by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“When Jesus and His Disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to Him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man … He laid Hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he
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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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“… 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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“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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“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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“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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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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“… 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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“Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop Saint Valentine’s Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts. (Those highly sought-after days are reserved for saints with more clear historical record. After all, the saints are real individuals for us to imitate.)
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Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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