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Life is an Advent Search for God: The Importance of Effort
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 27, 2016 at 12:00 am Advent is about seeking God, the most noble of all pursuits.
Nevertheless, such a pursuit is one in which we are engaged each day,
not merely ...
The Road to Gratitude
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 27, 2016 at 12:00 am I don't know about you, but sometimes I get a little anxious when things don't run smoothly or as expected. Other times, I am even overwhelmed by a ...
'Everyone feels it' - Fidel Castro's death prompts some to celebrate in the streets while others mourn
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 27, 2016 at 12:00 am A national 9-day mourning period began Saturday when Cuba awoke to news of Fidel Castro's passing.
Final gift to a dying man - Dictator Fidel Castro receives gift 10 days before death
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 27, 2016 at 12:00 am Just ten days before the former leader of Cuba was pronounced dead, he met with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and received a special gift.
Therefore, stay awake!
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:04 pm “Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come” (Matthew 24:42). This verse is part of a larger passage (Matthew 24:1 — 25:30) where Jesus speaks...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Saint John Paul II
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Much remains to be done to support those whose lives are wounded and to restore hope to those who are afraid of life. Courage is needed to resist pressures and false slogans, to...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 145:1
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “I will extol thee, my God and King, and bless thy name for ever and ever.” (Psalm 145:9 RSVCE) Print this entry
After Fidel: What’s next for human rights in Cuba?
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm An improvement in the human rights landscape will take place in post-Fidel Cuba, but it will take a while. So said several experts in the wake of Castro’s death Friday at the age...
Repentance isn’t about you
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm I cannot think of him in any other way except as “Old” John the Baptizer. But he was only in his early 30s at the outside, a bare six months older than his cousin, Jesus. But he...
The cross Mother Teresa loved and carried with her
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm It’s not too easy to see, but the official canonization portrait of Mother Teresa depicts what’s known as the “unity cross” on her rosary. The unity cross is linked to the...
The Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for December 2016
Big C Catholics - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm Please remember the Holy Father Pope Francis' intentions in prayer through the month of December:Universal: End to Child-SoldiersThat the scandal of child-soldiers may be...
An Advent welcome: Draw near to God, and surrender to the quiet
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm As I live, says the Lord, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but rather in the wicked man’s conversion, that he may live. Turn, turn from your evil ways!...
12 Things to be more mindful this Advent
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2016 at 11:00 pm So we have 28 days to prepare for Christmas. I’ve written at other times on the spiritual gift of silence and the blessed waiting we’re supposed to cultivate during this season of...
Travel Log: Southern Tier Section 7
Rambles - Nov 26, 2016 at 10:55 pm
Now that it gets dark at 5 o'clock and it's colder outside, I found myself working on old travel logs from bike trips. It took me nearly three years to get these ones typed up,...
Advent and Thanksgiving
SQPN - Podcast Network - Nov 26, 2016 at 10:44 pm
Week Ending November 26, 2016 While our American Trideo friends were preparing for and then feasting for Thanksgiving, we were hard at work preparing and releasing another trove...
Saint John Berchmans
Regina Magazine - Nov 26, 2016 at 7:27 pm November 26 Today is the feast day of Saint John Berchmans. Ora pro nobis. St. John Berchmans was born the eldest son of a shoemaker in 1599 at Diest, Belgium. At a very young...
Saint Peter of Alexandria, Bishop and Martyr
Regina Magazine - Nov 26, 2016 at 4:40 pm November 26 Today is the feast day of Saint Peter of Alexander. Ora pro nobis. St. Peter, the successor of St. Theonas in the See of Alexandria, was, by his learning and holiness...
Kolvenbach dies at 87
Communio - Nov 26, 2016 at 4:40 pm Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, the 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, led the worldwide Jesuits from September 13, 1983 to 2008, and who voluntarily resigned, died on...
St. James Intercisus: Saint of the Day for Sunday, November 27, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 26, 2016 at 4:01 pm James was a favorite of King Yezdigerd I of Persia and a Christian. He abandoned his religion when Yesdigerd launched a persecution of the ...
Prayer to Saint Anthony of Padua: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, November 27, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 26, 2016 at 4:01 pm "Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints"
O Holy Saint Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His creatures, made ...
