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Catechism of the Catholic Church 395 – The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God’s reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries – of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human...

When needs need to be met, how do you respond? Do you criticize and sit on the sidelines? Or do you jump up and put your faith into action? Jesus called us to have a love with purpose and action—a love that "does." A love that rolls up its sleeves and gets into the mess when a crisis hits our community. Jack Hibbs podcast. 33 minutes long.

24 January 2025 Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor on Friday of week 2 in Ordinary Time Saint Francis de Sales Oratory, St. Louis, MO Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 8:6-13The 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...

23 January 2025 Thursday of week 2 in Ordinary Time Saint Marianne Cope Parish, Solvay, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 7:25-8:6He 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...

Mmm dd, 2025 TITLE Saint Marianne Cope Parish, Solvay, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 7:25-8:6He 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 do for their own sins...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The debate over whether women should be allowed as pastors has been settled once and for all, thanks to the heroic efforts of the National Cathedral's lady Bishop Mariann Budde. The Episcopal woman smiled ear-to-ear as she strode out of the National Cathedral, knowing that she had proved to the world beyond a shadow of a doubt that only men should be pastors. "I did it!" exclaimed Budde, proudly hugging supporters. "I finally showed all you morons out there precisely why women should never, ever be allowed to lead a church. Did you see everyone's faces in...

22 January 2025Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children on Wednesday of week 2 in Ordinary TimeSt. Vincent of Saragossa church, KrakowReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 7:1-3,15-17You are a priest of the order of Melchizedek, for everYou remember that Melchizedek, king of Salem, a priest of God Most High, went to meet Abraham who was on his way back after defeating the kings, and blessed him; and also that it was to him that Abraham gave a tenth of all that he had. By the interpretation of his name, he is, first, ‘king...

Mmm dd, 2025 Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr on Tuesday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Agnes Church in Arlington, VA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 6:10-20In this hope we have an anchor for our soulGod would not be so unjust as to forget all you have done, the love that you have for his name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for the saints. Our one desire is that every one of you should go on showing the same...

20 January 2025 Monday of week 2 in Ordinary TimeThe Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr, Pangasinan, PhilippinesReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 5:1-10Although he was Son, he learned to obey through sufferingEvery high priest has been taken out of mankind and is appointed to act for men in their relations with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; and so he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or uncertain because he too lives in the limitations of weakness. That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as well as for...

Promise Keeper’s founder Bill McCartney passed away peacefully in his sleep last Friday after a long battle with dementia. He was 84. McCartney was a highly successful former University of Colorado coach who founded the Promise Keepers in 1990, an evangelical parachurch ministry revolving around 7 promises designed to guide men toward living with integrity in a community with one another. A Promise Keeper is committed to honoring Jesus Christ through worship, prayer, and obedience to God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit. A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding...

19 January 20252nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Henry Catholic Church, Nashville Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 62:1-5The bridegroom rejoices in his brideAbout Zion I will not be silent,about Jerusalem I will not grow weary,until her integrity shines out like the dawnand her salvation flames like a torch.The nations then will see your integrity,all the kings your glory,and you will be called by a new name,one which the mouth of the Lord will confer.You are to be a crown of splendour in the hand of the Lord,a princely diadem in the hand of your God;no longer are...

18 January 2025 Saturday of week 1 in Ordinary Time The church of St. Margaret, Bohinjska Bela, SloveniaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 4:12-16Let us be confident in approaching the throne of graceThe word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom...

17 January 2025 Saint Antony, Abbot on Friday of week 1 in Ordinary Time St. Anthony Abbot Parish Church, Pangasinan, Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 4:1-5,11None of you has come too late for God's promiseBe careful: the promise of reaching the place of rest that God had for the Israelites still holds good, and none of you must think that he has come too late for it. We received the Good News exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no...

Evangelist Franklin Graham has commented on whether God is “judging” Hollywood as catastrophic wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles, destroying entire communities. Speaking about the situation, Graham, the CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, stated, “People have lost everything. A lot of people are asking ‘Why?’ and that’s a hard question to answer.” He added, “We want to reassure them of God’s love — that He cares for them and that He hasn’t turned His back on them.” The fires have claimed at least 24 lives and burned through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los Angeles...

16 January 2025 Thursday of week 1 in Ordinary TimeBlessed Joseph Vaz Church (Shrine), Mudipu, Mangalore, IndiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 3:7-14Keep encouraging one anotherThe Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today; do not harden your hearts, as happened in the Rebellion, on the Day of Temptation in the wilderness, when your ancestors challenged me and tested me, though they had seen what I could do for forty years. That was why I was angry with that generation and said: How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways! And so, in...

15 January 2025 Wednesday of week 1 in Ordinary Time Killeedy, Ireland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 2:14-18He took to himself descent from AbrahamSince all the children share the same blood and flesh, Christ too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could take away all the power of the devil, who had power over death, and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death. For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself descent from Abraham....

In its latest attack on religious organizations, the Nicaraguan government has ordered the expulsion of all remaining Catholic nuns from the country. According to exiled human rights lawyer Martha Molina and a report by La Croix International, the nuns had “until December to leave the country.” “The nuns have already been banned from working in nonprofit organizations, now all their property is being confiscated, and most of them have already left Nicaragua,” Molina said. This banishment is the latest in a series of assaults by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega against religious organizations and NGOs, especially those connected to the Catholic...

14 January 2025 Tuesday of week 1 in Ordinary Time Church of St Kentigern, Mungrisedale, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 2:5-12The one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are of the same stockGod did not appoint angels to be rulers of the world to come, and that world is what we are talking about. Somewhere there is a passage that shows us this. It runs: What is man that you should spare a thought for him, the son of man that you should care for him? For a short while you made him...

For decades, conservative Christians opposed to homosexuality cited the Bible scholarship of Richard B. Hays, the dean of Duke Divinity School, who provided a full-on argument from Scripture against gay relationships. “Homosexuality is one among many tragic signs that we are a broken people, alienated from God’s loving purpose,” Mr. Hays asserted in his book “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” (1996), which was read by a generation of seminary students. Then, last year, Mr. Hays released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by recanting his earlier views and asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that...

13 January 2025 Monday of week 1 in Ordinary TimeSt. Hilary of Poitiers Catholic Church, Raceland, LAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHebrews 1:1-6God has spoken to us through his SonAt various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is. He is the radiant light of God’s glory and the perfect copy of his nature, sustaining the...