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  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-12-19

    01/11/2019 9:10:33 PM PST · by Salvation · 40 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-12-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 12 2019 Saturday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 5:14-21Beloved: We have this confidence in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours. If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not...
  • [Cath Cauc] Cdl. Schönborn’s cathedral gallery features lesbians kissing on Church step

    01/11/2019 3:48:03 PM PST · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSIte News ^ | January 10, 2010 | Maike Hickson
    Art exhibition at Cdl. Schönborn’s cathedral gallery features lesbians kissing on Church step January 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A recently concluded art exhibition in the rectory of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria included an image [WARNING: Following links lead to graphic images] of two lesbians kissing in front of a church as well as an image of an almost completely nude woman posing as the Resurrected Christ.  The Austrian news website Kath.net reported today that these pictures were to be found and seen in the Curhaus, the building adjacent to St. Stephen's Cathedral which is among other things...
  • The Law

    01/11/2019 12:28:52 PM PST · by amessenger4god · 4 replies
    Unsealed ^ | 1/11/2019 | Gary
    Faith and works.  Law and grace.  This is the age-old battle between God and man-made religion that started not when Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, but long, long before—in the Garden of Eden, in the beginning, in fact.  This is a mega-post (so grab some coffee!), but please stick through to the end, because there is a blessing herein that the receptive heart will receive.  And please share with anyone you know, religious or otherwise, who is far from God. Was there law in Eden?  No, there was grace,...
  • [Cath Cauc]Pope’s rebuke of traditionalists better applies to Vatican II zealots stuck in 1960s ..

    01/11/2019 9:35:25 AM PST · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | January 9, 2019 | Peter Kwasniewski
    Pope’s rebuke of traditionalists better applies to Vatican II zealots stuck in 1960s Cardinal Bergoglio at the 'Puppet' Archdiocesan Mass for Children, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 15, 2011. Youtube January 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In the early days of the Francis regime, the world was treated to a wide and colorful array of insulting language from the Vicar of Christ directed at Catholics faulted for remaining “intransigently faithful” to tradition, with the implication that these were not like himself: a 1970s progressive, full of admiration for the United Nations and the European Union. In recent times the flood of...
  • January 11 - Fasting as Part of Preparation for Testing

    01/11/2019 8:20:37 AM PST · by metmom · 9 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “After He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry” (Matthew 4:2). For a quite lengthy period prior to the three diabolical temptations directed at Jesus, He fasted. We don’t know exactly what He did during the forty-day period, but He likely spent most of the time communing with His heavenly Father. Even in His perfect humanity, Jesus needed solitary preparation time in medi-tation and prayer, as we all do in anticipating a major testing. Consider how Moses spent forty years in Midian in preparation for his leadership of Israel out of Egypt to the Promised Land,...
  • This Song Will Never Cease

    01/11/2019 7:25:29 AM PST · by amessenger4god · 2 replies
    Unsealed ^ | 1/10/2019 | Gary
    O little lamb.  I know the journey has been long and the road hard for you.  I know the perplexity of life and the thunderous waves of competing voices make it so difficult to hear the only Voice that matters.  But do not fear, little one.  Do not fear. Sometimes you thought you were holding on by a mere thread, with just the tip of a finger above water.  You could barely utter a prayer, nay even a word.  All you could offer was the wordless, inner groaning of faith.  And in moments of weakness you thought He might...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-11-19

    01/10/2019 10:05:10 PM PST · by Salvation · 37 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-11-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 11 2019 Friday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 5:5-13 Beloved:Who indeed is the victor over the worldbut the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ,not by water alone, but by water and Blood. The Spirit is the one who testifies,and the Spirit is truth. So there are three who testify,the Spirit, the water, and the Blood, and the three are of one accord. If we accept human testimony,the testimony of God is surely greater. Now the testimony of God is this,that he...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Reflecting on the Extraordinary Form with ‘Tradition and Sanity’

    01/10/2019 9:34:31 AM PST · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | January 9, 2019 | Amanda Evinger
    Reflecting on the Extraordinary Form with ‘Tradition and Sanity’ Peter Kwasniewski’s most recent book helps lift the spirits of those who are “fighting the good fight” to revive the heart of traditional Catholicism. Amanda Evinger Those of us who love the Extraordinary Form of the Mass know what it feels like when heaven embraces earth in the liturgy; our spirits are hushed to an almost mystical serenity, and our souls are won over by the energy of divine grace. We know what it is like to tap into the resilience of the Latin Mass, savoring each moment, allowing ourselves to...
  • January 10 - God’s Plan for Temptation

    01/10/2019 7:24:19 AM PST · by metmom · 2 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1). Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness did not catch His Father by surprise. The Son was specifically “led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” The word translated “tempted” is from a morally neutral term that means “to test.” But sometimes, as here, the context clearly indicates that the testing was aimed at enticing one to do evil. That the devil was going to present certain temptations to Jesus thus justifies rendering the word “tempted”—it gives...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-10-19

    01/09/2019 10:50:40 PM PST · by Salvation · 33 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-10-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 10 2019 Thursday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 4:19–5:4 Beloved, we love God becausehe first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God,"but hates his brother, he is a liar;for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him:Whoever loves God must also love his brother. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God,and everyone who loves the Fatherloves also the one begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of...
  • January 9 - Preparation for Testing

    01/09/2019 6:29:19 AM PST · by metmom · 2 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1). One of life’s important truisms is that strong temptation tends to follow every major personal triumph. The apostle Paul warns, “Let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall” (1 Cor. 10:12). In the aftermath of significant successes, we are often tempted to think the accomplishment came solely by our own strength and ingenuity. But just when we think success is here to stay, we become vulnerable to pride—and failure. Even Christ in His incarnation was not...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-09-19

    01/08/2019 10:10:57 PM PST · by Salvation · 33 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-09-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 9 2019 Wednesday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 4:11-18 Beloved, if God so loved us,we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,and his love is brought to perfection in us. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,that he has given us of his Spirit. Moreover, we have seen and testifythat the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,God remains in him and he in God....
  • January 8 - Jesus’ Deity—Central to the Gospel

    01/08/2019 9:30:39 AM PST · by metmom · 5 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “A voice out of the heavens said, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased’” (Matthew 3:17). The truth that Jesus Christ is God’s perfect Son is a key feature of the gospel message. The author of the letter to the Hebrews makes this clear at the outset of his writing: God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-08-19

    01/07/2019 11:38:05 PM PST · by Salvation · 34 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-08-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 8 2019 Tuesday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another,because love is of God;everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.In this way the love of God was revealed to us:God sent his only-begotten Son into the worldso that we might have life through him.In this is love:not that we have loved God, but that he loved usand sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Responsorial Psalm Ps 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8 R. (see 11) Lord, every nation on...
  • Beth Moore sparks debate after saying spending time reading Bible is not spending time with God

    01/07/2019 8:24:25 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 54 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/07/2019 | Leonardo Blair
    Beth Moore. | (Photo: Facebook)Popular Bible teacher and author Beth Moore has sparked a fiery debate online about whether spending time reading the Bible is the same thing as spending time with God.“Spending time with God and spending time with the Bible are not the same thing. The Bible is the Word of God, crucial to knowing Him, but it’s not God. We can study our Bibles till the 2nd coming & leave God completely out of it. We can grow in facts & never grow a whit in faith,” Moore declared in an initial tweet on the subject...
  • January 7 - Beloved Jesus—Superior to All Sacrifices

    01/07/2019 5:12:51 AM PST · by metmom · 1 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “A voice out of the heavens said, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased’” (Matthew 3:17). No Old Testament sacrifice, no matter how carefully selected, was genuinely and completely pleasing to God. The people could not possibly find an animal without some imperfection. Furthermore, the blood of the sacrificial animals was at best only symbolic, “for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Heb. 10:4; cf. 9:12). But the Cross would effect a sacrifice that would be “with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of...
  • AMERICA Prayer Vigil - 1/7/2019 [Prayer]

    01/07/2019 12:16:29 AM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 43 replies
    Free Republic Intercessors ^ | 1/7/2019 | UMCRevMom
    Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for our President and Vice President and for AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 01-07-19, OM, St. Raymond Penyafort, Priest

    01/06/2019 8:04:37 PM PST · by Salvation · 33 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-07-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 7 2019 Monday after Epiphany Reading 1 1 Jn 3:22–4:6 Beloved:We receive from him whatever we ask,because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.And his commandment is this:we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,and love one another just as he commanded us.Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,and the way we know that he remains in usis from the Spirit whom he gave us. Beloved, do not trust every spiritbut test the spirits to see whether they belong to God,because many false prophets have gone out into...
  • January 6 - The Holy Spirit Validates Jesus

    01/06/2019 2:55:14 PM PST · by metmom · 2 replies
    Grace To You.org ^ | 2008 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church
    “The heavens were opened, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him” (Matthew 3:16). About the supernatural sign that occurred at the conclusion of Jesus’ baptism, one commentator has suggested, “Just as the veil of the Temple was rent in twain to symbolize the perfect access of all men to God, so here the heavens are rent asunder to show how near God is to Jesus, and Jesus to God.” But did Jesus really need an anointing from the Holy Spirit? When He came to earth, Jesus retained His full deity. In...
  • Catholic Caucus: Sunday Mass Readings, 01-06-19, The Epiphany of the Lord

    01/05/2019 7:40:05 PM PST · by Salvation · 47 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 01-06-19 | Revised New American Bible
    January 6 2019 The Epiphany of the Lord Reading 1 Is 60:1-6 Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come,the glory of the Lord shines upon you.See, darkness covers the earth,and thick clouds cover the peoples;but upon you the LORD shines,and over you appears his glory.Nations shall walk by your light,and kings by your shining radiance.Raise your eyes and look about;they all gather and come to you:your sons come from afar,and your daughters in the arms of their nurses. Then you shall be radiant at what you see,your heart shall throb and overflow,for the riches of the sea...