Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child,his brother must take the wifeand raise up descendants for his brother.’Now there were seven brothers.The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.So the […]
Today, June 1, is the memorial of St. Hannibal Maria di Francia. Founder of the Rogationists and the Daughters of Divine Zeal. Born in 1851 in Messina, Italy, Hannibal was the third of four children of Francis the Marquises of Saint Catherine of Jonio, a Papal Vice-Consul, a knight, and Honorary Captain of the Navy.
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Some Pharisees and Herodians were sentto Jesus to ensnare him in his speech.They came and said to him,“Teacher, we know that you are a truthful manand that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion.You do not regard a person’s statusbut teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.Is it lawful to pay the
Mary set outand traveled to the hill country in hasteto a town of Judah,where she entered the house of Zechariahand greeted Elizabeth.When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,the infant leaped in her womb,and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,cried out in a loud voice and said,“Most blessed are you among women,and blessed is the fruit of your
“One of those ways (for the soul to climb the summit of its perfection, according to English Carmelite Henry de Hanna) is that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit work in the soul with the glorious consequence that God is born in the soul and (that) He reveals Himself in it in
The eleven disciples went to Galilee,to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.Then Jesus approached and said to them,“All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father,and of
“It is a happy thought, at the Centenary of the proclamation of Mary’s Motherhood of God in Ephesus in 431 that we are celebrating, that we may see in that divine Motherhood also an image of the mystical act of grace, for which every child of Mary, and indeed especially the Sisters and Brothers of
Today, May 29, is the memorial of Pope Saint Paul VI. The future pope was born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in 1897. He was the son of a prominent newspaper editor. He was ordained in Brescia, Italy in 1920, continued his studies in Rome, and became part of the Vatican secretariat of state
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Jesus and his disciples returned once more to Jerusalem.As he was walking in the temple area,the chief priests, the scribes, and the eldersapproached him and said to him,“By what authority are you doing these things?Or who gave you this authority to do them?”Jesus said to them, “I shall ask you one question.Answer me, and I
“While the Divine Sun-fire radiates his glow whither He desires, it is the sun-yearning of the soul that draws the rays of the divine love-blaze into the heart of the flower, which continuously turns itself towards the Sun. However, just as the flower turns itself towards the sun, influenced by the sunrays themselves, the receptivity