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10/26/2020

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El Papa Francisco anunció durante el rezo del Ángelus la creación de 13 nuevos cardenales en un consistorio que se celebrará el próximo 28 de noviembre.

09/29/2020

Much has been made of the Catholic faith of Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s most recent nominee to the United States Supreme Court.

09/29/2020

St. Lorenzo Ruiz, the first canonized Filipino martyr, pray for us!

09/23/2020

Today is the feast day of St. Padre Pio, one of the most beloved saints of the Church. He bore the stigmata, the Wounds of Christ, for 50 years, and is a model of prayer and humility.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-pio-of-pietrelcina-603

09/21/2020

Catholics, including some local priests, have said a proposed diocesan catechetical curriculum in Australia promotes views on gender identity and human sexuality at odds with Church teaching.

09/21/2020

St. Matthew, great evangelist and proclaimer of the Gospel, pray for us!

09/21/2020

"Friends, as Catholics, we don’t help others because it makes us feel good. We help others because Jesus calls us to do it. Because Jesus himself did it." - Archbishop José H. Gómez

“Friends, as Catholics, we don’t help others because it makes us feel good. We help others because Jesus calls us to do it. Because Jesus himself did it.”

09/21/2020

Saint Matthew, apostle and evangelist - Feast

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 9,9-13.

9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
10 And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
12 But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
13 Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

09/21/2020

Pope Francis told children with autism spectrum disorder Monday that everyone is beautiful in God’s eyes. 

09/21/2020

Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates the call of Matthew. Jesus tells the tax collector, “Follow me.”

The call of Jesus addresses the mind, but it moves through the mind into the body, and through the body into the whole of one’s life, into the most practical decisions. “Follow me” has the sense of “apprentice to me” or “walk as I walk; think as I think; choose as I choose; see as I see.” Discipleship entails an entire reworking of the self according to the pattern and manner of Jesus.

Upon hearing the address of the Lord, Matthew “got up and followed him.” The Greek word behind “got up” is “anastas,” the same word used to describe the Resurrection (“anastasis”) of Jesus from the dead. Following Jesus is indeed a kind of resurrection from the dead, since it involves the transition from a lower form of life to a higher.

Those who have undergone a profound conversion tend to speak of their former life as a kind of illusion, something not entirely real. The father of the prodigal son can say, “This son of mine was dead, and has come to life again.” So conversion is an “anastasis,” a rising from death.

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092120.cfm

09/21/2020