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EVANGELIUM VITAE April 28, 2024
To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious,
Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will
on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life.
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EVANGELIUM VITAE
To the Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Men and Women Religious, Lay Faithful, and all People of Good Will
on the Value...
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URBI ET ORBI - "PEACE BE WITH YOU!"
This is the greeting of the risen Christ, which has been echoed several times in our biblical readings during this Octave of Easter and in particular, in the Gospel of today’s liturgy. On Jesus’ lips this greeting...
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OUR LORD’S GREAT WORK March 31, 202
“This is the Day that the Lord has made,
let us rejoice and be glad in it!”
(Psalm. 117:24).
Easter is the high point of the Church’s year, towards...
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Holy Week 2024
Today we are launched into the drama of Holy Week. As we make our way in solemn procession, we bring into the present Our Lord’s entry into Jerusalem.
The Gospels bring us a detailed...
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FATHER! SAVE ME FROM MY SUFFERINGS
As we enter the final part of Lent, known as, “Passiontide”, in today’s passage from St. John’s Gospel we hear Our Lord’s prayer to His Father to be...
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"LAETARE!" (REJOICE!)
Today we rejoice! because Easter, the Feast of our Salvation, is drawing near.
Jerusalem, of which the Introit or Entrance Antiphon speaks, is the symbol on earth of our Mother, the Church, which is "God's...
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SPE SALVI—SAVED BY HOPE March 3, 2024
Benedict XVI wrote an encyclical letter entitled “Saved by Hope”, in 2007. He reminded us that of the three great theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, Hope is probably the least understood nowadays. Benedict saw the problem in...
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MY SON, THE CHOSEN ONE - LISTEN TO HIM
Christ is the Lord of glory as we hear in today's Gospel of the Transfiguration. At first sight it seems strange to hear this account in Lent, the season of austerity. Yet we must understand that it is an...
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A SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR JESUS
On the First Sunday of Lent, we hear each year one of the Gospel accounts of Our Lord’s temptations in the Wilderness. This year we hear that of St. Mark. St. Mark’s is the shortest Gospel...
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A LIFE WORTH LIVING
Lent is fast approaching: On Wednesday the holy season of Lent begins our long yearly journey towards Calvary and Easter. We call it a “journey” not only because it takes over seven weeks to complete, but because it...
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HEALER AND SAVIOUR
In today’s Gospel, St. Mark continues the account of our Lord’s healing work among the Galileans very early on in His public ministry. All that Jesus does: casting out the devil, making...
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THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE: “CANDLEMAS”
Friday is Candlemas Day, the final liturgical celebration of the Nativity cycle of feasts. St. Luke tells us how Our Lady and St. Joseph brought the forty-day old baby Jesus to the Temple in accordance with the requirements of...
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THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL
Thursday is the feast of this great event, in which Saul the Pharisee and fanatical persecutor of the Church was struck from his horse outside the gates of Damascus and heard a voice addressing him: “Saul, Saul, why are...
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THE LORD’S BAPTISM January 14, 2024
This public ministry is prepared for by Our Lord submitting to the baptism offered by his cousin, St John the Baptist. We celebrated the feast of the Lord’s baptism just this past Monday.
It...
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THE EPIPHANY January 7, 2024
The great Solemnity of the Epiphany or “Manifestation” of our Lord, commemorates so much more than the coming of the Magi, for we celebrate no fewer than three “wonders” on this...
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MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD January 1, 2024
Although we are used to thinking of Our Blessed Lady as the Mother of God, and honouring her as such, we must remember that there was a time in the history of the Church...
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REJOICE IN THE LORD!
In the Gospel John the Baptist continues to give witness to Christ by telling those sent to him by the Chief Priests that though he is not himself the Messiah (the “Christ” or the “Anointed One&rdquo...