Blessed Sunday ...

O holy, patient, and loving God, in this season of grace-filled longing, we await the coming of your Son and our Savior. It is difficult for us to remember that this is a holy time. There are many distractions: commitments seem to pile up, and expectations are high. In the midst of our busy world, our busy lives, we need your help to remind us of what is important and necessary. While many of those things that we do not need will come to us in packages gleaming and bright, the one gift that will last comes from you alone, gracious God, as we grow in our awareness of your love. Bless us, our family and friends, and the food and the company that we share. Increase in us a growing urgency to celebrate the birth of your Son, in whose name we pray. Amen.




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Dear fellow Catholic Brothers and Sisters in Christ, this is a series called "Elements of the Catholic Mass" This is the first of 5 episodes. once you click on the link you will see how to access the other 4. Each is no longer than 3 and 1/2 minutes and very informative.



Blessed week ahead!

Let us not forget while we are preparing for Christmas, and enjoying the beauty and excitement of this time...that there are many for whom Christmas is a time of sadness, anxiety or depression.

Please let use keep them in our prayers that the One for whom we wait for brings them comfort and help...remembering that we are His body on earth... so let us be ready to give a smile or a kind work to all we see and meet...on the bus, in line at the store anywhere...especially if they seem not ones we would normally smile at...



Source: We Are Catholics

A blessed and happy feast of the Immaculate Conception!

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North Korea agrees regular visits by South Catholic priests
07/12/2015 13:06

South Korea's Catholic Church announced on Monday it had reached agreement with North Korea to send priests there on "a regular basis," seeking an opening in a country with a long history of tight religious control, AFP reported. The agreement, which should see priests leading services in Pyongyang on major holy days from next year, followed a visit to the North Korean capital by South Korean bishops last week. The announcement by the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Korea (CBCK) ‎came at the end of a 4-day visit to North Korea by a delegation of 4 bishops and 13 priests, on the invitation of Pyongyang's state-run Korean Catholic Association (KCA), which has no link with the Vatican.

Although religious freedom is enshrined in the North's constitution, all religious activity is subject to extremely tight restrictions and completely banned outside of state-sanctioned institutions. There is no resident Catholic priest anywhere in the country and just one Catholic church building in Pyongyang, Changchung Cathedral. But experts say it holds no confessions, baptisms or sacraments. There are also two Protestant churches, but there are no Catholic priests, ‎Protestant pastors or Buddhist monks in North Korea.‎

CBCK spokesman Lee Young Sik told AFP the first visit was scheduled for Easter in March 2016. "And then we will iron out details on how frequently they would visit and lead a mass there," Lee said.

‎In the early 20th century, Pyongyang was a regional missionary hub with scores of churches and a thriving Christian community that earned it the title of "Jerusalem of the East". The KCA claims to have 3 thousand members, but AsiaNews sources ‎estimate that there are less than ‎‎800 and these are mostly the very old people, baptized before the ‎Korean War (which broke out in 1950) ‎who have no way to practice their faith. In some special ‎occasions like Christmas, it is possible that the ‎faithful meet exchange a greeting of "peace", but nothing ‎more than thatThe North Korean regime allows Catholic organizations to run aid projects in North Korea, but direct relations with the Vatican are non-existent. When Pope Francis visited South Korea last year, he held a special mass in Seoul dedicated to reunification of the two Koreas. (Source: AFP/AsiaNews)

Source: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/07...priests/1192554

I just humbly need your prayer. What else ?

Huh????

lol... which part u don't understand ?

the similar bind & loose, catholic version, that i can found in internet is below
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=62076



This post has been edited by de1929: Dec 9 2015, 06:37 PM

Seriously, I have no idea what you are going on about.

have you read the catholic forum post i gave you ?

what has the link to do with what you posted originally?

i teach christian to use bind & loose and atheist got angry.

again, what has that to do with this page? ... oh, nvm. it's late.

Ergo ...

What to do? What to do?




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Pope Francis opens Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica, opens Jubilee

Pope Francis on Tuesday opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee of Mercy. The ceremony took place after he celebrated Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in St. Peter’s Square.



The rain did not keep the people away: Over 50 thousand arrived, including the President and Prime Minister of Italy, Sergio Mattarella and Matteo Renzi; as well as King Albert II of Belgium with Queen Paola.

Pope Francis, during his homily, highlighted the primacy of grace.

“Were sin the only thing that mattered, we would be the most desperate of creatures,” Pope Francis said. “But the promised triumph of Christ’s love enfolds everything in the Father’s mercy…The Immaculate Virgin stands before us as a privileged witness of this promise and its fulfilment.”

The Holy Father went on to say the Holy Year is “itself a gift of grace.”

“To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them,” he continued.

Pope Francis concluded his homily by saying “as we pass through the Holy Door, we also want to remember another door, which fifty years ago the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council opened to the world.”

Pope Francis said the anniversary cannot be remembered only for the legacy of the Council’s documents, but must also remember the “encounter” which happened at the Council.

“The Jubilee challenges us to this openness, and demands that we not neglect the spirit which emerged from Vatican II, the spirit of the Samaritan, as Blessed Paul VI expressed it at the conclusion of the Council” – he said – “May our passing through the Holy Door today commit us to making our own the mercy of the Good Samaritan.”

After Mass, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door to St. Peter’s, where he was met by his predecessor, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI, whom he embraced.

The Jubilee will continue this Sunday, when Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in his Cathedral, St. John Lateran, and bishops around the world open Holy Doors in their own Cathedrals, and other designated Churches.

Source: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/08...asilica/1192816

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