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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 25, 2020 | Feature1, Feature2, Feature3, News, Pope Francis, urbi et orbi |
‘The Child born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem was born for everyone: he is the son that God has given to the entire human family’
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Read MoreVatican City, Dec 25, 2020 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Giving his traditional Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” blessing Friday, Pope Francis called for coronavirus vaccines to be made available to the world’s neediest people.
The pope made a sp…
Read More“I would like to bring to everyone the message that the Church proclaims on this feast with the words of the prophet Isaiah: ‘To us a child is born, to us a son is given’” (Isaiah 9:6), the Pontiff said at the beginning of his m…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 25, 2020 | Christmas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, Vatican |
On Christmas day, as many are cooped inside unable to see friends and family due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis issued an appeal for peace and brotherhood, urging political leaders to ensure that scientific developments move forward, there is equal access to vaccines and other treatments.
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The lesson from Isaiah at Midnight Mass on Christmas reads, “Thou has increased their joy and given them great gladness.” I am often struck by the fact that in Christianity joy and gladness are not so much a product of our own activities but something much more, something that happens when all that the Greeks […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 25, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
For many of us, 2020 has been a difficult year. (Yes, I am aware of the understatement!) Covid-19, along with its ensuing restrictions and economic and personal upheaval, the rioting, election madness, and all the rest of the public horror has for many of us been combined with personal losses, especially the deaths of family […]
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Reading 1 Is 62:11-12
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Reading 1 Is 62:1-5
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Reading 1 Is 9:1-6
The people who walked in darknesshave seen a great light;upon tho…
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Reading 1 Is 52:7-10
How beautiful upon the mountainsare the feet of him who bring…
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(Here is the Christmas address of Pope Saint John Paul II, from way back in 2002, and the needs for which he prayed eighteen years ago are much the same now as then; in fact, they are much the same as, say, 419 or 719 or 1319 anno Domini – the Middle East, Africa, peace[…]
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Read MoreWhat is God like? The Bible itself answers the question if we examine it carefully. The first thing that struck me as I reflected on the sacred text was the surprising fact that God has made himself known at all, that we can say anything about him. After all, he is by definition transcendent, i.e.,[…]
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St. Augustine: Truly did the Prophets announce that Christ would be born; truly did the heavens and angels announce that He had been born.
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Read MoreToday the Church celebrates the Birth of Jesus Christ, the first day in the octave of Christmas. Throughout Advent the Church longed ardently for the coming of our Savior. Today she celebrates His birth with unrestrained joy. “The Word was made flesh a…
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“The essence of the Christmas story is that God is with us in a particular and unique way. He is with us to save us; this is what the name ‘Jesus’ means.”— Archbishop Michael Neary, Advent Reflections: Meditations for a Holy Advent
Read MoreMany Dark Shadows and a Few Glimmers of Light
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