FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION... NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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Newly built church in refugee camp lifts Christians' spirits in Iraq

Will You Say #iGiveCatholic This Giving Tuesday?

Mission abandoned: did we betray John XXIII's vision for Vatican II?

The Light in Meditations for Advent

Jesse Tree Ornaments Offer Opportunity for Advent Family Prayer














Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle

St. Andrew Christmas Novena Begins

Our Lady's Dowry: New Ordinariate Missal Makes History as Advent Begins

17th-century Nuns On the Run

Today's Mass Readings

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION... NOVEMBER 29, 2015

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The Coming of Advent

Preparing Our Hearts for Advent

Welcome Advent Into Our Deepest Void

Jesus, the Branch

Is "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" Anti-Semitic?












10 Tips for a Peace-Filled Advent

Advent Brings Angels: As Real as Radio Waves

4 Ways to Bring Mary and Joseph Into Your Advent

Mary & The Advent of God's Healing Mercy

Today's Mass Readings

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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT - CANDLE OF HOPE

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O God, by whose word all things are sanctified, pour forth Thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who use it may prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Thee abundant graces. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life: and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him. He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people. Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. And he shall continue with the sun, and before the moon, throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth. In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken sway. And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honorable in his sight. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day.




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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION... NOVEMBER 25, 2015

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"By the goodness of God, we are so far from want…": A Thanksgiving Homily

ISIS, Liberal Democracy, and the Holy Catholic Church: A Call to Arms

Why You Should Read St. Gregory of Tours

Major changes coming for Roman Curia

Of Decadence, Catholicism, & Duck Confit








St. Catherine of Alexandria

St. Catherine of Alexandria: A Guide in Our Call as Christian Witnesses

The Evolving Legacy of Pius XII: 15 Questions for Ronald J. Rychlak

10 Handmade Christmas Gifts From Monks and Nuns

Today's Mass Readings

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THIS DAY IN TWITCHY: NOVEMBER 24, 2015



NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 on the Syria-Turkey border; Pilots captured by rebels?


Putin unloads on 'ally of the terrorists' Turkey; Calls downing of jet a 'stab in the back'

What are you thankful for this year? Answer: Not spending 'Thanksgiving with anybody who writes for ThinkProgress'

'Full of morons': DNC tries to politicize Thanksgiving, cries 'unclw'



Paul Krugman blog post includes photo of White House situation room with photoshopped cat

'Solar panels will stop ISIS!!': President Obama ties attendance at global warming talks in Paris to defeating ISIS

POTUS quotes Emma Lazarus; Not quite yet calling for the Statue of Liberty to be torn down

'Go get 'em'! NRO's Kat Timpf is 'NOT SORRY' for pissing off 'totally insane' Star Wars fans

'Can we send her to find out?' Hillary says she believes in aliens

Suspended CNN reporter had tweet-on-request relationship with State Department?







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