As feast days go, this Sunday is one of the more unusual ones on the church calendar: the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.
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The message of this Gospel offers something for everyone. It offers consolation and reassurance for those who feel small and overlooked; and it’s also a cautionary tale for those who …
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Scripture Readings for Oct. 12, 2025, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 5:14-17Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-42 Tm 2:8-13Lk 17:11-19 A writer once said that the two most popular prayers …
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Once the Easter season is over and the baskets and bonnets are packed away, we’re still “Easter people.” Pentecost endures.
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If we haven’t gotten enough of Christmas lights already this season — on houses, trees, bushes, department stores — this Sunday we are absolutely festooned with them. The reading, from …
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(OSV News) — For most of us, New Year’s Day means both celebrating what’s ahead and learning from the year that’s ending. For Catholics, it’s seeing the past year not …
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Jb 7:1-4, 6-7Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-61 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23Mk 1:29-39 We’ve all been there. At the end of a long day, the phone rings, there’s a knock on the door, …
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The Epiphany of the Lord | Mt: 2: 1-12 Right about now, people are usually “so over” Christmas. They’ve tossed the trees to the curb, thrown the unwanted gift cards …
