by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… ‘While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly
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Pope Benedict XVI visited Ground Zero in New York City on April 22, 2008, the site of the terrorist attacks in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Videos of his visit follow below, as well as a transcript of the prayer he offered. The videos include an excerpt featuring his prayer of Blessing as well as a longer video.
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Catholic Sunday TV Mass for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 11, 2016, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [featured image is file photo]
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Mother Teresa was ‘a generous dispenser of Divine Mercy’ among the ‘abandoned and discarded”. … Pope Francis thus described Mother Teresa during his homily on Sunday, 4 September, in the Canonization Mass for the Foundress of the men and women Missionaries of Charity. More than a hundred thousand people gathered in St Peter’s Square for the solemn right, one of
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“Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias … Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man … he liked to listen to him.” … “Lord, I love Your Commands” … “… my message … were not with persuasive words …but with a demonstration of spirit
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‘… every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’” … “… an attentive ear is the joy of the wise” … “God, in Your Goodness, You have made a home for the poor” … “God, in Your Goodness, You have made a home for the poor.”
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Let us keep an eye on our neighbor’s well-being, whether in good health or struck by sickness, with as much concern as we do our own. For ‘we are all one in the Lord’ (Rom 12:5) …. What the members of a body are for each other, every one of us is for each of the others. So we shouldn’t
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