Pope Francis: Christ’s Wounds Shower ‘Mercy Upon our Misery’
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Pope Francis before the image of Jesus of Divine Mercy April 8, 2018. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
Vatican City, Apr 11, 2021 / 05:48 am (CNA).
At every Mass we adore and kiss Christ’s wounded and risen body in the Eucharist, a channel…
St. Mary’s College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is keeping the melodies and harmonies alive, despite pandemic restrictions, with percussion music makers called Boomwhackers.
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A year ago last March, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis sent an email to pastors letting them know he was closing churches for public Masses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe’… ‘My Lord and my God!’ (Jn. 20:18)). Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, and as we celebrate the end of the Easter Octave, we contemplate the wounded side of Our Saviour, the Church’s source of life. You recall that on Good[…]
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A Catholic radio station allows people in Malawi to find out what is going on in local communities and across the country.
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At the Easter Vigil April 3, Jessica Rutherford became a full member of the Catholic Church, receiving the sacraments in the same school where she first began learning about Catholicism.
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No one has to tell Catholic school teachers how different this past year has been. At the start of the pandemic last spring, most Catholic schools adapted to online schooling and continued that way until the end of the school year.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 11, 2021 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, Eucharist, News |
Holy Week is a spiritual marathon of sorts, packed with liturgies, solemnity and tradition. This year, it also included a powerful document on the Eucharist issued by Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted April 1, Holy Thursday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 11, 2021 | Communism, confession, Divine Mercy Sunday, lead, News, Pope Francis, Sacraments, Vatican |
Pope Francis marked Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman church Church of Santo Spirito, which was half empty yet filled with male and female prisoners from three local prisons, a migrant family from Argentina, refugees coming from Syria, Nigeria and Egypt, and religious sisters who work in a local hospital.
Read MoreReading I Acts 4:32-35
The community of believers was of one heart and mind,
and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own,
but they had everything in common.
With great power the apostles bore witness
to the resurrection…
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Italy is where relationships trump logic every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. As a result, an ordinary Italian experiences no incongruity at all in being both ferociously anti-clerical and devoutly attached to the faith and their local parish.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 11, 2021 | Commentary, Divine Mercy Sunday, Faith, lead, News, On Spirituality, Resurrection |
God’s grace desires to pierce our world, which was made good, but is now fallen. There is no battle between supposedly equal forces of good and evil. Such false drama is not reality. The true battle is between a good world and an illness – a spiritual cancer – called evil.
Read MoreIn the wake of the March 23rd killing of ten people at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, two Catholic bishops quickly responded with words of solace. They prayed for the victims and […]
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Jesus is waiting for you right here, right now. He is all holy and He desires you to be in communion with Him. For that, you do not in this life need to be perfect; you need to be forgiven, to be healed and to be contrite and desire holiness. Give your…
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Bevil Bramwell OMI: Our glorious Lord sits at the Father’s right hand and is also present in every Eucharist and in every Tabernacle.
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