them no longer merely to the possession of a territory, but to the Kingdom of #heaven: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are
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“… ‘You can walk the path of love – the Pope concluded – only if you have an open heart’ following the example of Our Lady, the prime model of the poor in spirit, and totally docile to the will of the Lord.”
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