by Editor | Jan 28, 2020
Kansas City, Mo., Jan 28, 2020 / 09:31 pm (CNA).- Catholics in Missouri and across the country remembered Fr. Evan Harkins Tuesday as a good priest, and urged prayer for the repose of his soul.
The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph announced the priest’s death on Jan. 28.
Harkins “had apparently taken his own life,” the diocese said in a statement.
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by Matthew Hazell | Jan 28, 2020
At the end of last September in his apostolic letter Aperuit illis, Pope Francis declared that the third Sunday per annum in the Novus Ordo would be the “Sunday of the Word of God.” In his letter, the pope left the particular shape of any celebrations to local churches (not especially helpful to those of us who are sick of improvisation in the liturgy), but stressed that the word of God should be enthroned in some manner [i]. Consequently, the Vatican said in a press conference reported at Vatican News that “there will be the solemn enthronement of the Lectionary that was used in all the sessions of the Second Vatican Council” before the Papal Mass on this newly themed Sunday.
In the Vatican News story, this fact appears under the heading “Vatican II Lectionary to be enthroned.” If one was just skimming this news story, one might come away with the impression that it is the post–Vatican II lectionary that is being referred to here. After all, the title page of this book proclaims that it has been “renewed by decree of the most holy Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican” (ex decreto sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum). What else could “Vatican II Lectionary” refer to?
What should be recalled by everyone is that the “Vatican II Lectionary” is, in fact, the one used at the Council itself, before the liturgical reform: in other words, the traditional lectionary of the Roman Rite. The traditional lectionary, with its one-year cycle of readings that is pedagogically and psychologically much more suited to the lay faithful; the traditional lectionary that, through its yearly repetition of readings, allows those who participate in the liturgy to internalize the biblical text and make God’s word come alive in them [ii]; the traditional lectionary, which preserves the whole message of the Sacred Scriptures and has not been constructed to assist with the sanitizing of “hard” texts; [iii] the traditional lectionary, tried, tested, and proven in the lives of countless saints who have gone before us.
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by David Torkington | Jan 28, 2020
There is only one thing above all else that you must do if you want to be radically and permanently changed to become another living personification of Jesus Christ. That one thing is to find some daily time to pray in such a way that the same Holy Spirit who animated him can begin to animate you. It is only in this way that you will gradually be given all the virtues that are infused in profound contemplative prayer. read on….
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by cwlnational | Jan 28, 2020
National Chairperson of Spiritual Development Shari Guinta, January 28, 2020.
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October was Extraordinary Missionary Month. In a previous communiqué, I spoke about Catholic Missions In Canada’s (CMIC) Prayer for Canadian Home Missions and encouraged councils to participate in mission activities and promote awareness.
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by Msgr. Charles Pope | Jan 28, 2020
“The Garden of Eden” by Thomas Cole
One of the great mysteries of our life in this world is that we can endure more pain than pleasure. Indeed, we can endure only a little pleasure at a time. In fact, too much pleasure actually brings pain: sickness, hangovers, obesity, addiction, laziness, and even boredom. Yet we seem to be able to endure a lot of pain. Some of our pain, whether physical or emotional, can be very intense and go on for years.
Why is it that we can endure more pain than pleasure?
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by James Shaw | Jan 28, 2020
Homily Jesus gave us signs so that we would believe him and his good news.
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