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TUESDAY HOMILY: Acting with Urgency to the Lord's Authoritative Word

By Fr. Roger J. Landry | September 3, 2013

During this Year of Faith, it's key for us to grasp that if even demons recognize the authority of Jesus' words and involuntarily obey them, then believers likewise must recognize that authority and voluntarily obey them.

Pope Francis to Lead World in Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace

By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 3, 2013

Brothers and sisters, I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church on 7 September next, the vigil of the birth of Mary, Queen of Peace, a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.On 7 September, in Saint Peter's Square, here, from 19:00 until 24:00, we will gather in prayer and in a spirit of penance, invoking God's great gift of peace upon the beloved nation of Syria and upon each situation of conflict and violence around the world. Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace! I ask all the local churches, in addition to fasting, that they gather to pray for this intention. (Pope Francis)

Labor Day and Christians: The Dignity of Human Work is Found in the Worker

By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 3, 2013

On this Labor Day weekend most of us take a break from what we sometimes call our day jobs. It is a unique secular holiday with profound Christian potential. Many gather for late summer cookouts and celebrations. Perhaps we get to sleep in a bit later than usual and relax from the frenzied pace of our contemporary pattern of living. For many parents, Labor Day weekend marks the transition from the hectic pace of the summer to the new hectic pace of the school year. For Christians, Labor Day can - and should - be about much more than taking a break from work. We are invited to reflect upon the dignity of work, which is derived from the dignity of the worker.

MONDAY HOMILY: Jesus and the Synagogue

By Fr. Stephen B. Reynolds | September 2, 2013

Jesus' participation in the synagogue and Temple rites served to emphasize the importance of divine worship and the absolute necessity of entering into communion with God.

Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty

By Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse | September 3, 2013

In the long run, Christians won't be prosecuted for objecting to homosexual marriage as such. They will be prosecuted for denying that the State has the power to define what is morally licit under the legal rubric of civil rights. We are one step closer to the catacombs. Bishops, priests and deacons need to take special note because they will become the first targets of the coming hostility in order to demoralize the faithful. Clergy who today still hope for compromise with the homosexual cultural agenda must recommit to the moral tradition and bear the scorn that comes with defending it.

Humility, Choosing to Take the Lowest Place

By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 3, 2013

When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, 'Give your place to this man, 'and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, 'My friend, move up to a higher position.' Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself, will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself, will be exalted.

Responding to Jesus, the 'I love you' of God

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | September 3, 2013

Jesus is the Ego amo te, the "I love you" of God to man. It requires a response from us. By an act of faith and love inspired by grace, an "I love you, too," we can appropriate that divine offer of love. In so doing, we will be able to say, "We love, because He first loved us."

Forced Abortion of 9 Month Old Child in China: Obama Administration Complicity

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 31, 2013

Sadly, because the Maoist Atheists currently ruling mainland China wear business suits, smile a lot, and hold commercial paper which represents a substantial amount of American I.O.U.'s, few politicians in either major political party have the courage to call them out for their egregious human rights abuses. The treatment of children as commodities in China, products to be accumulated only with the permission of the Central Government, seems horribly unjust to most observers, and rightly so. However, at its root, is it that different than the current abortion culture of the West? We need to be honest if we ever hope to end this evil scourge

Persecuting Christians: The Rise of Judicial Imperialism in the Emerging Imperial State

By Keith A. Fournier | August 31, 2013

Some Judges have simply aligned with the Cultural Revolutionaries who seek to remake the West. They have now joined with others in the executive and legislative branch in misusing their delegated authority in the United States of America. They pay little attention to the Constitution of the United States. They pay less to the Natural Moral Law which informed it. They have decided they are the new arbiters of what is now to be considered "moral"; the interpreters of what is acceptable and thus the detrminers of what is legal in a culture which has rejected the existence of objective truths by rejecting the very existence of a Natural Moral Law

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