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Month: February 2020

Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3

Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants.
He was mounted on a mule,
and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth,
his hair caught fast in the tree.
He hung between heaven a…

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3

Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants.
He was mounted on a mule,
and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth,
his hair caught fast in the tree.
He hung between heaven a…

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On Sport and Sacrifice

The Feast of the Presentation recalls the old man Simeon chanting thanks for having lived to see the Messiah. His Nunc Dimittis—“Let thy servant depart in peace”—is part of the Church’s evening prayers. In 542 in Constantinople, the Emperor Justinian placed it into the Eastern Liturgy. This year the Feast fell on Super Bowl Sunday. […]

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How a Thief in Lourdes Taught Me a Lesson on Repentance

How a Thief in Lourdes Taught Me a Lesson on Repentance“Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners?” — Our Lady of Fatima I try to visit Lourdes once a year to spend time in prayer with Jesus and Mary. During my week-long visits, I […]

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What Jesus Did Not Say About Hell

Michael Pakaluk: The evidence says the Lord taught that unrepented sin leads to eternal damnation. So, if Hell is invented, it must be Jesus who created it.

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