What to do in the face of evil
In today’s first reading, we hear the prayer of the exiled people in Babylon. Recognizing...
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Tag: repentance
Your Daily Bible Verses — Luke 15:10
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the...
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A Practical Plan for Advent 2020
If we lose our focus on the Lord, neither his coming in past history, nor his coming at the end of...
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The Time is Short
“St. Jerome Writing” (detail) by Caravaggio I know it is customary during the Lenten...
Read MoreFast Before Feast
Christmas is a joyous celebration of the birth of Peace. So why does the Church precede the feast of December 25 with a somber season of fast, penance and repentance? A meditation for Advent… The Mass readings for the...
Read MoreDaily Quote — from Saint John Paul II
“The essential act of penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to commit it again, out of love which one has for God and which is...
Read MoreDaily Reflection — A Pure Heart Create for Me, O God
“A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51). Fridays are penitential days for Catholics. Just as we celebrate His Resurrection each Sunday, we recall that it was on a Friday that our Lord...
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Daily Reflection — Love of one’s Neighbor
“He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor” (St. Bede the...
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A Practical Plan for Advent
“But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only...
Read MoreDaily Catholic Quote — from Pope St. John Paul II
“The essential act of penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to commit it again, out of love which one has for God and which is...
Read MoreDaily Reflection — Create in Us a New Heart
Fridays are penitential days. Just as we celebrate His Resurrection each Sunday, we recall that it was on a Friday that our Lord suffered His crucifixion, dying on the Cross for each of us. On Fridays, we perform some act of...
Read MoreDaily Catholic Quote — from Saint John Paul II
“The essential act of penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to commit it again, out of love which one has for God and which is...
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