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  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-10-05

    12/10/2005 9:50:02 AM PST · by Salvation · 25 replies · 283+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-10-05 | New American Bible
    December 10, 2005Saturday of the Second Week in Advent Psalm: Saturday 52 Reading ISir 48:1-4, 9-11 In those days,like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijahwhose words were as a flaming furnace.Their staff of bread he shattered,in his zeal he reduced them to straits;By the Lord’s word he shut up the heavensand three times brought down fire.How awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!Whose glory is equal to yours?You were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire,in a chariot with fiery horses.You were destined, it is written, in time to cometo put an end to wrath before the day...
  • Prayer And Meditation: O Come!

    12/10/2005 9:46:50 AM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 16 replies · 153+ views
    12/10/05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    O Come   O come, O Jesus, O Light, O Hope of mankind, God with us, Who came as the poor child of poor parents, King of the universe embracing his people, You who come so often in the guise of the irritating, the unpleasant, the lowly, the needy, the ugly, the hurt, Come to me today, as surely as you came that  nativity night and fill my heart with the light of your love that I may see with your eyes, love with your heart, touch with your touch, until, when you come again in glory, King of the...
  • Standing by the Cross in Nebraska

    12/09/2005 9:25:01 AM PST · by concernedAmerican1 · 5 replies · 624+ views
    TFP Student Action ^ | 12-09-05 | Cesar Franco
    When the University of Nebraska’s Studio Theatre advertised its plans to stage the blasphemous anti-Catholic play "Corpus Christi," the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) and its TFP Student Action and America Need Fatima campaign immediately launched a prayerful protest. "Corpus Christi" portrays Our Lord and His twelve Apostles as homosexuals. Just as Our Divine Savior was abandoned, insulted and mocked during His Passion, so is He offended by the sins of men today. Yet as we recall the tragic abandonment of Our Lord, we also behold the heroic example of Our Lady at the...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-09-05, Optional, St. Juan Diego

    12/09/2005 9:03:34 AM PST · by Salvation · 22 replies · 248+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-09-05 | New American Bible
    December 9, 2005Friday in the Second Week of Advent Psalm: Friday 52 Reading IIs 48:17-19 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer,the Holy One of Israel:I, the LORD, your God,teach you what is for your good,and lead you on the way you should go.If you would hearken to my commandments,your prosperity would be like a river,and your vindication like the waves of the sea;Your descendants would be like the sand,and those born of your stock like its grains,Their name never cut offor blotted out from my presence. Responsorial PsalmPs 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 R. (see John 8:12) Those who follow...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-08-05, Solemnity, Immaculate Conception/Bld Virgin Mary

    12/08/2005 8:27:21 AM PST · by Salvation · 37 replies · 557+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-08-05 | New American Bible
    December 8, 2005Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Thursday 52 Reading IGn 3:9-15, 20 After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree,the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?”He answered, “I heard you in the garden;but I was afraid, because I was naked,so I hid myself.”Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked?You have eaten, then,from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.”The...
  • Prayer and Meditation: Into your arms, O Lord

    12/07/2005 10:58:29 AM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 15 replies · 204+ views
    12/07/05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Matthew 11: 28-30 In your arms O Lord let me cast all my weariness, fear, sadness, loss. In your eyes I see love, in your touch, healing, in your voice, caring, and in your presence, peace. O Lord, how could I know that there was just...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-07-05, Memorial, St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor/church

    12/07/2005 8:44:29 AM PST · by Salvation · 30 replies · 442+ views
    USCCB.org ^ | 12-07-05 | New American Bible
    December 7, 2005Memorial of Saint Ambrose, bishop and doctor of the Church Psalm: Wednesday 52 Reading IIs 40:25-31 To whom can you liken me as an equal?says the Holy One.Lift up your eyes on highand see who has created these things:He leads out their army and numbers them,calling them all by name.By his great might and the strength of his powernot one of them is missing!Why, O Jacob, do you say,and declare, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the LORD,and my right is disregarded by my God”? Do you not knowor have you not heard?The LORD is the eternal...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-06-05, Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas

    12/06/2005 9:09:43 AM PST · by Salvation · 27 replies · 460+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-06-05 | New American Bible
    December 6, 2005Tuesday of the Second Week in Advent Psalm: Tuesday 52 Reading IIs 40:1-11 Comfort, give comfort to my people,says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to herthat her service is at an end,her guilt is expiated;Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORDdouble for all her sins. A voice cries out:In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!Every valley shall be filled in,every mountain and hill shall be made low;The rugged land shall be made a plain,the rough country, a broad valley.Then the glory of...
  • That incredible shrinking Advent-Christmas season (Christmas should start, not end, Dec. 25)

    12/05/2005 10:36:23 PM PST · by churchillbuff · 40 replies · 1,635+ views
    The Tidings ^ | Dec 1 05 | George Weigel
    The estimable Father John Jay Hughes reports that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a feature article last December 26 on how to disassemble and store Christmas decorations. As Father Hughes commented: "In my childhood, thanks to my Anglican priest-father, we were never permitted to put up the tree or any Christmas decorations until Christmas Eve. And once up, they stayed there until at least the Octave of Epiphany" (which, I'd perhaps better note, would be January 13 --- if, that is, the bishops hadn't moved Epiphany from its proper date to a nearby Sunday, a folly surpassed only by the...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-05-05

    12/05/2005 9:01:05 AM PST · by Salvation · 21 replies · 832+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-05-05 | New American Bible
    December 5, 2005Monday of the Second Week in Advent Psalm: Monday 52 Reading IIs 35:1-10 The desert and the parched land will exult;the steppe will rejoice and bloom.They will bloom with abundant flowers,and rejoice with joyful song.The glory of Lebanon will be given to them,the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;They will see the glory of the LORD,the splendor of our God.Strengthen the hands that are feeble,make firm the knees that are weak,Say to those whose hearts are frightened:Be strong, fear not!Here is your God,he comes with vindication;With divine recompensehe comes to save you.Then will the eyes of the blind be...
  • Prayer and Meditation: Meditation on the Nativity

    12/04/2005 7:51:57 PM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 3 replies · 655+ views
    12/4/05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    Meditation on the Nativity O Lord, how often we think we are rich, living in plenty, but our hearts, instead, are living in the barrens, a desert haunted by dry winds ripping at our souls, waiting for the rain from Heaven that makes the desert bloom, that brings the peace we long for, looking for it in so many wrong places, forgetting the source, forgetting the call, forgetting you. So much like how the world once turned its back on a stable, and a child, and the song of angels, leaving no room at the inn like we too often...
  • Advent Thoughts: Some of the Church Fathers on the Divinity of Christ

    12/03/2005 6:47:15 PM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 703+ views
    Various
    Thinking about Advent, and what it means, and why we even celebrate Christmas, led me to these quotes by other, earlier witnesses for our Lord Jesus. John the Apostle: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God;  all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.   In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from...
  • Catholic Caucus: Sunday Mass Readings, 12-04-05, Second Sunday of Advent

    12/03/2005 4:38:36 PM PST · by Salvation · 28 replies · 752+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-04-05 | New American Bible
    December 4, 2005Second Week of Advent Psalm: Sunday 52 Reading IIs 40:1-5, 9-11 Comfort, give comfort to my people,says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to herthat her service is at an end,her guilt is expiated;indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORDdouble for all her sins. A voice cries out:In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!Every valley shall be filled in,every mountain and hill shall be made low;the rugged land shall be made a plain,the rough country, a broad valley.Then the glory of the LORD...
  • Prayer and Meditation: The Shepherd

    12/03/2005 3:21:56 PM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 9 replies · 478+ views
    12/3/05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.  Matthew 9: 36 O Lord, you who know how much we need a shepherd, who know how we stumble in the wilderness without your guiding hand, Be thou my shepherd. In your care, under your peace, only there are my needs truly met, my deepest wants answered in the pastures that your loving care provides, through the waters of life that flow from your heart to quench my aching soul, restored by your loving touch....
  • The Rev. Samuel Edwards: Sermon for Advent 1

    12/03/2005 12:00:14 PM PST · by sionnsar · 1 replies · 503+ views
    Prydain ^ | 11/30/2005 | Will
    From the Rev. Samuel Edwards of the Anglican Church of the Holy Comforter in Alabama, here is a sermon for the First Sunday in Advent:Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent, 2005 In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. For us, the fact that the Church year begins on this Sunday is old news: Most of us learned it even before going through confirmation instruction. However, there is something counter-intuitive about the character of Advent, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with where the calendar fixes the start of the...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-03-05, Memorial St. Francis Xavier, priest

    12/03/2005 7:40:12 AM PST · by Salvation · 22 replies · 325+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-03-05 | New American Bible
    December 3, 2005Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, priest Psalm: Saturday 51 Reading IIs 30:19-21, 23-26 Thus says the Lord GOD,the Holy One of Israel:O people of Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem,no more will you weep;He will be gracious to you when you cry out,as soon as he hears he will answer you.The Lord will give you the bread you needand the water for which you thirst.No longer will your Teacher hide himself,but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher,While from behind, a voice shall sound in your ears:“This is the way; walk in it,”when you would turn to...
  • The Relationship Between Advent and the Change in the Seasons (Dom Guéranger)

    12/02/2005 8:44:18 AM PST · by Pyro7480 · 7 replies · 451+ views
    The Liturgical Year | 1800s | Dom Gueranger
    Dom Guéranger, in his Liturgical Year, under the entry for the feast of St. Bibiana(which is December 2nd), makes a wonderful commentary on the relationship between the season of Advent, and the change in the seasons towards winter. Winter doesn't officially start until a few days before Christmas, but the trend toward that season is well under way when Advent usually starts in the Northern Hemisphere. "We will today consider the state of nature at this season of the year. The earth is stripped of her wonted verdure, the flowers are gone, the fruits are fallen, the leaves are torn...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-02-05

    12/02/2005 8:00:00 AM PST · by Salvation · 22 replies · 290+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-02-05 | New American Bible
    December 2, 2005Friday of the First Week in Advent Psalm: Friday 51 Reading IIs 29:17-24 Thus says the Lord GOD:But a very little while,and Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard,and the orchard be regarded as a forest!On that day the deaf shall hearthe words of a book;And out of gloom and darkness,the eyes of the blind shall see.The lowly will ever find joy in the LORD,and the poor rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.For the tyrant will be no moreand the arrogant will have gone;All who are alert to do evil will be cut off,those whose mere word...
  • Prayer and Meditation: Actions

    12/01/2005 9:39:27 AM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 8 replies · 125+ views
    12/01/05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.  The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined." Matthew 7:26-27 Forgive us, Lord, For all the hours of speculating on the mechanics of your grace instead of living as salt and light, your beacons to a dark and sinful world. Forgive us Lord, for all the hours we argue about the right method of prayer instead of praying, humble and...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-01-05

    12/01/2005 9:13:56 AM PST · by Salvation · 20 replies · 283+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 12-01-05 | New American Bible
    December 1, 2005Thursday of the First Week in Advent Psalm: Thursday 51 Reading IIs 26:1-6 On that day they will sing this song in the land of Judah: “A strong city have we;he sets up walls and ramparts to protect us.Open up the gatesto let in a nation that is just,one that keeps faith.A nation of firm purpose you keep in peace;in peace, for its trust in you.” Trust in the LORD forever!For the LORD is an eternal Rock.He humbles those in high places,and the lofty city he brings down;He tumbles it to the ground,levels it with the dust.It is...