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Daily Readings for Sunday, January 08, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 7, 2017 at 4:01 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 42:1-4, Reading 1: Isaiah 42:6-7, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 29:1-4, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 29:9-10, Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17, ...
The Good Morning God Prayer: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, January 08, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 7, 2017 at 4:01 pm Good Morning God!
You are ushering in another day,
untouched and freshly new.
So here I am to ask you, God,
if You'll renew me too. ...
HBO’s ‘The Young Pope’ is a Sacrilegious Panoply of Anti-Catholic Tropes
Big C Catholics - Jan 7, 2017 at 3:54 pm The Young Pope is a ten episode English-language drama television series, directed by Paolo Sorrentino and featuring Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, who, at 47, becomes the youngest...
“Learn to love as I love thee.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2017 at 3:33 pm Real Epiphany was on 6 January. In the traditional calendar, however, we are in the Season of Epiphany. Hence, I’ll go on talking about Epiphany for a while.
At one of the blogs...
Saint Lucian of Antioch, Martyr
Regina Magazine - Jan 7, 2017 at 3:00 pm January 7 Today is the feast day of Saint Lucian. Ora pro nobis. Saint Lucian was born at Samosata in Syria. Having lost his parents in his youth, he distributed to the poor all...
For the Record: Mexican Archbishop orders Last Gospel read in all Sunday Novus Ordo Masses
Rorate Coeli - Jan 7, 2017 at 2:33 pm So, while the "Reform of the Reform" is dead for the universal Church, some particular churches (and no only parishes) may be moving ahead with bringing some elements of Roman...
OLDIE POST: What was the Star of Bethlehem?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2017 at 2:16 pm
In the older, traditional calendar, and in the tradition of both East and West from the earliest days, Friday 6 January was Epiphany. However, we are now in the time after...
UPDATE: News about Philip Johnson… GOOD news!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2017 at 1:29 pm As long ago as 2011 I’ve been praying for Philip Johnson, with a brain tumor and who underwent pretty horrible treatment. Philip was a seminarian of the Diocese of Raleigh.
He ...
Philip Johnson Ordained in Raleigh, North Carolina
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 7, 2017 at 1:29 pm We are very happy indeed to report that Deacon Philip Johnson of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, has just been ordained to the priesthood today. I am sure that a great...
Architect of Steubenville's Catholic revival dies at 85
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 7, 2017 at 12:56 pm Steubenville, Ohio, Jan 7, 2017 / 12:56 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, the former president and chancellor of Franciscan University of Steubenville, passed away...
Reflection for the Epiphany of the Lord
CatholicMom.com - Jan 7, 2017 at 12:30 pm
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Readings for January 8, 2017:...
Is this a conspiracy theory?
Commonweal - Jan 7, 2017 at 11:57 am This morning reading the newspaper I continued to wonder why Trump doesn't just say OK to Clapper, Brennan, Comey & Co., and their claims of Russian hacking. As Trumps often...
Architect of Steubenville's Catholic revival dies at 85
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 7, 2017 at 11:56 am Steubenville, Ohio, Jan 7, 2017 / 10:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, the former president and chancellor of Franciscan University of Steubenville, passed away...
Final 2016 yearenders: The Atlantic on religion and politics; RNS mourns sad, sad, tragic year
GetReligion - Jan 7, 2017 at 10:55 am Did you know that, when it comes to religion and public life, there were both winners and losers in the year 2016?
Honest. There were.
Even with the wailing an gnashing of teeth...
Fr. Michael Scanlan, president emeritus of Franciscan University of Steubenville, dies
Aleteia - Jan 7, 2017 at 10:54 am Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, who transformed Franciscan University from a struggling regional college into a world-renowned leader in Catholic higher education, and helped to...
Tainted Wells
Commonweal - Jan 7, 2017 at 9:51 am In the very dim halls of my high school memories, I remember a Jesuit giving us a lecture about critical thinking. Critical thinking had two objects. The first was to understand...
Fr. Michael Scanlan, RIP
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 7, 2017 at 9:36 am Fr. Michael Scanlan died this morning. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. He, more than anybody else, made...
Your Real Epiphany Sermon Notes – PHOTOS
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2017 at 8:45 am Last night, 6 January, we celebrated real Epiphany with a Solemn Mass. At the beginning we blessed chalk as well as gold, frankincense and myrrh. I also sang the Noveritis.
Was...
If “2+2” can equal “5” in theology, then it can also equal “9” and “catfish”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2017 at 8:27 am The other day, Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro, who associates himself very closely with the Holy Father, tweeted this:
Antics like Cameli’s [HERE] can only be topped by Jesuit Fr....
Three Kings Day and the Gifts of The Magi
CatholicMom.com - Jan 7, 2017 at 7:30 am Copyright 2017 Kimberly Cook. All rights reserved.
For weeks before December 24th we begin to feel the spirit of Christmas rise up within us. For some this is a lovely time of...
