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WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: circumventing God’s plan

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 23, 2017 at 2:58 pm
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the...

Prayer for Travelers: Prayer of the Day for Monday, July 24, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 23, 2017 at 2:25 pm
O God, Who did cause the children of Israel to traverse the Red Sea dryshod; Thou Who did point out by a star to the Magi the road that led them ...

Daily Readings for Monday, July 24, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 23, 2017 at 2:25 pm
Reading 1: Exodus 14:5-18, Responsorial Psalm: Exodus 15:1-6, Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42

Saint Charbel Makhlouf, Lebanese Priest and Mystic

Big C Catholics - Jul 23, 2017 at 1:25 pm
July 24th is the optional memorial of Saint Charbel Makhlouf. He was born in the mountain village of Biqa-Kafra, Lebanon, the fifth child of a poor Maronite Family on May 8, 1828...

WDTPRS – 16th Ordinary Sunday: You are being hunted by the Enemy

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 23, 2017 at 12:55 pm
The Collect for the 16th Ordinary Sunday is not in any pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum.  It has its antecedent in a 9th century manuscript.  Enjoy the fine clausula (rhythmic ending...

Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 30, 2017, Year A

Big C Catholics - Jul 23, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)The Kingdom of God, always somewhat mysterious for us, was always on the mind of Jesus. There are...

A Novel Gift: Until Lily, Chapter 14

CatholicMom.com - Jul 23, 2017 at 11:00 am
We’re excited to bring this novel by CatholicMom.com contributing author Sherry Boas to our readers, one chapter at a time. This is the final chapter of Until Lily. We thank...

'Evangelical' is not a political word? Since when, in the minds of political elites?

GetReligion - Jul 23, 2017 at 11:00 am
Please trust me on this. If you were a journalism graduate student in the early 1980s -- especially someone like me who already had worked through two degrees combining history,...

Prayer Before the Reading of the Gospel from the Orthodox Divine Liturgy

Big C Catholics - Jul 23, 2017 at 10:35 am
The following eloquent commentary on the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ is from Orthodox priest Fr. Lawrence Farley’s, Let Us Attend: A Journey Through the Orthodox Divine...

Deaths in smuggler's truck 'completely senseless,' Texas archbishop says

EWTN - US Latest News - Jul 23, 2017 at 10:26 am
San Antonio, Texas, Jul 23, 2017 / 10:26 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The deaths of at least nine people due to heat in an alleged immigrant smuggler's truck parked in San Antonio are an...

Everyone Keeps Missing the BIG Question About Doctor Who

Jimmy Akin.org - Jul 23, 2017 at 10:00 am
In the wake of the 13th Doctor announcement, everyone is focused on the fact the next Doctor will be a woman. But the TARDIS also has changed it’s appearance (note the St. John’s...

Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

Regina Magazine - Jul 23, 2017 at 8:59 am
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost by Fr. Francis Xaveir Weninger, 1877 “By their fruits you shall know them.”–Matt. 7.   The world is full of deception, and this deception is the...

Pope calls for “moderation and dialogue” in Jerusalem 

Vatican Insider - Jul 23, 2017 at 8:35 am
At the Angelus prayer, Francis calls for peace in Jerusalem and says he is following, "with trepidation the grave tensions and violence of the last days in Jerusalem” along with “...

Angelus: Pope appeals for dialogue after Jerusalem violence

News.va - Jul 23, 2017 at 7:41 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appealed for moderation and dialogue after a surge of violence and killings over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Addressing the crowds gathered in St....

Feel like an outcast? This saint can relate

Aleteia - Jul 23, 2017 at 7:00 am
St. Damien de Veuster knew what it was like to be on the fringes of society. Jozef De Veuster grew up on a farm in Belgium and was expected to take over the family business....

Your Sunday Sermon Notes

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 23, 2017 at 6:53 am
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard during the Holy Mass in fulfillment your of Sunday Obligation? Let us know.

Pope: the choice between good, evil is one we all have to make

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 23, 2017 at 6:07 am
Vatican City, Jul 23, 2017 / 05:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said good and evil are often entwined, and that as sinners, we can't label any one group or...

Pope: the choice between good, evil is one we all have to make

EWTN - Vatican News - Jul 23, 2017 at 6:07 am
Vatican City, Jul 23, 2017 / 06:07 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Sunday Pope Francis said good and evil are often entwined, and that as sinners, we can't label any one group or...

Do Dogs Go to Heaven? And More!

Jimmy Akin.org - Jul 23, 2017 at 6:00 am
In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (July 11, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions: 0:15 What are some of Cy’s favorite books? 2:30 What’s significant...

This boy invited Pope Francis on a pilgrimage – and here's how he responded

EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 23, 2017 at 5:57 am
Loreto, Italy, Jul 23, 2017 / 05:57 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Nine-year-old Andrea is an Italian boy who joined 130 children last month for a "Pilgrimage of Joy" to the Marian Shrine...
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