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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Catholic Culture, Catholic Traditions, Church and culture, Ember Days, Free Access, News |
The bishop established the Ember Days for a diocesan year of vocations, and granted a partial indulgence to their observance, in a Nov. 19 decree.
The post Syracuse bishop revives Ember Days, calls for prayer and fasting for vocations appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Catholic healthcare, Church in US, coronavirus emergency, COVID vaccine, News |
Franciscan Health joins Catholic Health in Western New York, and Catholic Health Services of the Archdiocese of Miami in distributing the vaccine in the U.S.
The post Franciscan Health joins growing list of US Catholic health systems to vaccinate appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Akathist hymn, Gabriel, Incarnation, King David, Mary the Mother of God, News, tabernacle, The Dispatch, Theotokos, Trinity, Zion |
On the Readings for Sunday, December 24, 2017, the Fourth Sunday of Advent […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Christmas, Christmas 2020, coronavirus emergency, News, Rome, Top Story |
The desire to praise and the carrying about of our mortality – our death – with us: these are constants of nature after the Fall, and always come to us admixed almost indiscriminately.
The post Christmas at the end of the world appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Caritas Internationalis, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, Pope Francis, Poverty, Rome |
As the holidays draw nearer and those feeling the brunt of the fallout from coronavirus lockdowns struggle to put food on the table, the Diocese of Rome and its parochial Caritas offices have organized two food drives to support those in need.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Ambazonia, Anglophone crisis, Bishop George Nkuo, Catholic Church, Christmas, Church in Africa, lead, News |
As Christmas approaches, a Cameroonian bishop whose diocese has been engulfed in the country’s Anglophone crisis hopes it will bring a period of peace to the region.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Canonization, Church in the US, lead, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Sainthood cause, University of Notre Dame |
According to one University of Notre Dame professor, the revelations of the Holy See’s report on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the totality of the clergy sex abuse crisis are grounds enough to increase the number of years after a person dies before a sainthood cause can be opened.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | J.R.R. Tolkien, John Garth, Middle-earth, News, The Dispatch |
Editor’s note: In recognition of the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth on this day in 1892, we are reposting this review, originally published on Dec. 18, 2020. Middle-earth is almost as vivid a character in […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | 2020, Adoro te devote, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Ferrari v. Ford: Which Kind of Worship?, Ford Focus, hymns, Jesus Christ, News, Pope Francis, R.J. Snell, The Catholic Thing, USCCB Doctrine Committee, “All are Welcome”, “Canticle of the Sun”, “Let Us Break Bread Together”, “O Salutaris Hostia”, “Sing a New Church” |
R.J. Snell: Restore our worship; give us our birth-right, our baptismal rights, to be oriented to God and the consuming fire of his love.
The post Ferrari v. Ford: Which Kind of Worship? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Pope Francis declared this year—December 8, 2020-December 8, 2021—a Year of St. Joseph. This celebration should bring to mind all…
The post St. Joseph and all dads appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreToday is the third of the O Antiphons. Christ the King, the Lord! Divine Wisdom, Adonai, the powerful God, is at the same time man with flesh and blood of the house of Jesse, the father of King David. Truly, the right of kingship has now passed from th…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Christmas, Living nativities, News, Pesebres vivientes |
When I think of Christmas traditions, I have memories of “Posadas,” “Pastorelas” or Nativity plays, “pesebres vivientes” or living nativities, the “Misa del Gallo” or midnight Masses, and the traditional Christmas carols that joyfully tell stories about the Holy Family.
Read MorePope Francis prepares the Church for the true celebration of Christ’s Nativity
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Cyberpunk 2077, News, Video Game Reviews |
“Cyberpunk 2077,” a fast-paced action-adventure title that warns of a dystopian future where glamor, greed and rogue science reign, is being hyped as one of the best games of 2020.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Pell, Faith behind bars, News, Prison Journal, U.S. & World News |
The first evening Australian Cardinal George Pell was incarcerated, he began writing a record of his thoughts and experiences in the form of a diary. “I am now at the quiet heart of the storm, while family, friends, and wider church have to cope with the tornado,” wrote the cardinal, who had been convicted — […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Dec 18, 2020 / 05:01 pm (CNA).- The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Kentucky Christian school’s plea to reopen for in-person learning, upholding a health order from the governor that barred in-person K-12 education in most areas u…
Read MoreJimmy Akin discusses the historical facts we can know about the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Resources Mentioned:
How the Accounts of Jesus’ Childhood Fit Together: http://jimmyakin.com/how-the-accounts-of-jesus-childhood-fit-together
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 18, 2020 | Bethlehem, Catholic Hotdish, Jesus, News, What child is this |
The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem on a dark night two thousand years ago was the arrival of a child like none other. To know the identity of the little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in the manger is to know the spiritual meaning of Christmas.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Dec 18, 2020 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- Spain’s parliament has advanced a euthanasia and assisted suicide bill that Catholic leaders had decried as “a defeat for all” which abandons those who suffer.
The Congress of Deputies, the…
Read MoreQuestions Covered:
15:57 – Can you tell us more about the Wise Men?
22:52 – Why is the entrance to the Nativity in Bethlehem so low to get into? Why is there so much division over the location?
30:05 – What was the timeline of the …
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