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Professor Michael Barber from John Paul the Great Catholic University reflects on today's Mass Readings for the Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Liturgy Reflection: Sunday, August 2, 2009 from JP Catholic University on Vimeo .

and How to Live it is up at Living Catholicism this week . Jay has organized a wide array of wonderful posts there. Here are just a few of my favorites there: The Mary Moments Carnival is posted at Behold Your Mother . This week they present posts about The Saints and Mary . It's a good collection of posts on Our Lady. Mothers of Many Saints challenges you in Being Pro-Life Outside of the Ballot Box . Besides voting pro-life, how else do you live your pro-life beliefs? Evangelization is what we really need to end abortion and this post explains why. CatholicLand! 's post What Dreams May Come pulls the best paragraphs from the conversion story of Serbia notorious abortionist. If you haven't read this, read it. It is a powerful account. A Catholic View is amused because Kmiec says he will change his pro-Obama position if the Pope tells him to do so . Kmiec is a Catholic who is prominently supporting president-elect Obama. This post points out that the Pope has already bee...

Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Mass Readings Saint of the Day: St. Peter Morrone (Pope Celestine V) The Divine Office via Universalis. On This Day in Catholic History 715 - St. Gregory II began his reign as Catholic Pope. 1296 Pietro di Murrone, former Pope Celestine V, died in the castle of Fumone, where he was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII. 1998 Bandits stole three of Rome's most important paintings, two by van Gogh and one by Cezanne, from the National Gallery of Modern Art. US History Highlights on This Day: 1994 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64. 2005 "Revenge of the Sith," the final chapter of the "Star Wars" saga, opened in movie theaters.

Today's Mass Readings Meditation Saint of the Day: Saint Guntramnus (Contran)

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Today is Wednesday the Fifth Week of Lent. Mass Readings Catholic Culture has a beautiful Meditation on Forgiveness: We must forgive our neighbor always. This fraternal charity is the source of strength among the members of the Mystical Body: "If two of you shall consent upon earth concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father." This charity should animate us in giving fraternal correction, which should always be free from all vanity, self-love and desire to humiliate and defame. The Church dispenses Christ's forgiveness through the power of the keys: "whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven." Christ's pardon of us is limitless. Just as the small quantity of oil, increasing miraculously at the word of Elias, enabled the poor widow to pay all her debts, so the infinite merits of Christ enable us to expiate all our sins. Love of God and of neighbor imposes on us constant self-denial and self-...

Lenten Reflection for Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Today's Mass Readings and Homily Today in Catholic History 1378 Gregory XI , the last French (Avignonese) pope, died (b. ca. 1336).