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Category: Hope
33rd Sunday Reflection, Year C. “To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.”
33rd Sunday Reflection Year C “To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.” These are the words we pray in today’s Communion antiphon as we celebrate the penultimate Sunday of Ordinary Time: To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in Him! They are timely…
POPE FRANCIS: IF GOD HOPES, NEVER LOSE HOPE!
POPE FRANCIS: IF GOD HOPES, NEVER LOSE HOPE! ORIGINAL PHOTO SOURCE. VATICAN RADIO FB PAGE.
29th Sunday Reflection (C). THE PARABLE OF THE PERSISTENT WIDOW AND THE UNJUST JUDGE. The Importance Of Persevering Prayer. AV Summary and text.
29th Sunday Reflection (Year C) THE PARABLE OF THE PERSISTENT WIDOW AND THE UNJUST JUDGE The Importance Of Persevering Prayer. AV Summary and text. “Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart (Lk 18:1).” Today’s Sunday readings remind us of the necessity of persevering in prayer and its…
POPE FRANCIS’ BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Come to Me, Take my Yoke, Learn from Me Audiovisual summary and text.
POPE FRANCIS’ BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Come to Me, Take my Yoke, Learn from Me Audiovisual summary and text. Dear brethren in Christ: are you tired, wearied, overburdenened by life’s difficulties? Let us second Our Lord’s words: “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give…
23rd Sunday OT Year C TRUE WISDOM CONSISTS IN PUTTING GOD OVER EVERYTHING ELSE AND FULFILLING HIS WILL. Video Summary and text.
23rd Sunday OT Year C TRUE WISDOM CONSISTS IN PUTTING GOD OVER EVERYTHING ELSE AND FULFILLING HIS WILL. Video Summary and text Dear brethren in Christ, today’s Sunday liturgy invites us to meditate on the meaning of our existence in the midst of the world. For this, we must be guided by the true wisdom…
POPE FRANCIS’ WYD2016 FINAL MASS HOMILY: “GOD LOVES US THE WAY WE ARE, AND NO SIN, FAULT OR MISTAKE OF OURS MAKES HIM CHANGE HIS MIND”
POPE FRANCIS’ WYD2016 FINAL MASS HOMILY: “GOD LOVES US THE WAY WE ARE, AND NO SIN, FAULT OR MISTAKE OF OURS MAKES HIM CHANGE HIS MIND” Dear brethren in Christ, below you have the full text of Pope Francis’ Final Mass Homily of the WYD 2016 in Krakow, Poland. In it, Pope Francis instilled a…
NEVER DESPAIR! “The Lord is kind and merciful!” “It is always possible to start all over, as long as we allow Jesus to embrace and forgive us (Pope Francis).”
NEVER DESPAIR! “The Lord is kind and merciful!” “It is always possible to start all over, as long as we allow Jesus to embrace and forgive us (Pope Francis).” Dear brethren in Christ, as I was doing my spiritual reading on Pope Francis’ new book, “The Name of God is Mercy,” the following words caught…
JESUS IS OUR HOPE AND NOT THE WORLDLY GOODS. Pope Francis’ Address to Youth in Morelia, Mexico.
JESUS IS OUR HOPE AND NOT THE WORLDLY GOODS. Pope Francis’ Address to Youth in Morelia, Mexico Dear friends in Christ, below you have the Vatican translation of the Pope’s address at his meeting with youth this afternoon in Morelia, Mexico together with the ZENIT transcription and translation of his off-the-cuff comments in brackets. In…
CONVERSIONS DO HAPPEN WITH GOD’S GRACE, OUR LADY’S INTERCESSION AND MAN’S CORRESPONDENCE!
GOD’S MIRACLE IN THE CONVERSION OF A REBELLIOUS TEEN, DRUG ADDICT TURNED PRIEST. A True Conversion Story. Who’s that guy with the long hair in the picture Fr. Calloway is showing? It was he himself as a young adult immersed in the worldly pleasures! Dear friends, I came upon this video which I think is…
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