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Month: May 2020

Nine Truths about Purgatory: What Catholics Need to Know about Heaven’s Ante-room

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Nine Truths about Purgatory: What Catholics need to know about the ‘anteroom of heaven’ By Emily Stimpson – OSV Newsweekly, 9/29/2013 (Steve Ray’s article on Purgatory HERE) Some fear it. Others hope for it. Some see it as proof of God’s mercy; others as testimony to God’s wrath. Many don’t know anything about it, while many […]

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St. Joseph the Worker was once out of work, too

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Denver Newsroom, Dec 22, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- With mass unemployment still high as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, Catholics can look to St. Joseph as a special intercessor, two priests said.

Citing the Holy Family’s escape to Egypt, devot…

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Friday of the Third Week of Easter

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Reading 1 Acts 9:1-20

Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest and asked him
for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that,
if he should find any men or women who belonged to the Way,
he mi…

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Work Made Light of Saint Joseph

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In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars, and the subsequent instantiation of what is called ‘real socialism’, May 1st was adopted as ‘International Workers’ Day’, to celebrate the rights of the laborer, in light of Marx and Engel’s 1848 Communist Manifesto: ‘Workers, unite!’ We all know what[…]

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Saint Joseph the Worker, Ora Pro Nobis

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Each year on May 1, the Catholic faithful celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph the Worker. This feast day, instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1955, was meant to provide downtrodden laborers with a spiritual patron, as well as an alternative to the communist labor agitation that was prevalent at the time. The Catholic […]

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