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  • Saint or Ain’t? A Homily for the 16th Sunday of the Year

    07/19/2020 5:33:42 PM PDT · by Salvation · 4 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-18-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 18, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Saint or Ain’t? A Homily for the 16th Sunday of the Year We live in difficult times for the Church; from many sectors the very legitimate cry for reform goes up frequently. Beyond the sexual abuse scandal there are also deep concerns regarding the uncertain trumpet of Catholic preaching, lukewarm and nominal Catholics, an overall lack of self-discipline among Catholics, and a lack of disciplining by the bishops and clergy of those Catholics (lay and clergy) who cause scandal. The list of concerns is long, and in general I have...
  • Prayer Request from Salvation (knee replacement)

    07/18/2020 10:47:23 PM PDT · by Salvation · 260 replies
    http://www.freerepublic.com/ ^ | 07-18-20 | Salvation
    I am having a knee replaced on Monday, July 20th. It's been a hectic week since I got a cancellation spot with only ten days notice. Please pray that this operation goes smoothly, and that the recovery goes well. May God bless all of you, and thank you for your prayers.
  • Catholic Caucus: Sunday Mass Readings, 07-19-20, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    07/18/2020 10:00:57 PM PDT · by Salvation · 10 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-19-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 19 2020 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Wis 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. For you show your might when the perfection of your power is disbelieved; and in those who know you, you rebuke temerity. But though you are master of might, you judge with clemency, and with much lenience you govern us; for power, whenever you will, attends you....
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-18-20, OM, St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest

    07/18/2020 12:18:55 AM PDT · by Salvation · 27 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-18-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 18 2020 Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Mi 2:1-5 Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power. They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance. Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time...
  • If You Think You're in a Hurry, You Have No Idea of How Fast You Are Getting There

    07/17/2020 10:19:00 AM PDT · by Salvation · 3 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-16-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope If You Think You’re in a Hurry, You Have No Idea of How Fast You Are Getting There. Have you been feeling a little rushed lately? Well, you might be surprised to find out how fast you’re actually moving even when you think you’re “standing still.” Earth, at the latitude of Washington, D.C., is spinning at a rate of about 750 miles per hour [1].At the same time, the spinning Earth is rotating around the Sun at approximately 67,000 miles per hour [2].And the Sun around which we...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-17-20

    07/17/2020 12:07:37 AM PDT · by Salvation · 22 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-17-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 17 2020 Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 When Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover.” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD:“O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was pleasing to you!” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: “Go, tell Hezekiah: Thus...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-16-20, OM, Our Lady of Mount Carmel

    07/15/2020 9:46:57 PM PDT · by Salvation · 21 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-16-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 16 2020 Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level. Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD, we look to you; Your name and your title are the desire of our souls. My soul yearns for you in the night, yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you; When your judgment dawns upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn justice. O LORD, you mete out peace to us, for it is you who have...
  • Unless Your Faith Is Strong You Shall Not Be Strong

    07/15/2020 10:15:46 AM PDT · by Salvation · 5 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-14-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 14, 2020 Unless Your Faith Is Strong You Shall Not Be Strong The first reading at Tuesday’s daily Mass presents a complex picture, but its fundamental message is clear. Isaiah announces that there will be a period of political stability among the nations and enemies surrounding Israel. It is a time of favor during which Israel can repent of its injustice and infidelity. If they do not, however, Israel will be destroyed within sixty-five years. Here is an excerpt from the reading:Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz [King of Judah] …...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 04-15-20, M, St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

    07/14/2020 9:31:40 PM PDT · by Salvation · 24 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-15-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 15 2020 Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 Is 10:5-7, 13b-16 Thus says the LORD: Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and tread them down like the mud of the streets. But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of nations not a few.For he says:...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-14-20, M, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin

    07/13/2020 9:57:40 PM PDT · by Salvation · 29 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-14-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 14 2020 Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin Reading 1 Is 7:1-9 In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it. When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and the heart of the people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you...
  • Not Peace but the Sword

    07/13/2020 9:46:34 AM PDT · by Salvation · 16 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 12, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Not Peace but the Sword In words that are nothing less than shocking, the Lord says in today’s Gospel: Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-13-20, OM, St. Henry

    07/12/2020 10:05:43 PM PDT · by Salvation · 28 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-13-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 13 2020 Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Is 1:10-17 Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you? Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon...
  • Catholic Caucus: Sunday Mass Readings, 07-12-20, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    07/11/2020 11:51:27 PM PDT · by Salvation · 24 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-12-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 12 2020 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Is 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; my word shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it. Responsorial Psalm Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 R. (Lk 8:8)...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-11-20, M, St. Benedict, Abbot

    07/10/2020 10:18:44 PM PDT · by Salvation · 26 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-11-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 11 2020 Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot Reading 1 Is 6:1-8 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, and with two they hovered aloft.They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!” At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook...
  • An Insight on Hope from St. Augustine

    07/10/2020 10:10:53 AM PDT · by Salvation · 2 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-05-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope An Insight on Hope from St. Augustine The word “hope” in modern English has lost much of the vigor assigned to what we call the theological virtue of Hope. In English hope often means merely a vague wish, as in, “I hope it doesn’t rain.” But the theological virtue of Hope (which I capitalize to distinguish it from worldly hope) is more vigorously defined as the confident expectation of God’s help in attaining eternal salvation. Notice therefore it is no mere wish, it is a confident expectation based...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-10-20

    07/09/2020 9:25:06 PM PDT · by Salvation · 24 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-10-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 10 2020 Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Hos 14:2-10 Thus says the LORD: Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt. Take with you words, and return to the LORD; Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity, and receive what is good, that we may render as offerings the bullocks from our stalls. Assyria will not save us, nor shall we have horses to mount; We shall say no more, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion.” I will heal...
  • Sobering Spiritual Truths According to St. John of the Cross

    07/09/2020 10:20:29 AM PDT · by Salvation · 12 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-08-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posted on July 7, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Sobering Spiritual Truths According to St. John of the Cross In today’s post I would like to ponder some hard and sobering spiritual truths, but ones that will set us free.In calling them “hard truths”, I mean that they are not the usual cozy bromides that many seek. They speak bluntly about the more irksome and difficult realities we face. If we come to accept them, though, they have a strange way of bringing serenity by getting us to focus us on the right things rather than spending our time...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-09-20, OM, St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

    07/08/2020 10:02:04 PM PDT · by Salvation · 27 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-09-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 9 2020 Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9 Thus says the LORD: When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the farther they went from me, Sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms; I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I stooped to feed my...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-08-20

    07/07/2020 10:03:55 PM PDT · by Salvation · 23 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 07-08-20 | Revised New American Bible
    July 8 2020 Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Israel is a luxuriant vine whose fruit matches its growth. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built; The more productive his land, the more sacred pillars he set up. Their heart is false, now they pay for their guilt; God shall break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars. If they would say, “We have no king”— Since they do not fear the LORD, what can the king do for them?The king of Samaria shall disappear, like foam...
  • What Does It Mean to Trust in God?

    07/07/2020 10:06:10 AM PDT · by Salvation · 20 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 07-06-20 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Posts Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 What Does It Mean to Trust in God? We are often told to trust in God, and many of us have counseled others who are anxious or downcast to do so. But what does that mean?In some cases, when people give this counsel they mean this: Don’t worry, God will eventually give you what want. God will come around to your way of thinking at some point. Hang in there and wait for God to answer (your way). He’ll take care of things (in a way that pleases you).This is not...