Pray daily: O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, didst prepare a worthy dwelling place for thy Son, we beseech thee that, as by the foreseen death of this, thy Son, thou didst preserve her from all stain, so too thou wouldst permit us, purified through her intercession, to come …
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Today begins the “Novena to the Immaculate Conception for Alcoholics.” For information regarding the Church’s teaching of Mary’s Immaculate Conception, see this link from the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA There is also this excerpt from an earlier blogpost of mine: …Such a vessel has to be free of all stain of sin, hence the angel’s greeting to …
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It’s now “Official”, the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar has been announced on the project’s home page here—> A Catholic New Media Advent- Catholic Roundup Podcast 87 (Via Catholic Roundup.) Click on the link and download the podcast into iTunes or whatever you listen to podcasts on. You can also play it in your browser …
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Today is the First Sunday of Advent. Advent is a time of conversion, in a somewhat similar vein like Lent. However while Lent focuses on Christ’s death, in Advent we focus on His birth. Both are critical events in humanity’s salvation history. In Christ’s birth He took on human flesh so as to redeem our …
Ran across this in a friend’s blog: Ephesians 4:29: “No foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who hear.” (Via USCCB.) I post this here as I can be rather profane in my personal speech, and aside from …
If you are a Catholic blogger or podcaster, and would like to make a contribution to the spiritual development of fellow Catholics worldwide, please consider joining the Catholic Roundup’s New Media Advent Calendar. Every day during Advent there will be a blogpost and/or a podcast with a meditation (or something) for that particular day. Probably …
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Today is the Solemnity of Christ the King, in which we acknowledge Jesus as our King, the centerpiece of Creation and of our lives. The following excerpt from the Gospel for the Mass for today announces His Kingship over the Jews, albeit in perhaps a mocking way: Luke 23:38: “Above him there was an inscription …
The following is the Second Reading from the Mass for the Solemnity of Christ the King: Col 1:12-20: “Brothers and sisters: Let us give thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us …
Sean over at Catholic Roundup is hosting with the (hopefully useful) assistance of myself and BroJer, the annual Catholic New Media Advent Calendar Here is the daily updateable calendar: Each day will have podcasts, blogposts and other New Media extravaganzas pertinent to that day. It is supposed to go in the sidebar, but it is …
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Once again I have been asked by Tribute Books to review one of their recently published works. This time it is Care for Creation by Christy Baldwin and Shelly Draven. The children’s book is an nice little tome in which children are introduced to the basics of stewardship of the Earth by way of standard …