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  • My Catholic Life!: Becoming an Evangelist - Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/25/2023 5:20:56 AM PST · by fidelis · 4 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 25, 2023 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB)“Saul, my brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to you on the way by which you came, that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 9:17Saint Paul (who in Hebrew was known as Saul of Tarsus) was a devout Jewish Pharisee who vigorously defended the law. After Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven, the newfound Christian faith began to grow rapidly. As a result, Saul of Tarsus vigorously tried to end this new religion which he perceived as erroneous. He traveled about looking for followers of Jesus to arrest...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 25-January-2023

    01/25/2023 4:10:06 AM PST · by annalex · 11 replies
    Wednesday 25 January 2023The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle Feast St. Maurus Roman Catholic Church, Biehle, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First readingActs 22:3-16 ©'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'Paul said to the people, ‘I am a Jew and was born at Tarsus in Cilicia. I was brought up here in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was taught the exact observance of the Law of our ancestors. In fact, I was as full of duty towards God as you are today. I even persecuted this Way to the death, and sent women as well...
  • High School Counselor Invites Witches Who Gave Students Crystals, Loses Job

    01/24/2023 3:28:09 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    Christian Post ^ | SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2023 | Anugrah Kumar
    Salem Witch Sandra Wright blows in the fumes from the incense during the Salem Witches' Magic Circle at Salem Common on Halloween in Salem, MA, on October 31, 2018. The ceremony involving local and visiting witches celebrates loved ones that have crossed over into the spirit world. The witches believe that on Halloween, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest and connections can be made to those being mourned or missed. A Catholic high school counselor in Pennslyvania lost her job after inviting three "witches" to speak to students, who gave them crystals that Wiccans...
  • [Catholic Caucus] My Catholic Life!: Doing the Will of God - Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/24/2023 7:05:23 AM PST · by fidelis · 2 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 24, 2023 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.” Mark 3:34–35Jesus said many things that caused people to pause and think. Today’s Gospel passage is one of those times. Just prior to the passage quoted above, Jesus was told that His mother and brothers were outside looking for Him. After hearing this, instead of going to greet them, He asked those around Him, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” Then He looked around and answered His own question with the above quoted...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 24-January-2023

    01/24/2023 5:46:16 AM PST · by annalex · 14 replies
    24 January 2023Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 3 in Ordinary Time Saint Francis de Sales Oratory, Saint Louis, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 10:1-10 ©Christ’s self-offering sanctifies usSince the Law has no more than a reflection of these realities, and no finished picture of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, with the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year. Otherwise, the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they had...
  • Attacks against Catholic churches approach 300 incidents since May 2020: report

    01/23/2023 7:12:26 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01-23-2023 | Jon Brown Fox News
    Hundreds of Roman Catholic churches have been attacked since the violence that erupted nationwide following George Floyd’s death in May 2020, according to a Catholic nonprofit. Since May 2020, there have been nearly 300 attacks against U.S. Catholic churches as far afield as Emmonak, Alaska, with the most recent tally at 275 as of Sunday, according to a tracker from CatholicVote. The religious nonprofit organization noted that “while the riots and looting mostly died down in the summer of 2020, the attacks on Catholic churches have continued and escalated.” The attacks against churches include arson, broken windows, decapitated statues and...
  • My Catholic Life!: Daily Humble Repentance - Monday, January 23, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/23/2023 6:55:32 AM PST · by fidelis · 2 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 22, 2017 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCBThe scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.” Mark 3:22By this time, Jesus was fully engaged in His public ministry. He had healed the sick and lame, cast out many demons, called the Twelve Apostles and given them authority over evil spirits, and preached the Good News to many. Just prior to this Gospel passage, some of Jesus’ own extended family had criticized Him, claiming that Jesus was out of His mind. Then the scribes began their public condemnation...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 23-January-2023

    01/23/2023 6:33:32 AM PST · by annalex · 11 replies
    23 January 2023Monday of week 3 in Ordinary Time Saint Marianne Cope parish, Solvay, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHebrews 9:15,24-28 ©Christ offers himself only once to take on the faults of manyChrist brings a new covenant, as the mediator, only so that the people who were called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant. It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was only modelled on the real one; but it was heaven itself, so that...
  • THE AMERICAN YAWP 10. Religion and Reform

    01/22/2023 9:46:09 AM PST · by daniel1212
    Stanford University Press ^ | January 22, 2019 | Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright
    The early nineteenth century was a period of immense change in the United States. Economic, political, demographic, and territorial transformations radically altered how Americans thought about themselves, their communities, and the rapidly expanding nation. It was a period of great optimism, with the possibilities of self-governance infusing everything from religion to politics. Yet it was also a period of great conflict, as the benefits of industrialization and democratization increasingly accrued along starkly uneven lines of gender, race, and class. Westward expansion distanced urban dwellers from frontier settlers more than ever before, even as the technological innovations of industrialization—like the telegraph...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 22-January-2023

    01/22/2023 7:55:01 AM PST · by annalex · 12 replies
    22 January 20233rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sunday of the Word of God) Cathedral of Valencia, Saint Vincent Martyr chapel Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 8:23-9:3 ©In Galilee of the nations the people has seen a great lightIn days past the Lord humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in days to come he will confer glory on the Way of the Sea on the far side of Jordan, province of the nations.The people that walked in darknesshas seen a great light;on those who live in a land of deep shadowa light has...
  • My Catholic Life!: A New Era of Hope - Sunday, January 22, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/22/2023 7:02:02 AM PST · by fidelis · 3 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 21, 2017 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB)From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17In Matthew’s Gospel, from which we read today, we hear the first words spoken by our Lord as He begins His public ministry: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”Up until this point, Matthew’s Gospel presented us with Jesus’ genealogy, His birth, the story of the Magi, the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt, the slaughter of the Holy Innocents, Jesus’ baptism, the preaching of Saint John the Baptist and Jesus’ forty days in the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Sacred Page: The Joy of Dropping Everything: The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

    01/21/2023 9:23:06 AM PST · by fidelis · 2 replies
    The Sacred Page Blog ^ | January 19, 2017 | Dr. John Bergsma
    The Readings for this Sunday focus in part on the theme of joy, the joy that comes from recognizing Jesus Christ as the light of the world, the ray of sunshine from God who shows us a different way to live, a way that will lead to an eternal friendship with a God who loves us as our Father. Jesus is the joy and light that first was promised to the people of Israel long ago, but is now available to the whole world, from Sweden to Swaziland. 1. Our First Reading is Isaiah 8:23-9:3:First the Lord degraded the land...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 21-January-2023; St. Agnes

    01/21/2023 8:06:13 AM PST · by annalex · 11 replies
    21 January 2023Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr on Saturday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Agnes Parish, Arlington, Va. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 9:2-3,11-14 ©He has entered the sanctuary once and for all through his own bloodThere was a tent which comprised two compartments: the first, in which the lamp stand, the table and the presentation loaves were kept, was called the Holy Place; then beyond the second veil, an innermost part which was called the Holy of Holies. But now Christ has come,...
  • My Catholic Life!: Being Misunderstood - Saturday, January 21, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/21/2023 5:06:18 AM PST · by fidelis · 2 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 21, 2023 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” Mark 3:20–21When you consider the sufferings of Jesus, most likely your thoughts first turn to the crucifixion. From there, you may think about His scourging at the pillar, the carrying of the Cross and the other events that took place from the time of His arrest until His death. However, there were many other human...
  • Cabal of modernists rather than the Holy Spirit controlling the Synodal Path

    01/20/2023 2:50:09 PM PST · by Gillibrand1 · 6 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 20/01/2023 | CG
    The Continental Assembly in Prague is the worldwide synodal process and the ten German participants who will be present digitally are now also known. According to the list of participants completed on Friday and published by the German Bishops' Conference (DBK), they are....
  • My Catholic Life!: Confronting Evil with the Gospel - Friday, January 20, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/20/2023 8:08:19 AM PST · by fidelis · 4 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 19, 2023 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB)He appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles, that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. Mark 3:14–15The Twelve Apostles were first called by Jesus and then sent to preach with authority. The authority they were given was for the purpose of driving out demons. But how did they do that? It’s interesting to note that the authority they were given over demons was, in part, associated with their commission to preach. And though there are some recorded instances in the Scriptures...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 20-January-2023

    01/20/2023 6:58:11 AM PST · by annalex · 12 replies
    20 January 2023Friday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Fabian, Pangasinan, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHebrews 8:6-13 ©The first covenant is already oldWe have seen that Christ has been given a ministry of a far higher order, and to the same degree it is a better covenant of which he is the mediator, founded on better promises. If that first covenant had been without a fault, there would have been no need for a second one to replace it. And in fact God does find fault with them; he says:See, the days are coming...
  • Foul-mouthed Pope Francis abandons traditional teaching on absolution

    01/19/2023 9:59:45 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 97 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 01/19/2023 | Andrea Widburg
    Pope Francis is just full of surprises. Word has now emerged that the Pope, using coarse language, advised Spanish seminarians that, even if the person making a confession is not penitent and does not intend to repent in the future, priests must grant that person absolution. By doing so, Francis departed from Catholic doctrine. More than that, he has just removed eternal punishment for any and all crimes and sins. As I said, full of surprises. The Catholic Herald has the details:Priests should grant absolution in the confessional even when the penitent has no intention to repent, the Pope has...
  • My Catholic Life!: Single-Minded Devotion - Thursday January 19, 2023 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    01/19/2023 8:24:09 AM PST · by fidelis · 3 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | January 18, 2023 | My Catholic Life
    (Daily readings from the USCCB)He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. Mark 3:9–10It’s fascinating to ponder the enthusiasm that so many people had toward Jesus. In the passage above, we see Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that He would not be crushed as He taught the crowd. He had been curing many who were sick, and the crowd was...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 19-January-2023

    01/19/2023 4:25:29 AM PST · by annalex · 11 replies
    19 January 2023Thursday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Henry Catholic Church, Buckeye, AZ Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHebrews 7:25-8:6 ©He has offered sacrifice once and for all by offering himselfThe power of Jesus to save is utterly certain, since he is living for ever to intercede for all who come to God through him. To suit us, the ideal high priest would have to be holy, innocent and uncontaminated, beyond the influence of sinners, and raised up above the heavens; one who would not need to offer sacrifices every day, as the other high priests...