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Hacksaw Ridge: A Film that Heals and Wounds
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Dec 21, 2016 at 12:00 am Jacob Bearer argues that Mel Gibson delivers something much more than a “morality play” in Hacksaw Ridge. He balances upon a tightrope in a way that so few directors can: He hits...
Daily Reflection — It is never too late for God’s Love
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:05 pm “In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of...
Reclaiming Christmas Magic
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:04 pm Sometimes in secret moments I lament that Christmas has lost its magic. When I was little—like most other kids I knew—Christmas and birthdays were high points of the year. ...
Daily Catholic Quote — O Antiphons: O Oriens
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:02 pm O Oriens: “O dawn of the east, radiance of light eternal, and sun of justice: come, and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death!” (Vespers for December 21st...
Sunday Soundbite for December 25, 2016
Franciscan Media - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm Nativity of the Lord – Christmas Day
Cycle A
December 25, 2016
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ssChristmas.mp3
I want to tell you a true story that...
O Oriens! Tonight we surrender what is dark within us
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm O Oriens, splendor lucis æternæ, et sol justitiæ: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis. O Dawn of the East, Brightness of the Light Eternal and Sun of Justice,...
3 Roads to Christmas: Monastic, Mexican and Filipino customs
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm In this Fourth Week of Advent – a full week this year, as Christmas Day falls on a Sunday – prayerful preparations for the Nativity are underway around the Catholic world. Here...
The real reason you get grumpy over the holidays — and 5 things you can do about it
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm Long lines everywhere, too much on the to-do list, the obligatory Christmas dinner with relatives who get on your nerves, and another Advent come and gone that you never quite got...
A rape victim’s Advent lessons
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm As a 20-year-old college senior, Ruth Everhart had been gang-raped at gun-point for hours. “Of course, I was traumatized,” she wrote in Friday’s Washington Post. “But what was...
How a Christian invented basketball and made it an evangelization tool
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm Faced with a group of restless young men snowed in at the International Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, physical education...
A “Silent Night” version even the Grinch in you would love
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm What happens when you bring together the best eight cellists in the United Kingdom in a 12th-century church, light a few candles and make them play a classic Christmas song? Well...
Still your hearts. Whatever happened to “silent” night?
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm To accompany you in this fourth week of Advent, The Vigil Project recently released their fourth Advent video, covering the classic “Silent Night,” featuring Catholic singer-...
Turkish town where St. Nicholas gave gifts is pilgrimage site for Russians
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm For the people who live in the Turkish town once known as Myra, it makes perfect sense. “It’s true that Saint Nicholas dropped gifts from the chimney,” said one resident, Okan...
God’s holy weapons against Satan, Part 3: The gift of priesthood
Aleteia - Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Don’t sacrifice for your children—you will only resent them for it!” So a boss told me, decades ago. If she’s right, what does that say about the priesthood of Christ and his...
Super cool Galileo gravity experiment
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm Super cool.
Galileo claimed that if there was no air, a cannonball and a feather would, if dropped, hit the ground at the same time. One of the Apollo astronauts did this...
Timothy Putnam and his family need our help
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:57 pm He’s one of my partners in crime at Breadbox Media and he and his family are having a tough Advent. He talks about what is happening here. Please click on the link, learn about...
Abortion Activists Sing Sacrilegious Christmas Carols: “Hark! The Nasty Women Sing, Glory to the Nuva Ring”
LifeNews.com - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:08 pm On December 17, a crowd of women gathered on the snow-covered grounds of New York City’s Trump International Hotel. Dressed in red choir gowns, they pulled out songbooks and began...
Obama signs bipartisan international religious freedom bill
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:06 pm President Barack Obama Dec. 16 signed the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, approved by the House Dec. 13.
Pope Francis to visit Fatima in May 2017
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:00 pm The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Portugal in 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions of Fatima.
