Prayer to God for Defense Against Evil, in the Style of the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel

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Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Loving, All-Present God, Please Defend Us in Battle. Please be our Safeguard Against the wickedness and snares of the devil. Please rebuke him, we humbly pray, and Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Loving, All-Present God, please thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits that prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. All Praise and Glory to

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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 2.18.19 – USCCB/ NABRE

Historic Bible

“… Pharisees came forward … to argue with Jesus, seeking from Him a Sign from Heaven to test Him. He sighed from the Depth of His Spirit and said, ‘Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.’ … He left them, got into the boat again, and went

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Blessing or Woe: You Decide. A Homily for the 6th Sunday of the Year” – Archdiocese of Washington/ Msgr. Charles Pope

Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“The Gospel passage this Sunday is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes. … The word ‘beatitude’ itself means ‘supreme blessedness.’ In ancient Greek, makarios (blessed) referred to a deep, serene, and stable happiness largely unaffected by external matters. It also corresponds to the Hebrew word asher, which is more of an exclamation. Each beatitude could easily be translated to begin in

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Lectio Divina: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (C)” – Carmelites

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“Lord Jesus, send Your Spirit to help us to read the scriptures with the same mind that You read them to the disciples on the way to Emmaus. … Create silence in us so that we may listen to Your voice in creation and in the scriptures, in events and in people, above all in the poor and suffering. May

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Rich in Poverty: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – St. Paul Center

Artistic Drawing of Jesus Preaching in Sermon on the Mount

“The blessings and woes we hear in today’s Gospel mark the perfection of all the wisdom of the Old Testament. That wisdom is summed up with marvelous symmetry in today’s First Reading and Psalm: Each declares that the righteous—those who hope in the Lord and delight in His Law—will prosper like a tree planted near living waters. The wicked, who

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CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: [Holy See Announcement Re: Laicization of McCarrick:] Communiqué of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 16.02.2019″ – VaticanVa

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Traduzione in lingua inglese On 11 January 2019, the Congresso of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the conclusion of a penal process, issued a decree finding Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., guilty of the following delicts while a cleric: solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “The Key to Jesus’ Ministry in One Word: ‘Ephphatha’” – Catholic Exchange/ Stephen Beale

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“… Then He looked up to heaven and groaned. ‘Ephphatha!’ Jesus said. So goes the account of the healing of the deaf man near the Sea of Galilee, as told in Mark. The word is one of a handful of words in Aramaic—believed to be the vernacular language of Jesus—that survived into the Greek New Testament. We don’t have to

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