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Epiphanies: A Reflection for the Epiphany of the Lord, Year B
Big C Catholics - Dec 31, 2017 at 1:04 pm By Fr. René J. Butler, M.S.Provincial Superior, La Salette Missionaries of North America(Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-6; Matthew 2:1-12)For Christians, the word Epiphany has a...
New Year 2018 | Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Big C Catholics - Dec 31, 2017 at 12:33 pm January 1, 2018 On this day the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, our Lady's greatest title. This feast is the octave of Christmas....
Homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, January 7, 2018, Year B
Big C Catholics - Dec 31, 2017 at 12:12 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)In today’s scripture passages the language is epic, the imagery apocalyptic, the action dramatic....
Top 10 Spiritual Resolutions for 2018
Catholic Hot Dish - Dec 31, 2017 at 12:11 pm It is the start of the New Year and we may or may not have made our New Year Resolutions. Many people make resolutions to lose weight, exercise or save money, but what about our...
Our response to the gift of Jesus? – 'Thank you,' Pope says New Year's Eve
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 31, 2017 at 11:20 am Vatican City, Dec 31, 2017 / 11:20 am (EWTN News/CNA).- At Vespers for the close of 2017, Pope Francis said that the only
adequate response to God's gift of His Son Jesus is one...
What five religion-news stories truly impressed you in 2017? It's time to praise them!
GetReligion - Dec 31, 2017 at 11:11 am
Attention serious GetReligion readers!
You know who you are. You may be Catholic, Baptist, atheist, Eastern Orthodox, Mormon, Anglican or nothing in particular. Oh, and Lutherans...
Our response to the gift of Jesus? – ‘Thank you,’ Pope says New Year’s Eve
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 31, 2017 at 10:20 am Vatican City, Dec 31, 2017 / 09:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At Vespers for the close of 2017, Pope Francis said that the only adequate response to God’s gift of His Son Jesus is one...
Top Posts of 2017 | Feminine Genius Edition
Big C Catholics - Dec 31, 2017 at 9:52 am In his 1995 letter to women, Mulieris Dignitatem, Pope Saint John Paul II makes reference to the unique characteristics of women as the feminine genius. Indeed, the creation of...
Nine Days of Prayer for Family Unity with Venerable Patrick Peyton begins tomorrow!
CatholicMom.com - Dec 31, 2017 at 9:00 am Image courtesy of Holy Cross Family Ministries. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
We enter this new year filled with deep joy and gratitude.
First, we have just taken in...
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, January 1, 2018, Year B
Big C Catholics - Dec 31, 2017 at 8:45 am Fr. Simon Francis Gaine O.P.Regent of Studies, English Province of the DominicansProfessor of Theology, Blackfriars Oxford, UK(Click here for today’s readings)Today’s Gospel takes...
Tonsure, Minor Orders and Subdiaconal Ordination in Fréjus-Toulon
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 31, 2017 at 7:06 am We interrupt our regularly scheduled Christmas photoposts (which will resume tomorrow) to bring you some photographs from our good friends of the Fraternity of St Joseph the...
The Feast of the Circumcision 2018
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 31, 2017 at 7:00 am He that is cut off (circumcisus) from the vices is deemed worthy of the vision of God, for the eyes of the Lord are upon the just. (Ps. 33, 16) You see that all the course of the...
Pope prays that attackers of Egypt’s Christians will turn away from violence
Vatican Insider - Dec 31, 2017 at 6:03 am Pope Francis has prayed that God will “convert the hearts” of terrorists following two attacks on Egypt’s Christians which left nine dead. ...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Dec 31, 2017 at 6:00 am In Smith v. Murphy, 2017 Conn. Super. LEXIS 4974 (CT Super., Nov. 28, 2017), a Connecticut trial court dismissed an inmate's complaints that his religious oils and his gold chain...
Background: papal message for January 1, the World Day of Peace (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 31, 2017 at 5:12 am On January 1, the Church commemorates the 51st World Day of Peace. Pope Francis’s message for the day, released November 24, is devoted to “Migrants and refugees: men and women in...
Bishop Bransfield dedicates altar at renovated West Virginia basilica
Franciscan Media - Dec 31, 2017 at 5:00 am CHARLESTON, W.Va. (CNS) — Bishop Michael J. Bransfield dedicated a new altar and blessed the renovated sanctuary at the Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in...
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Aleteia - Dec 31, 2017 at 3:00 am Charles Dickens
CHRISTMASCAzT 2017 29: Family in charity, not diversity, tolerance, inclusivity, sensitivity, choice …
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 31, 2017 at 12:01 am
Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 29, for Sunday in the Octave of Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Family in the Ordinary Form calendar.
Sister Lucia, the long-lived seer at Fatima, told the...
Pope shares image of atomic bomb victims on eve of 2018
Catholic Herald - Dec 30, 2017 at 11:51 pm Pope Francis has asked for a shocking image of young atomic bomb victims to be distributed on the eve of 2018. The photograph shows a Japanese boy carrying his dead brother on his...
What You Can Learn from the Holy Family
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 30, 2017 at 11:04 pm The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates the holiness and joy of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph of Nazareth. Each year, this celebration occurs on the Sunday following...
