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The Banner of the Five Wounds
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 15, 2017 at 9:25 am Fr. Hunwicke has brought us the news that the mighty Banner of the Five Wounds – beloved of Catholics and hated by their Protestant persecutors – again flies free. He posted that...
Supermom's Kryptonite and the Mothering Games [Getting Past Perfect Book Club: Chapters 3-4]
CatholicMom.com - Apr 15, 2017 at 9:00 am Welcome to the Getting Past Perfect Book Club! We’re reading Getting Past Perfect: How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood, by Kate Wicker.
Take a five-minute...
O Crux Ave
Dominicana - Apr 15, 2017 at 8:30 am Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Fr. Leo Checkai was ordained a priest in May 2014 and now teaches at Providence College....
Pope Francis: remarks at Good Friday Via crucis
News.va - Apr 15, 2017 at 8:15 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over the Via crucis at the Colosseum in Rome on the evening of Good Friday. In keeping with tradition, he briefly addressed the faithful...
Prayer of Pope Francis on Good Friday
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 8:12 am “O Christ, our only Savior, we return to you this year with eyes lowered in shame, and with hearts filled with hope.”VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis delivered a strong message at the...
Hot Milk Easter Cake
CatholicMom.com - Apr 15, 2017 at 7:00 am Copyright 2017 Barbara Stein. All rights reserved.
This cake is one of my favorite cakes holding some of my favorite memories. This cake is the cake that my grandma made every...
The Holy Week I really walked the Way of the Cross
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 7:00 am I'd never lived a Resurrection Day like that one.In 2002, I spent a week in the hospital. It happened to be Holy Week. It was the first time I ever “got,” even for a moment, how...
What We May Learn from Christ's Descent into Hell ( St. Thomas)
Rorate Coeli - Apr 15, 2017 at 6:07 am From the descent of Christ to hell we may learn, for our instruction, four things:
1. Firm hope in God. No matter what the trouble in which a man finds himself, he should always...
Bach’s St. John Passion: A living masterpiece of Christian heritage
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 6:00 am Listen to the Bach Collegium of Japan, conducted by the legendary Masaaki Suzuki.Bach’s Passio secundum Joannem (“St. John Passion”) was composed and premiered in 1724 at the Good...
Study finds religious persecution spread to more countries in 2015
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:01 am Washington D.C., Apr 15, 2017 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Global religious persecution spiked from 2014 to 2015, the Pew Research Center noted in a new report released this week.
Study finds religious persecution spread to more countries in 2015
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:01 am Washington D.C., Apr 15, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Global religious persecution spiked from 2014 to 2015, the Pew Research Center noted in a new report released this week...
Holy Week Around the World: Bearing light in Beijing
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 4:00 am Photo of the Day, April 15, 2017HOLY WEEK AROUND THE WORLD – China BEIJING: Chinese Catholic choir girls hold candles during an Easter Vigil service at the Cathedral of the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 15, 2017 - Holy Saturday
CatholicMom.com - Apr 15, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 28:1-10 – Holy Saturday (at the Easter Vigil)
My dearest brothers and sisters, Jesus is dead. But death is never the end; we know through the accounts this...
After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven.
Aleteia - Apr 15, 2017 at 3:00 am Hebrews 1:3
Christ renews a weary humanity, Pope Francis says at Easter Vigil
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 15, 2017 at 2:46 am Vatican City, Apr 15, 2017 / 02:46 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- During Easter Vigil at the Vatican Pope Francis noted that many people
today mirror the sadness and grief of the women who...
Holy Saturday 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Apr 15, 2017 at 1:03 am Weep not over me, Mother, as Thou beholdest me in the tomb, Thy Son whom Thou didst conceive in the womb without seed; for I shall rise and be glorified, and as God, shall...
Syrian nun awarded by US will back any leader who brings peace
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 15, 2017 at 1:01 am Rome, Italy, Apr 15, 2017 / 01:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- 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...
LENTCAzT 2017 46 – Holy Saturday: The Paschal Candle
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 15, 2017 at 12:01 am
Today is Holy Saturday.
There is no Mass during the day, so there is no Roman Station for the day. For the Vigil of Easter the Station is St John Lateran.
Go to church! ...
We Do Not Face Death Alone
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 14, 2017 at 11:04 pm The serpent’s bite was a deadly one. The venom had worked its way deep into the heart of the entire human race, doing its gruesome work. The anti-venom was unavailable until He...
How the Weakness of the Cross Makes Us Strong
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 14, 2017 at 11:03 pm “When I am weak, then I am strong”; “power made perfect in weakness.” Such verses are often cited as key to spiritual growth, but do we really understand what they are talking...
