Homily for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) Off the awesome blue waters of the Sea of Tiberias, Our Lord came to the seashore. Walking along the seashore there was a person, and Our Lord met the person, gazing into his eyes, even kindly smiling. From that moment, the person...
While the Church counts the weeks of this Ordinary Time, we are immersed in extraordinary times in our country. The Covid pandemic rates continue to be catastrophically high, with death rates also at an all-time high. And in the meantime, we have witnessed the dramatic violence in our natio...
Ordinary Time ASurpass the Pharisees – Cut it Off!We so often condemn the Pharisees that we totally miss a sneaky way that we are often like them. The hard saying of Jesus "if you hand causes you to sin, cut it off" is a kind of shock therapy to wake us up......
Homegrown Integrity: October 30, 2011, Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Patricia Datchuck Sanchez Mal 1:14-2:2, 8-10; Ps 131; 1 Thes 2:7-9,13; Mt 23:1-12 Unlike... PD Sanchez - St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church Our Lady of Peace Roman Catholic ... 被引量: 0发表: 2012...
Traditionally, in the Roman Catholic Church, but in other Christian denominations as well, the distinction between ordinary (proportionate) and extraordinary (disproportionate) means of treatment has been regarded as a reliable method for deciding end-of-life issues. Today, this distinction plays still...
Cycle A liturgical readings for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2014: Ez 18:25-28; Ps 125; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21:28-32. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate. LE Frizzell 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 Hunger, Thirst for Justice SEPTEMBER 30, ...
“converts” have grown in warm feelings for the president. At the same time, the “skeptics” saw their support spike with the election and decline ever since. Now how many of those first two fall into the “5th avenue” level of support is unknown (5th avenue support meaning those ...
Outliers are likely to be inaccurate if there has been no fundamental change in the lay of the land to cause a shift in opinion. That’s not the case this time. I’ve often said that Trump can’t play it straight for more than a week or two, and this campaign was no exception. ...
Not everyone is convinced by such looks, perhaps because they aren’t thinking of an image as a snapshot of a single moment in time. But as the spanking goes on, open-mouthed dismay may turn to tearful distress, and then to outright pain, sometimes expressed with rictus mouth and screwed...
John lived in “interesting times.” He was born just three years before the cataclysm that was the French Revolution. In his earliest years he and his family worshipped in an underground Church not unlike the church of the catacombs of the early Christians. (See “The Anti-Catholic French ...