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The Talk Shows July 15th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Jon Huntsman Jr., U.S. ambassador to Russia; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. The panel in Helsinki will be Jonathan Swan of Axios and Michael Gordon of The Wall Street Journal. The panel in Washington will be Susan Page of USA Today, Charles Lane of The Washington Post, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Huntsman; Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Ark. The panel will be Amy...

White Double IN THE MIDDLE AGES, this Sunday was called, the sixth and last Sunday after the Natalis of the Apostles (that is, the Feast of St. Peter); it was, indeed, the last, for the years when Easter had been kept was late in April as was possible; but, it was only the first after that Feast of St. Peter, when Easter immediately followed the spring equinox. We have already noticed the variable character of this last portion of the liturgical cycle, which was the result of Easter’s being kept on a different day each year; and that, in...

The Talk Shows July 8th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America; Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. representative to NATO. The panel will be Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.; Mimi Rocah, former assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York. The panel will be Mark Murray of NBC News, Susan Page of USA Today, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post...

Green Semidouble THE DOMINICAL CYCLE of the Time after Pentecost completes today its first seven. Previous to the general adoption of the changes introduced into the Sunday Gospels for this portion of the Year, the Gospel of the multiplication of the seven loaves gave its name to the seventh Sunday; and the mystery it contains is still evident in more than one section of today’s liturgy. As we have already seen, this mystery was that of the consummation of the perfect in the repose or rest of God himself; it was the fruitful peace of the divine union. Nothing,...

The Talk Shows July 1st, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): National security adviser John Bolton; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society and Trump adviser.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Bolton; Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Roberta Jacobson, former ambassador to Mexico; Mark Salter, co-author with John McCain of “The Restless Wave.”THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN):...

Green Semidouble THE OFFICE FOR THE SIXTH SUNDAY after Pentecost, which began yesterday evening, reminded us, in its Magnificat Antiphon, of a repentence which has never had an equal. David, the royal prophet, the conqueror of Goliath, himself conquered by sensuality, and from adulterer become a murderer, at last felt the crushing weight of his double crime, and exclaimed: I do beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly! “I have acted as a fool!” Sin is always a folly, and a weakness, no matter what kind it may be, or...

The Talk Shows June 24th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Anus King, I-Maine, and James Lankford, R-Okla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Rep. Louis Gutierrez, D-Ill.; Tom Bossert, former Trump homeland security adviser; Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children; David Miliband, president and CEO of International Rescue Committee.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.;...

Green Semidouble THIS SUNDAY, which, with the Greeks, is called the fifth of Saint Matthew, was known by the Latins as the Sunday of the Fishing; such was its name up to the time when the Church had transferred to the previous Sunday the Gospel which suggested that title. The week which it commences is, in some ancient lectionaries, called the first after the Feast of the Apostles or of St. Peter; in others, it is the second or third after the same feast; these, and other similar varieties of names, which it is no rare thing to find...

The Talk Shows June 16th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Cedric Richmond, D-La.THIS WEEK (ABC): Former White House strategist Steve Bannon; Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Giuliani; Reps. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.

Green Semidouble THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST was called, for a long period, in the West, the Sunday of Mercy, because, formerly, there was read upon the passage from St. Luke, beginning with the words: “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.” But, this Gospel having been since assigned to the Mass of the first Sunday after Pentecost, the Gospel of the fifth Sunday was made that of the fourth; the Gospel of the sixth became that of the fifth; and so on, up to the twenty-third. The change we speak of was, however, not introduced into many Churches...

The Talk Shows June 10th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pre-empted by French Open tennis.FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kudlow; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

White Semidouble THE FAITHFUL SOUL HAS WITNESSED, through the sacred Liturgy, the close of the mysteries of our Redemption, which were wrought, in succession, by our Jesus, and applied to us, one after the other, by his Church, in her divine worship of them. The Holy Ghost has been sent, by the Father and Son, and he has lovingly and graciously come, to continue amongst us the work of the Incarnate Word. He, the Spirit of the Father and Son, is come to support the Christian in this second portion of both time and season; it is, as far...

The Talk Shows June 3rd, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow ; Corey Lewandowski, a former Donald Trump campaign manager.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas.THIS WEEK (ABC): Kudlow.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

White Semidouble Christum regem adoremus dominantem gentibus, qui se manducantibus dat spiritus pingudeninem. Let us adore Christ, the King, who ruleth the nations; who giveth fatness of spirit to them that eat him. THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS, the Angel of the testament whom Israel longs for, has come down from heaven. Wisdom is come among us. Who, asks the Prophet, shall go up into heaven to take Wisdom and bring him down from the clouds? Who shall pass over the sea, and bring him from distant lands, him, the treasure more precious than the purest gold? Israel has...

WE HAVE NOT, as yet, reached the Feast of the divine Memorial; not until the morrow shall we have it in all its splendor. But this evening at first Vespers, the Church will begin her acclamations to the Eternal Priest, and although the Sovereign Pontiffs have not ordained that a Vigil, properly so called, shall precede the Feast of Corpus Christi, yet have they granted indulgences to a voluntary fast practiced on this its eve. Let us now resume the history of the Church’s worship of the great mystery. We have already seen how the unity of the Church...

THE HISTORY OF THE BLESSED EUCHARIST is one with that of the Church herself: the liturgical usages, which have varied in the celebration of the most august of all the Sacraments, have followed the great social phases of the Christian world. This was a necessity; for the Eucharist is the vital center here below, whither everything in the Church converges; it is the inner bond which unites together that society of which Christ is the head, the society whereby he is to reign over the nations, which are to be his inheritance. Union with Peter, the Vicar of Christ,...

HAVING, BY HIS DIVINE LIGHT, added fresh appreciation towards the sovereign mystery of the august Trinity, the Holy Ghost next leads the Church to contemplate that other marvel, which concentrates in itself all the works of the Incarnate Word, and leads us, even in this present life, to union with God. The mystery of the Holy Eucharist is going to be brought before us in all its magnificence; it behooves us, therefore, to prepare the eyes of our soul for the worthy reception of the light which is so soon to dawn upon us. As during the whole year,...

The Talk Shows May 27th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Chris Coons, D-Del.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.; James Clapper, former director of national intelligence.THIS WEEK (ABC): Rubio; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; former CIA Director Michael Hayden.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Clapper; Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

The Talk Shows May 20th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North; Mark Kelly, co-founder of Giffords, a gun-control advocacy group.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Roger Stone, a longtime Donald Trump confidant.FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.THIS WEEK (ABC): Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick; Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland, Florida, shooting victim; Nicole Hockley, mother of Newtown, Connecticut, shooting victim; Kudlow.STATE...

Red Double of the First Class with Privileged Octave(Indulgence of 30 years and 30 quarantines) Veni, sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within the fire of thy love. THE GREAT DAY, which consummates the work that God had undertaken for the human race has, at last, shone upon the world. The days of Pentecost, as St. Luke says, are accomplished. We have had seven weeks since the Pasch; and now comes the day that opens the mysterious number of Fifty....