The names of the righteous and unrighteous belong to history, each having to answer for the part taken.
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Joseph would have taught Jesus the Psalms, the prayer book of the Jewish people.
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Poignant memories of Good Friday 16 years ago carry special significance today.
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The upper room of the Last Supper – what we call now the “Cenacle” – is of supreme importance in the life of the Church.
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Some Jewish families were likely purchasing their Passover lambs when Judas went the chief priests and offered the Lamb of God for sale.
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“In your house I shall celebrate the Passover.” (Matthew 26:18)
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This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of a much less edifying Good Friday in the history of American Catholic culture.
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The purity of St. Joseph made him fitting to see God in his own household. The purity of St. John made him fitting to have the Blessed Virgin in his household.
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Jesus was at home at Bethany. Surely it reminded Him of the home in Nazareth, where the Holy Family dwelt together in the sweet scent of holiness.
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Jesus is the son of David, of the royal house of Israel’s greatest king. It is of greatest importance.
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It is impossible not to conclude that Henry’s office has been animated by a hostility to prayer and worship during the pandemic.
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The Holy Father’s German gamble failed. He led with an open hand and got a clenched fist in return.
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John Polkinghorne was a pioneer in quantum physics before resigning his academic post in 1979 to study for the Anglican priesthood.
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The English martyr, whose feast day is today, built ‘priest holes’ to protect persecuted clergy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Why not decide this year to make St. Joseph’s feast a holy day of obligation? It would be a fitting legacy of the Year of St. Joseph.
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Now that Canada’s legislators have got the medicine out of our suicide regime, it’s time to get the medical profession out, too.
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After Blessed Pius IX proclaimed St. Joseph the “Patron of the Universal Church” in 1870, his successors have turned their attention to St. Joseph in their own particular way.
From the outset there has been something strange with the Vatican’s non-rollout of the Year of St. Joseph. And it is creating another unnecessary controversy.
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