DAILY GOSPEL: GOD IS NEVER OUTDONE IN GENEROSITY. Tuesday, 8th week Ordinary Time (Mk 10:28-31). Mk 10:28–31 Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father…
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ST. AUGUSTINE ON AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS AND WORLDLY JOY.
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Nov. 17 ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. Edifying example of love for the poor and detachment from worldly goods.
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BACK TO THE ESSENTIAL: LOVE GOD, LIVE FOR HIM AND OTHERS.
BACK TO WHAT IS TRULY ESSENTIAL: LIVE FOR AND LOVE GOD AND OTHERS, AND DETACH OURSELVES FROM THE MUNDANE AND MATERIAL. Dear brethren in Christ, as we prepare ourselves for Christmas, let us ask ourselves if we really liVe for the most essential goal in our life: to live for, with and in God…
Oct. 4: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Audiovisual summary and text
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25th Sunday O.T. Year C. THE UNJUST STEWARD. “You cannot serve both God and wealth.”
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13th Sunday O.T. (C). GOD’S CALL AND OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
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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…
POPE FRANCIS ON THE CHURCH: SHE MUST BE HUMBLE, POOR & TRUSTING IN THE LORD.
POPE FRANCIS ON THE CHURCH: SHE MUST BE HUMBLE, POOR & TRUSTING IN THE LORD Dear friends, in yesterday’s (Dec. 15, 2015) Santa Marta morning Mass homily, Pope Francis insisted that the Church’s mission is in following the Beatitudes, and that it must be humble, poor & trusting in the Lord. Nevertheless, this would only…
30th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B). JESUS CHRIST, THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER’S LOVE AND MERCY. The Blind Man of Jericho
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