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Austrian bishop signs statement calling Pope’s reading of Amoris Laetitia ‘alien’ to Catholic faith
LifeSiteNews - Jan 6, 2018 at 1:12 pm Bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg, Austria, endorsed the 'Profession of Immutable Truths about Sacramental Marriage.'
St. Raymond of Peñafort, Patron of Canon Lawyers
Big C Catholics - Jan 6, 2018 at 1:02 pm (In 2017, this feast is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.) From 2017:December 7th is the optional memorial of Saint Raymond of Peñafort (1175-1275), a 13th century Dominican...
The Magi had the star, but we have a sign that’s just as bright
Aleteia - Jan 6, 2018 at 1:00 pm In the ancient world, an epiphaneia was a visible manifestation of a god or the solemn visit of a secular ruler to the cities of his realm. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of...
National Migration Week: A reminder of our duty to welcome the stranger
Franciscan Media - Jan 6, 2018 at 12:09 pm
Editors note: This is a Jan. 3 column titled “National Migration Week: A reminder of our duty to welcome the stranger” by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone from...
ASK FATHER: The “Ultima” chant
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 6, 2018 at 12:06 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
When my father died, about 11 years ago, the priest who offered his funeral Mass ended it by chanting what he called “the Ultima”. The priest who did it...
A floating podcast: Are evangelicals more confused than usual, these days? #REALLY
GetReligion - Jan 6, 2018 at 12:00 pm This week's "Crossroads" podcast is a bit different, for several reasons.
In the headline, I called this a "floating" podcast because, well, I phoned into the Lutheran Public...
WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: Liturgy should be “epiphany”, wherein we encounter transforming mystery.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 6, 2018 at 11:18 am
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that...
The Epiphany of the Lord
Big C Catholics - Jan 6, 2018 at 10:55 am Solemnity - January 7th Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Father Pius Parsch writes of this feast: "The Lord and ruler is coming; kingship is his, and [in...
Fr. Murray on the Buenos Aires Bishops and the Pope’s affirming Letter
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 6, 2018 at 10:41 am My good friend Fr. Gerald Murray has a helpful piece today at The Catholic Thing about the ongoing Amoris laetitia controversy. He offers some clarity about the interpretation by...
ASK FATHER: Are blessings, sacramentals from SSPX priests efficacious?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 6, 2018 at 10:25 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Are blessings made by SSPX priests efficacious? Like when they bless sacramentals, water, salt etc, are these really blessed?
Let’s see.
SSPX bishops...
It’s not too late to get to confession for Christmas
Aleteia - Jan 6, 2018 at 10:00 am "Don’t be afraid to ask for forgiveness ... look for a good confessor and do a thorough cleaning!"“Look for a good confessor and do a thorough cleaning!” This was Pope Francis’...
Praying Across Time
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 6, 2018 at 9:37 am In the Back to the Future movies, Doc Brown chides Marty McFly for not thinking fourth-dimensionally.
He means that Marty—like most of us—is letting his options be limited too...
Seeking direction in 2018? Check out the pope’s thought-provoking Epiphany homily
Aleteia - Jan 6, 2018 at 9:22 am We can also ask why, among all those who looked up at the heavens, so many others did not follow that star, “his star”Pope Francis today celebrated Mass for the Feast of the...
Epiphany
Communio - Jan 6, 2018 at 8:33 am “Stars cross the sky, wise men journey from pagan lands, earth receives its savior in a cave. Let there be no one without a gift to offer, no one without gratitude as we celebrate...
Guest Op-Ed: Epiphany reflections on the Christian vocation
Rorate Coeli - Jan 6, 2018 at 7:31 am By Veronica A. Arntz
The Gospels tell us very little
about the wise men, or the Magi, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh, who came from the East to worship the...
Francis, “Money and career are meteors bound to quickly burn out”
Vatican Insider - Jan 6, 2018 at 7:27 am “Seeing the star”, not the dazzling lights given by success, money, career, various pleasures. Some stars may be bright, but they do not point the way. So it is with success,...
Do you have a devotion to Our Lady of Cana?
Aleteia - Jan 6, 2018 at 7:00 am Devotion to Mary is not spiritual etiquette; it is a requirement of the Christian life.Looking toward the end of the first week of the new year I noticed a feast day that made me...
The Epiphany of the Lord 2018
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 6, 2018 at 6:34 am There are three precious gifts which the wise men offered to the Lord on this day, and they have within them divine mysteries: * in the gold, that the power of a King may be shown...
How can young adults change the world? Share the Gospel, FOCUS founder says
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 6, 2018 at 5:37 am Chicago, Ill., Jan 6, 2018 / 05:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- If young adults proclaim the Gospel with clarity and conviction, they can produce spiritual fruits that can reach billions...
