While everyone associates July with fireworks, grilling, and American flags, Our Lord beckons us to commemorate a higher feast: the month-long devotion to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. The ...
07.01.2025 Thehayride.com and 3 sites0 --> It’s the Fourth of July. A day to remember the birth of a nation, yes–but not to forget the death and Resurrection of a King. To be authentically Catholic in America is to live in a tension that...
07.03.2025 Thehayride.comThe sacrament of the Anointing of the sick, or as it is sometimes referred to, The Last Rites, is based on the teachings of Scripture. In Mark 6: 13 we see that the apostles themselves performed this ...
06.28.2025 Catholic365.comBoston Public Library: Frieze Of Prophets ( Amon, Nahum, Ezekiel, And Daniel) / flickr When I was young, my primary understanding of the value of the prophets was in the way Christians believed they p...
06.30.2025 Patheos.comIf we thought holy water was powerful, what are 3 ways Catholics differ in our worship of the Precious Blood of Christ? 1. Holy Mass. At the last supper, Jesus words were clear, 'do this in memory of Me. ' He did not say take and eat/drink as a 'symbol' of Me through grape juice and crackers. These words came from the same Man who said, 'let your yes be yes, and your no be no (James 5: 12). Our most important prayer is the Holy Mass, defined as the unBLOODied sacrifice on Calvary. When the Holy ...
07.03.2025 Catholic365.comHis All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is not just a powerful and prophetic voice for peace and reconciliation, and for stewardship of the natural environment. He is also, among many other ...
07.01.2025 Archons.orgIllustration by Nick Little The rise of artificial intelligence presents a dazzling array of philosophical and ethical questions. What is intelligence? How does it differ from consciousness and person...
07.02.2025 Christianitytoday.comIn this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman re-reads Jean Améry on left anti-Zionism. He surveys the celebratory responses to t...
06.28.2025 Fathomjournal.orgJune 29: The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee. He was the son of Jonas and the brother of Andrew the First-called. He was a fisherman by trade, unl...
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