by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… On the last and greatest day of the feast, #Jesus stood up and exclaimed, ‘Let anyone who thirsts come to Me and drink. As #Scripture says: Rivers of living water will flow from within him who believes in me.’ He said this in reference to the Spirit that those who came to believe in Him were to receive.”
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“‘And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord’ (Lk 1:45). 1. With this greeting, the elderly Elizabeth exalts her young kinswoman Mary, who has come, humble and modest, to help her. Under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, the mother of the Baptist is the first in
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#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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#Catholic #TV #Mass for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from Our Lady of Loretto Abbey in Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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“#Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted #Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the #HolySpirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is
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“During the month of #May, we celebrate many Catholic traditions and customs. May processions, the recitation of the rosary, Marian sodality celebrations and seeking the intercession of #Mary on Mother’s Day are all part of parish life. Also during May, we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin (May 31). In your family, you may even plant
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“Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said, ‘… Now this is Eternal Life, that they should know You, the only True God, and the One whom You sent, Jesus Christ. I Glorified You on earth by accomplishing the Work that You gave Me to do. Now glorify Me, Father, with You, with the Glory that I had with You
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“Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the Throne. Alleluia! His the Triumph, His the Victory alone. Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood. Jesus out of every nation hath Redeemed us by His Blood ….” “… Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now; Alleluia! He is near us, faith believes, nor
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“… The loving figure of the ‘saint of joy’ even today still maintains intact that irresistible charm that he exercised on all those who drew near him to learn to know and experience the authentic sources of Christian joy. Leafing through the biography of St Philip, in fact, one is surprised and fascinated by the cheerful and relaxed method he
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“In the course of the ages two great revolutions have shaken the earth; we call them the two Covenants. The first one caused people to pass from idol worship to the Law, and the second, from the Law to the Gospel. A third upheaval is predicted: that which will transport us from below to above, whereupon there will be no
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