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Green Semidouble ON THIS SUNDAY, which is their Twelfth of St. Matthew, the Greeks read, in the Mass, the episode of the young rich man who questions Jesus, given in the 19th of the Saint’s Gospel. In the West, it is the Gospel of the good Samaritan, which gives its name to this twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. The Introit begins with that beautiful verse of the 69th Psalm: Come to mine assistance, O God! O Lord, make haste to help me! Cassian, in his tenth Conference has admirably drawn out the beauty of these words, and shows how they...

The Talk Shows August 5th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; White House National Security Adviser John Bolton; Cody Wilson, director of Defense Distributed. The panel will be Karl Rove, former Bush White House senior adviser; Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board; Susan Page of USA Today; and political consultant Philippe Reines, former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Clint Watts, distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of...

Green Semidouble WITH THE GREEKS, this Sunday—their eleventh of Saint Matthew—is called The Kings Parable, who calls his servants to account. In the Western Church, it has gone under the name of Sunday of the deaf and dumb, ever since the Gospel of the Pharisee and Publican has been assigned to the tenth. Today’s Mass, as we now have it, still gives evidence as to what was its ancient arrangement. Our commentary on today’s liturgy will show us this very plainly. In those years when Easter falls nearest to the 21st of March, the Books of Kings are continued...

The Talk Shows July 29th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): President Trump’s attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The panel will be Jonah Goldberg of National Review; Gillian Turner, Fox News correspondent; Jonathan Swan, national political reporter for Axios; and Mo Elleithee, executive director of Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sam Nunberg, former Donald Trump campaign aide; Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio; Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News and author of “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War...

Green Semidouble THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM has closed that portion of the prophetic Scriptures which were based on the institutions and history of the figurative period. The Altar of the true God, built by Solomon on the the summit of Moriah, was the authenticated evidence of the true religion, to those who were then living under the Law of expectation. Even after the promulgation of the New Testament, the continued existence of that Altar (the only one heretofore recognized by the Most High as his own), was some sort of an excuse for such of the Jews as were...

p>The Talk Shows July 22nd, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Sen. Robert Menendez, R-N.J. The panel will be Brit Hume, Juan Williams, former State Department spokesperson Marie Harf and Guy Benson of Townhall.com. Benson and Harf are hosts of “Benson and Harf” on Fox News Radio.p>MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Preempted due to coverage of the British Open.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat nominee in New York Congressional District 14; former Secretary of...

Green Semidouble THE LAMENTATION over Jerusalem’s woes is, in the Western Church, the subject of today’s Gospel; and it gave its name to this ninth Sunday after Pentecost, at least among the Latins. We have already observed that it is easy to find, even in the Liturgy as it now stands, traces of how the early Church was all attention to the approaching fulfillment of the prophecies against Jerusalem, that ungrateful City, upon which our Jesus heaped his earliest favors. The last limit put by mercy upon justice has, at length, been passed. Our Lord, speaking of the ruin...

The Talk Shows July 15th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Jon Huntsman Jr., U.S. ambassador to Russia; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. The panel in Helsinki will be Jonathan Swan of Axios and Michael Gordon of The Wall Street Journal. The panel in Washington will be Susan Page of USA Today, Charles Lane of The Washington Post, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Huntsman; Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Ark. The panel will be Amy...

White Double IN THE MIDDLE AGES, this Sunday was called, the sixth and last Sunday after the Natalis of the Apostles (that is, the Feast of St. Peter); it was, indeed, the last, for the years when Easter had been kept was late in April as was possible; but, it was only the first after that Feast of St. Peter, when Easter immediately followed the spring equinox. We have already noticed the variable character of this last portion of the liturgical cycle, which was the result of Easter’s being kept on a different day each year; and that, in...

The Talk Shows July 8th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America; Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. representative to NATO. The panel will be Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.; Mimi Rocah, former assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York. The panel will be Mark Murray of NBC News, Susan Page of USA Today, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post...

Green Semidouble THE DOMINICAL CYCLE of the Time after Pentecost completes today its first seven. Previous to the general adoption of the changes introduced into the Sunday Gospels for this portion of the Year, the Gospel of the multiplication of the seven loaves gave its name to the seventh Sunday; and the mystery it contains is still evident in more than one section of today’s liturgy. As we have already seen, this mystery was that of the consummation of the perfect in the repose or rest of God himself; it was the fruitful peace of the divine union. Nothing,...

The Talk Shows July 1st, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): National security adviser John Bolton; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society and Trump adviser.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Bolton; Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Roberta Jacobson, former ambassador to Mexico; Mark Salter, co-author with John McCain of “The Restless Wave.”THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN):...

Green Semidouble THE OFFICE FOR THE SIXTH SUNDAY after Pentecost, which began yesterday evening, reminded us, in its Magnificat Antiphon, of a repentence which has never had an equal. David, the royal prophet, the conqueror of Goliath, himself conquered by sensuality, and from adulterer become a murderer, at last felt the crushing weight of his double crime, and exclaimed: I do beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly! “I have acted as a fool!” Sin is always a folly, and a weakness, no matter what kind it may be, or...

The Talk Shows June 24th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Anus King, I-Maine, and James Lankford, R-Okla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Rep. Louis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; Tom Bossert, former Trump homeland security adviser; Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children; David Miliband, president and CEO of International Rescue Committee.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.;...

Green Semidouble THIS SUNDAY, which, with the Greeks, is called the fifth of Saint Matthew, was known by the Latins as the Sunday of the Fishing; such was its name up to the time when the Church had transferred to the previous Sunday the Gospel which suggested that title. The week which it commences is, in some ancient lectionaries, called the first after the Feast of the Apostles or of St. Peter; in others, it is the second or third after the same feast; these, and other similar varieties of names, which it is no rare thing to find...

The Talk Shows June 16th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Cedric Richmond, D-La.THIS WEEK (ABC): Former White House strategist Steve Bannon; Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Giuliani; Reps. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.

Green Semidouble THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST was called, for a long period, in the West, the Sunday of Mercy, because, formerly, there was read upon the passage from St. Luke, beginning with the words: “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.” But, this Gospel having been since assigned to the Mass of the first Sunday after Pentecost, the Gospel of the fifth Sunday was made that of the fourth; the Gospel of the sixth became that of the fifth; and so on, up to the twenty-third. The change we speak of was, however, not introduced into many Churches...

The Talk Shows June 10th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pre-empted by French Open tennis.FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kudlow; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

White Semidouble THE FAITHFUL SOUL HAS WITNESSED, through the sacred Liturgy, the close of the mysteries of our Redemption, which were wrought, in succession, by our Jesus, and applied to us, one after the other, by his Church, in her divine worship of them. The Holy Ghost has been sent, by the Father and Son, and he has lovingly and graciously come, to continue amongst us the work of the Incarnate Word. He, the Spirit of the Father and Son, is come to support the Christian in this second portion of both time and season; it is, as far...

The Talk Shows June 3rd, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow ; Corey Lewandowski, a former Donald Trump campaign manager.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas.THIS WEEK (ABC): Kudlow.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.