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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Crucifixion, Dietrich Bonheoffer, Jesus Christ, Judas, News, Origen, Palm Sunday, Pontius Pilate, The Dispatch |
Readings: • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Catholic Church, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Holy Week, lead, News |
As England prepares to celebrate Holy Week, the secretary of the bishops’ conference liturgy office says the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is making everyone “aware now that they are in this together.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, prison ministry, Prisoners, Prisons |
As the COVID-19 pandemic surges across Brazil, the Bishops’ Conference’s Prison Pastoral Commission is urging the country’s authorities to take critical measures to avoid a massive contamination in the already chaotic Brazilian prison system, including the release of detainees.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Beethoven, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dominicans, Father Paul Murray, Father Teilhard de Chardin, Interviews, lead, News, On Spirituality, Plague, Prayer, quarantine |
Dominican Father Paul Murray is one of English-language Catholicism’s most prominent contemporary theologians and poets, and he reflects on the spiritual significance and fall out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Charlton Heston’s “The Private War of Major Benson” – Joseph Sciambra at Sons of St. Joseph +1
If a Priest Keeps Hearing Confessions, Contracts Virus, & Dies, is He a Martyr? – Fr. Z’s…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Ezekiel, Jesus, John 11:45-56, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Session of the Sanhedrin, Sr. Chris Koellhoffer IHM, ST. ÓSCAR ROMERO, Sunday Gospel Reflections |
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will multiply them and put my sanctuary among them forever. (Ezekiel 37:26) On the floor at the rear of a church in San Salvador is a plaque memorializing an ev…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Daily Readings, News, St. Isidore of Seville |
St. Isidore of Seville Readings: Ezekiel 37:21-28 Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12ABCD, 13 John 11:45-56 Optional Memorial of Saint Isidore Readings: 2 Corinthians 4:1-2, 5-7 Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 Luke 6:43-45
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Pope Francis on the evening of April 3, 2020, issued a video message for Holy Week, aimed especially at families, those living in isolation due to coronavirus, and those who are sick. "I have in my heart all the families, especially those who have…
Read MoreSt. Isidore, who succeeded his brother St. Leander as Archbishop of Seville, was one of the great bishops of the seventh century. He was proficient in all brances of knowledge and was regarded as one of the most learned men of his time; with Cassiodoru…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
The Spanish bishop and scholar St. Isidore of Seville (560?-636) was born in Cartagena; there were three other canonized saints in his family, including his older brother St. Leander. Leander, who was twenty years older than Isidore, was responsible for his education; because he was so strict, Isidore ran away. Sitting alone in the woods, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | 2020, A Call to Greatness, acts of service, Blessed Sacrament, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Columns, Combat Against the Coronavirus, COVID-19, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, News, penance and sacrifice, Sir Winston Churchill, The Catholic Thing, wilderness years |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: God surely has a great purpose for in this time of crisis — a time in which it’s a privilege to live. Let’s rise to the challenge.
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Read MoreWashington D.C., Apr 3, 2020 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- The U.S. religious freedom ambassador on Thursday called on governments to release prisoners of conscience during the new coronavirus pandemic.
“In this time of pandemic, religious prisoners should…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Asia - Pacific, News |
CNA Staff, Apr 3, 2020 / 06:19 pm (CNA).- A Filipino seminary has opened its doors to over a dozen trapped tourists, who have been stranded since a mandatory lockdown was extended last month.
Saint Joseph Seminary in Puerto Princesa is providing shelt…
Read MoreWho were the giants in Scripture?
Questions Covered:
01:35 – If humans had to leave Earth and live on spaceships or other planets, would the Pope still be the bishop of Rome? Would the bishops get new dioceses?
06:10 – Is the dog that sav…
By Michael O’Neill | Antonietta put the card with the novena the Virgin Mary back into the copy of the Imitation of Christ that always rested on her nightstand. She knew the prayer by heart, from having recited it so many…
Read MoreBy Kathy Schiffer | When the world is on edge, when the coronavirus has brought our nation and the world to a standstill, to whom can you turn? You’ve probably heard this week about St. Corona, patron of epidemics — but have you…
By John Grondelski | You knew it wouldn’t be long before the politically correct got into the coronavirus debate.
Recently, The Washington Post announced that it has found both an “expert” (a professor of political science and…
Read MoreNew York City, N.Y., Apr 3, 2020 / 05:30 pm (CNA).- The threat of the coronavirus has hit nursing homes of the Archdiocese of New York especially hard, with families now being advised to bring their loved ones home if possible.
Fr. John Anderson, vice…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
When I heard that Tomie dePaola died, I had the strange feeling that I had lost a friend that I had never met. I had read his stories and enjoyed his illustrations with my children […]
Read MoreBy Ines Murzaku | Have you ever been daunted by emptiness?
Have a look at the drone footage taken in various busy metropolitan cities all over the world. In a matter of weeks, the world’s busiest cities have turned into ghost…
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