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The Talk Shows March 11th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): CIA Director Mike Pompeo; Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Warren.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pompeo; Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo. THIS WEEK (ABC): White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Warren.

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) THIS SUNDAY, called, from the first word of the Introit, Lætare Sunday, is one of the most solemn of the year. The Church interrupts her Lenten mournfulness; the chants of the Mass speak of nothing but joy and consolation; the Organ, which has been silent during the preceding three Sundays, now gives forth its melodious voice; the Deacon resumes his Dalmatic, and the Subdeacon his Tunic; and instead of purple, Rose-colored Vestments are allowed to be used. These same rites were practiced in Advent, on the third Sunday, called Gaudete. The Church’s...

The Talk Shows March 4th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House trade adviser Peter Navarro; Business Roundtable President Joshua Bolten.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross; Sen. Anus King, I-Maine.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Navarro; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; Andrew Pollack, father of student killed in Florida school shooting.THIS WEEK (ABC): Ross; Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Navarro; Manchin; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio.

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) THE HOLY CHURCH gave us, as the subject of our meditation for the First Sunday of Lent, the Temptation which our Lord Jesus Christ deigned to suffer in the Desert. Her object was to enlighten us how to conquer them. Today, she wishes to complete her instruction on the power and stratagems of our invisible enemies; and for this, she reads to us a passage from the Gospel of St. Luke. During Lent, the Christian ought to repair the past, and provide for the future; but he can neither understand how it...

The Talk Shows February 25th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla.; Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was killed in the Florida school shooting, and school senior Delaney Tarr.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark.; Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Brian Mast, R-Fla.; Austin Eubanks, a survivor of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado; Michele Gay, who co-founded Safe and Sound Schools after her daughter was killed in the...

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) THE SUBJECT OFFERED to our consideration on this Second Sunday is one of the utmost importance for the holy Season. The Church applies to us the lesson which our Savior gave to three of his Apostles. Let us endeavor to be more attentive to it than they were. Jesus was about to pass from Galilee into Judea, that he might go up to Jerusalem and be present at the Feast of the Pasch. It was that last Pasch, which was to begin with the immolation of the figurative lamb, and end with...

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) THIS SUNDAY, the first of the six which come during Lent, is one of the most solemn throughout the year. It has the same privilege as Passion and Palm Sundays—that is, it never gives place to any Feast, not even to that of the Patron, Titular Saint, or Dedication of the Church. In the ancient Calendars, it is called Invocabit, from the first word of the Introit of the Mass. In the Middle Ages (more especially in France), it was called Brand Sunday, because the young people, who had misconducted themselves during...

The Talk Shows February 18th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Mark Kelly, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; Rush Limbaugh. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Reps. Ed Royce, R-Calif., Charlie Dent, R-Pa., and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla.; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio.

The Talk Shows February 11th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House budget director Mick Mulvaney; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House legislative affairs director Marc Short; Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Mulvaney; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif.THIS WEEK (ABC): White House adviser Kellyanne Conway; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Conway; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the Second Class) THE CHURCH gives us today another subject for our meditation: it is the vocation of Abraham. When the waters of the deluge had subsided, and mankind had once more peopled the earth, the immorality, which had previously excited God’s anger, again grew rife among men. Idolatry too, into which the antediluvian race had not fallen, now showed itself, and human wickedness seemed thus to have reached the height of its malice. Foreseeing that the nations of the earth would fall into rebellion against Him, God resolved to select one people that should...

The Talk Shows February 4th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.; Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reince Priebus, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff; former CIA Director John Brennan.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health's infectious disease chief.THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Will Hurd, R-Texas.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Reps. Jim Himes, D-Conn., Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Karen...

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the Second Class) THE CHURCH offers to our consideration, during this week of Sexagesima, the history of Noah and the deluge. Man has not profited by the warnings already given him. God is obliged to punish him once more, and by a terrible chastisement. There is found out of the whole human race one just man; God makes a covenant with him, and with us through him. But before He draws up this new alliance, He would show that He is the sovereign Master, and that man, and the earth whereon he lives, subsist solely...

The Talk Shows January 28th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House legislative affairs director Marc Short; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Matt Zeller, a former Army officer and founder of the nonprofit organization No One Left Behind.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Short; Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill; Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., and Will Hurd, R-Texas.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Linda Graham, R-S.C.; former Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr.STATE OF...

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the Second Class) THE HOLY CHURCH calls us together today in order that we may hear from her lips the sad history of the fall of our first parents. This awful event implies the Passion and cruel Death of the Son of God made Man, who has mercifully taken upon Himself to expiate this and every subsequent sin committed by Adam and us his children. It is of the utmost importance that we should understand the greatness of the remedy; we must, therefore, consider the grievousness of the wound inflicted. For this purpose, we will...

The Talk Shows January 21st, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House budget director Mick Mulvaney; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House legislative director Marc Short; Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Dick Durbin, D-IllFACE THE NATION (CBS): Mulvaney; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.THIS WEEK (ABC): Short; Durbin; Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Mark Meadows, R-N.C.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Mulvaney; Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Green Semidouble THE VARIATION OF EASTER SUNDAY necessitates almost every year a different arrangement of the Sundays after the Epiphany from that in which they stand in the Missal. Septuagesima often comes in January and the Feast of the Purification is occasionally later than Quinquagesima Sunday; hence the office of these four last Sundays may have to be transferred to another season of the liturgical cycle. We have inserted here the third and fourth Sundays as usually falling in Christmastide, while the office of the fifth and sixth Sundays will be found near Septuagesima and the second after Pentecost,...

The Talk Shows January 14th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen; California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and David Perdue, R-Ga.; Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah; outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va.

Green Semidouble THE THIRD MYSTERY of the Epiphany shows us the completion of the merciful designs of God upon the world, at the same time that it manifests to us, for the third time, the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Star has led the soul to faith; the sanctified Waters of the Jordan have conferred purity upon her; the Marriage Feast unites her to her God. We have been considering, during this Octave, the Bridegroom revealing himself to the Spouse; we have heard him calling her to come to him from the heights of Libanus;...

The Talk Shows Jan 7, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): CIA Director Mike Pompeo; Corey Lewandowski, onetime manager of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; author Michael Wolff.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pompeo; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; former Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss.THIS WEEK (ABC): To be announced.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

(If the Epiphany fall on a Saturday, the Mass and Office we now give are said on the following Day. Otherwise, they are deferred to the day within the Octave which is a Sunday.) MASS.—It is the Kingship of the divine Infant that the Church again proclaims in the opening Canticle of the Mass for the Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany. She sings the praises of her Emmanuel’s Throne, and takes her part with the Angels who hymn the glory of Jesus’ eternal Empire. Let us do the same, and adore the King of Ages, in his...