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Sharing the Word for October 14, 2017
Franciscan Media - Oct 14, 2017 at 12:00 am Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
October 14, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Joel 4:12-21
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The King’s Wedding Feast—Invitation Declined
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:04 pm Why would people decline a royal invitation to a wedding feast fit for a king? This parable of Jesus describes a situation we see around us everyday—pervasive apathy in the face...
5 Things this priest learned from his dog (VIDEO)
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Fr. Bill Byrne talks about the life and spiritual lessons he’s learned from his dog Roo.What can a dog teach a priest about love and God? Quite a bit, according to the Archdiocese...
How ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is strangely pro-life
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm It's not a stretch to interpret the new film's message as one that affirms human dignity.Few would call Hollywood a bastion of traditional Christian values, and it’s certainly not...
Father Tom Uzhunnalil celebrates Mass
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: October 14, 2017Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted and held prisoner by terrorists for 18 months after an attack on a Home for the Aged run by missionaries...
HHS draft plan recognizes that life begins at conception
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm A proposed revision of the Department of Health and Human Services' strategy statement also speaks of "natural death" at end of life.The unborn are people too. That’s according to...
Do you need to find God today? Try this prayer from St. Anselm
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Teach me to seek you, for I cannot seek you unless you teach me ...There are many times in life when we can feel that God is distant, seemingly deaf to our prayer. We echo the...
An open letter to people who pester their friends with prayer intentions
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Sometimes your request is for something tiny. Sometimes it’s crushingly large.You know who you are. Do you sometimes worry that you’re annoying people with your constant, casual...
Bishop Barron: What is happening at Mass?
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm It is an encounter with the real flesh and blood person of Christ Jesus, and it's also a dialogue, a prayer and a play.As many Catholics know, the Second Vatican Council famously...
Why “nesting” and “hygge” are more than just trends
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Despite the clicky terms, this concepts is nothing new and something we all need.Today’s social media culture loves giving trendy names to things people have actually been doing...
Five-second choices that can change our world
The Catholic Leader - Oct 13, 2017 at 8:55 pm I AM led to believe that Edmund Hillary was within a couple of hundred metres of the summit of Mt Everest when he and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were confronted by a vertical rock wall...
Mission Education Day
Cardinal Seán's Blog - Oct 13, 2017 at 8:05 pm Hello and welcome!
Wednesday we had our board meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the archdiocese. We heard some very encouraging reports about all their activities....
Calling All Catholics: 1P5 Needs You!
OnePeterFive - Oct 13, 2017 at 7:42 pm I was just looking at our website statistics. Admittedly, this is a pretty nerdy thing to do…but it’s part of my job. In just the past 30 days, 1P5 has had nearly 700,000...
“Together Around the Table”: German Catholic Initiative Invites Protestants to Communion
OnePeterFive - Oct 13, 2017 at 6:46 pm Catholic Initiative in Germany invites Protestants to Communion; lay witnesses call it “heresy”
Ecumenism has gone wrong one more time in Germany and has escalated into denial of...
A child “prodigy” performs Mozart live
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm Alexandre Morrissey made it to the finals of the French TV show 'Prodigies.' In 2016, Alexandre Morrissey made it all the way to the finals of the French Idol-style television...
Liturgical Splendor and the Image of God (Part 1): Guest Article by Zachary Thomas
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 13, 2017 at 5:16 pm Once again, we are very grateful to Mr Zachary Thomas for another fine essay on liturgical theology.Christians believe that God created man and woman in his image, capable of...
A quick guide to drinking tea … and unlocking its dozens of health benefits
Aleteia - Oct 13, 2017 at 5:00 pm It’s both more popular and better for you than any soft drink.Tea is more than just another drink you prepare to consume with breakfast or to sip in the afternoon with friends;...
Google Honors Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards as a “Modern-Day Hero”
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:58 pm The internet Goliath Google is showing its pro-abortion bias again.
On Thursday, it sponsored an event honoring Cecile Richards, the highly paid CEO of the Planned Parenthood...
Abortion Activist: “Abortion is a Moral Choice That Affirms a Woman as an Autonomous Human Being”
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:55 pm Regular readers of NRL News Today are fully aware of how prominent is the agitator role of the pro-abortion to the gills Irish Times. It works ceaselessly to undermine Ireland’s...
Rural Parish Workers' medical clinic a continuation of commitment to serve the poor
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:26 pm
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The past, present and future came together nicely at the annual Fashion Show and...
