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“Let’s look ahead, we are pebbles with a purpose in life”
Vatican Insider - Apr 15, 2017 at 5:04 pm "We are pebbles on the ground in this land of pain, tragedy, but with faith in the risen Christ we have a purpose, in the midst of so many calamities, we can look ahead. Look...
Pope urges Catholics to ‘break down the walls of sterile pessimism’ at Easter Vigil
Catholic Herald - Apr 15, 2017 at 5:03 pm Pope Francis has denounced how migrants, the poor and marginalised see their “human dignity crucified” every day through injustice and corruption, and urged the faithful in an...
Sorrowful Mother
Communio - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:41 pm
“Do not lament me, O Mother, seeing me in the tomb, the Son conceived in the womb without seed, for I shall arise and be glorified with eternal glory as God. I shall exalt all...
The Last Days of Jesus
Jimmy Akin.org - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:39 pm In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (April 14, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:
1:10 What was happening at the Triumphal Entry?
4:50 What is happening...
Divine Mercy Novena 2017 | Day 3
Big C Catholics - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:01 pm April 16, 2017On this third day of the Divine Mercy Novena, we pray for the souls of all devout and faithful souls. Christ told Saint Faustina, "Today bring to Me the souls of all...
Raise your eyes to the gaze of Jesus Christ
The Catholic Leader - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm “CHOOSE Life”. Those were the words, which the readings at Mass addressed to us the day after Ash Wednesday, taken as they were from Moses’ lengthy exhortation to the people of...
“This night calls us to proclaim: Christ is alive!” Pope Francis’ homily at Easter Vigil
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 3:16 pm “Can Love have truly died?”VATICAN CITY — This evening at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated the Easter Vigil liturgy commemorating the most solemn feast of the...
Christ renews a weary humanity, Pope Francis says at Easter Vigil
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 15, 2017 at 2:46 pm Vatican City, Apr 15, 2017 / 01:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During Easter Vigil at the Vatican Pope Francis noted that many people today mirror the sadness and grief of the women who...
Daily Readings for Sunday, April 16, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 15, 2017 at 2:10 pm Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 10:34, Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 10:37-43, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 118:22-23, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 118:1-2, ...
Prayer for our Family #1: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, April 16, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 15, 2017 at 2:10 pm Blessed are you, loving Father,
Ruler of the universe:
You have given us Your Son as Your Leader,
And have made us temples of Your Holy ...
Syrian nun awarded by US will back any leader who brings peace
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 15, 2017 at 1:01 pm Rome, Italy, Apr 15, 2017 / 12:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the conflict in Syria rages on, a Salesian nun honored by the White House as a “Woman of Courage” said that no matter who...
When words fail: The only way to celebrate Easter is to LIVE Christ
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm "Unless something very real indeed took place on that strange, confused morning, there would be no New Testament, no Church, no Christianity." The angel said to the women in...
Reflection for Easter Sunday
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Readings for April 16, 2017: Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of the Lord
Reflection on #...
Ah, those mysterious Protestant Evangelicals, as pondered by our cultural elites
GetReligion - Apr 15, 2017 at 12:20 pm
Just when you thought you’d seen enough analysis of those U.S. Protestant Evangelicals to last a lifetime or two, a major April release is commanding yet more ink: “The...
Flowers from Japan now in Oregon
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 15, 2017 at 12:00 pm Flowers and Easter. The two just naturally go together.
A legend, dating to at least the Middle Ages, says that St. Thomas — never shaking the title of “Doubter” — would not...
Easter 2017 | He is risen. Alleluia!
Big C Catholics - Apr 15, 2017 at 11:30 am Easter Sunday - April 16, 2017The Resurrection of Jesus"Why do you seek the living one among the dead?He is not here, but he has been raised." At daybreak on the first day of the...
Homily for Easter, April 16, 2014, Year A
Big C Catholics - Apr 15, 2017 at 11:00 am Fr. René J. Butler, M.S.Provincial Superior, La Salette Missionaries of North AmericaHartford, Connecticut(Note: This homily is based on the readings for the Easter Vigil. The Old...
Holy Saturday
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 15, 2017 at 10:34 am Photo: Andrea Mantegna [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies...
Holy Saturday
Regina Magazine - Apr 15, 2017 at 9:53 am Today is Holy Saturday. by Abbot Gueranger The Easter Vigil It was the practice of the Church, and one that had been handed down from the earliest ages, that the Holy Sacrifice of...
Good Friday 3 April AD 33 – Eclipses as Christ died on the Cross
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 15, 2017 at 9:53 am This is definitely worth reposting.
The fellow who made the video about the Star of Bethlehem (a compelling argument, I might add), also did some research about what happened in...
