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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJanuary 15, 2023 “Ordinary Time” is simply the “in-between” season–the weeks outside of the big seasons of Christmas and
Friday of the Fourth Week of Advent December 23, 2022Daily Reading from the USCCB: Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24 The Book of Malachi is the last book
Saint of the Day Popular Catholic Patron Saints Where would we be, as people of faith, without saints and blesseds? These holy women and men are
St. Francis of Assisi was an activist, pacifist, and prophet. In our own small ways, we can mirror his revolutionary spirit.
The Catholic Project believes clergy and laity can work together to heal a US Church humiliated by the sex abuse scandals.
Today’s feast is about both two women and two men. The Blessed Virgin Mary goes to visit Elizabeth to assist her in her final days of pregnancy. But as she greets Elizabeth, the babe in Elizabeth’s womb—John the Baptist—leaps for joy at the presence of Jesus in Mary’s womb. Great mysteries of life are at play here.
“St. Francis is such a role model and is so important to our world today. The charisms that his life exemplified (poverty, contemplation, conversion, and minority) speak to me differently as I grow and change.”
Most likely the first of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark is brief and pointed. Saint Mark has one goal, to present Jesus as God’s crucified messiah, and he fulfills that goal concisely. Saint Mark’s Gospel seems to have been one of the sources used by Saints Matthew and Luke for their works.
Testimony to the authenticity of Jesus’ ministry is provided by the works that Jesus performs in the lives of individual Christians, as well as through the manifold action of the Church. There are plenty of grounds for believing in Jesus.
Be careful of birds landing on your head. That happened to Saint Fabian, and it was taken as a sign that he should be elected pope. So he was. And he served for 14 years until he was martyred in 250.
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