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The Talk Shows May 20th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North; Mark Kelly, co-founder of Giffords, a gun-control advocacy group.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Roger Stone, a longtime Donald Trump confidant.FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.THIS WEEK (ABC): Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick; Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland, Florida, shooting victim; Nicole Hockley, mother of Newtown, Connecticut, shooting victim; Kudlow.STATE...

Red Double of the First Class with Privileged Octave(Indulgence of 30 years and 30 quarantines) Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within the fire of thy love. THE GREAT DAY, which consummates the work that God had undertaken for the human race has, at last, shone upon the world. The days of Pentecost, as St. Luke says, are accomplished. We have had seven weeks since the Pasch; and now comes the day that opens the mysterious number of Fifty....

The Talk Shows May 13th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Adm. Michael Mullin (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Elaine Rogers, president and CEO of USO-Metro. The panel will be Karl Rove, former Bush White House senior adviser; former Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.; Michael Anton, former Trump national security council spokesman; and Charles Lane of The Washington Post.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): To be announced. (They don’t yet know who to give the anti-Trump soapbox to?) FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pompeo; Sen....

White Semidouble O rex gloriæ, Domine virtutum, qui triumphator hodie super omnes cœlos ascendisti, ne derelinquas nos orphanos; sed mitte promissum Patris in nos Spiritum veritatis, alleluia. O King of glory, Lord of hosts, who didst this day ascend in triumph above all the heavens! leave us not orphans, but send upon us the Spirit of truth, promised by the Father, alleluia. JESUS HAS ASCENDED into heaven. His Divinity had never been absent; but by the Ascension, his Humanity was also enthroned there, and crowned with the brightest diadem of glory. This is another phase of the Mystery we...

White Semidouble IN THE GREEK CHURCH, the fifth Sunday after Easter is called the Sunday of the Man born blind, because her Gospel for the day contains the history of that miracle of our divine Lord. She also calls it Episozomene, which is one of the names given by the Greeks to the mystery of the Ascension, the Feast of which is kept, with them, as with us, during the course of this week. MASS.—The Introit is taken from Isaias, the sublimest of the Prophets. It sweetly invites all the earth to celebrate the victory won by Jesus—a victory...

The Talk Shows May 6th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas; Joseph diGenova, Former U.S. Attorney; Lanny Davis, Former Clinton White House Special Counsel.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Michael Avenatti, lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels; Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Obama administration advisor.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway; Avenatti; Kim Arrroch, British's ambassador to the United States; George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley; Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden.THIS WEEK (ABC): Rudy Giuliani,...

The Talk Shows April 29th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): National security adviser John Bolton; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former FBI Director James Comey.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.THIS WEEK (ABC): To be announced.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

White Semidouble OOUR JESUS HAS ORGANIZED HIS CHURCH, and confided to his Apostles the sacred deposit of the truths which are to form the object of our faith. We must now follow him in another work, of equal importance to the world, and to which he gives his divine attention during these forty days: it is the institution of the Sacraments. It is not enough that we believe; we must, moreover, be made just, that is, we must bear upon us the likeness of God’s holiness; we must receive, we must have incorporated within us, that great fruit of...

The Talk Shows April 22nd, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): French President Emmanuel Macron.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; White House legislative affairs director Marc Short.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif; former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.THIS WEEK (ABC): Perez; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Corker; White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

White Semidouble ℣. In resurrectione tua Christe, alleluia. ℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia. ℟. Cœli et terra lætentur, alleluia. ℟. Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia. THE EASTER MYSTERIES are superseded today by a special subject, which is offered for our consideration. The holy Church invites us to spend this Sunday in honoring the Spouse of Mary, the Foster-Father of the Son of God. And yet, as we offered him the yearly tribute of our devotion on the 19th of March, it is not, properly speaking, his Feast that we are to celebrate today. It is a...

The Talk Shows April 15th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Haley; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.THIS WEEK (ABC): White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Anus King, I-Maine; Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney in New York; Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels.

White Semidouble ℣. In resurrectione tua Christe, alleluia. ℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia. ℟. Cœli et terra lætentur, alleluia. ℟. let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia. THIS SUNDAY goes under the name of the Good Shepherd Sunday, because in the Mass, there is read the Gospel of St. John, wherein our Lord calls himself by this name. How very appropriate is this passage of the Gospel to this present Season, when our Divine Master began his work of establishing and consolidating the Church, by giving it the Pastor, or Shepherd, who was to govern it to the...

White Greater Double (Privilege of the First Class) OUR NEOPHYTES CLOSED THE OCTAVE of the Resurrection yesterday. They were before us in receiving the admirable mystery; their solemnity would finish earlier than ours. This, then, is the eighth day for us who kept the Pasch on the Sunday, and did not anticipate it on the vigil. It reminds us of all the glory and joy of that Feast of feasts, which united the whole of Christendom in one common feeling of triumph. It is the day of light, which takes the place of the Jewish Sabbath. Henceforth, the first...

The Talk Shows April 8th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Michael Rounds, R-S.D., Christopher Wylie, co-founder, Cambridge Analytica.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Sens. John Kennedy, R-La. and Ben Cardin, D-Md.THIS WEEK (ABC): Thomas Bossert, White House homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kudlow; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

The Talk Shows April 1st, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R. S.C.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): David Shulkin, former secretary of veterans affairs; Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Filippo Grandi, U.N. high commissioner for refugees.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala.; Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Shulkin; Sanders.

White Double of the First Class (with Privileged Octave of the First Order) HÆC DIES QUAM FECIT DOMINUS; EXSULTEMUS ET LÆTEMUR IN EA! THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE; LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE THEREIN! The Morning THE NIGHT BETWEEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY has well nigh run its course, and the day-dawn is appearing. The Mother of sorrows is waiting, in courageous hope and patience, for the blissful moment of her Jesus’ return. Magdalene and the other holy women have spent the night in watching, and are preparing to start for the sepulcher. In limbo,...

The Talk Shows March 25th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; March for Our Lives organizer Cameron Kasky; Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Delaney Tarr; second lady Karen Pence and daughter Charlotte Pence.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Corey Lewandowksi, former presidential campaign manager for Donald Trump.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Warner; Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; Marjory Stoneman Douglas students Jaclyn Corin, Ryan Deitsch and Kyle Kashuv.THIS WEEK (ABC): Mark Kelly, co-founder of Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence; Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of...

Red Double of the First Class Hodie, si vocem Domini audiertis, nolite obdurare corda vestra. Today, if ye shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts. EARLY IN THE MORNING of this day, Jesus sets out for Jerusalem, leaving Mary, his Mother, and the two sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, at Bethania. The Mother of Sorrows trembles at seeing her Son thus expose himself to danger, for his enemies are bent upon his destruction; but it is not Death, it is Triumph, that Jesus is to receive today in Jerusalem. The Messias, before being...

The Talk Shows March 18th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas; Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Anus King, I-Maine; South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha.THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Adam Schitff, D-Calif.; Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Paul, Jeff Ima Flake, R-Ariz., and Linda Graham, R-S.C.

Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) Hodie, si vocem Domini audieritis, nolite obdurare corda vestra. Today, if ye shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts. THE HOLY CHURCH begins her Night Office of this Sunday with these impressive words of the royal Prophet. Formerly, the faithful considered it their duty to assist at the Night Office, at least on Sundays and Feasts; they would have grieved to have lost the grand teachings given by the Liturgy. Such fervor has long since died out; the assiduity at the Offices of the Church, which was the...