by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“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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#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston [Click here for Mass Readings]
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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 #TV #Mass for Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Feb. 13, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston [Click here for Mass Readings]
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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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“… Figari’s crime of abuse of office cannot be prosecuted because of a statute of limitations, however, and he cannot be prosecuted for his abuse of minors under canon 1395 because he is a layman, and not a cleric – the only persons covered by that canon. However, his sexual abuse of minors means he is to be dismissed from
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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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“… 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
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