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We have changed a bit our title to include other
services that we offer in the web site. We hope
that this will help the searcher on the web with
a broader idea of what is in the web site. Though
the special focus of the web site still remains on
the writing of Catholic articles and the posting
of Catholic web logs.
This is a special post since it integrates two
of the liturgical week’s readings: the 34th Sunday
of the Year or the Solemnity of Christ the King,
and the 1st Sunday of Advent. We hope that it
will help you with as many ideas as you can gather
and discover as Thanksgiving, the Christmas and
the holiday seasons are coming soon!
This post features:
- Mary, the Blessed
Virgin Mother of Christ - All Saints’ Day Special
- Follow Up on More Saintly Stories - Towards the End to
a New Beginning - Site Message - Basic information on
Catholicism: RCIA program supplementary - 1-Lectionary Readings
for the Solemnity of Christ the King, Year C - Christmas Gift-Giving
Ideas - Gifts for the Holiday Season - Jesus in Paul’s
Writings: Knowing Jesus as “Lord” - 2-Lectionary Readings
for the 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A
Mary of Nazareth
As we will soon learn when the Advent season soon
arrives, Mary will be one of the prominent gospel
figures that will usher in the season and the new
liturgical year. Mary is well-loved by all Catholics
of all ages throughout the history of the faith.
Scholars say that this may have to do with the primal
emotion of people: that of the bond between the child
and its mother. Devotion to Mary then would be like
a logical extension of that strong bond between a
child of God and his spiritual mother, Mary. This
article tells about Mary, the virgin of Nazareth:
as she is portrayed in the New Testament and as she
is made the subject of honor and veneration by
Catholics - especially in her Assumption into heaven
and her being the Immaculate Conception. Some
scholars of those who study Mary - mariologists -
say that the devotion to Mary is a gift not given
to everyone. This may be the reason why many
Christians do not as yet value the role of Mary
in the history of salvation. Although some may not
value Mary’s role, in time, Mary will prove that
she does have an important role in our faith when
she ushers in the Second Coming of Christ [just as
she was instrumental in the first coming, the birth,
of Christ - St. Louis-Marie de Montfort]
All Saints’ Day Special
Here is a page to follow-up on our celebration of
All Saints Day last November 1. Featured on this
page are the stories of: Bernadette Soubirous,
Francis of Assisi, Philip Neri, Martin of Tours,
Fr. Damien, Therese of Lisieux, and Joseph of
Cupertino. Whether you prefer a book as a companion
for the stories of these saints or a movie to enthrall
you with miraculous scenes and acts of God, this page
will help you learn more about people in our Church
who lived their lives fully in the service of God
and His truth.
Towards a new Beginning
This is our liturgical year-ender message to inform
you that this coming Sunday is the last Sunday of the
liturgical year - the solemnity of Christ the King.
The liturgical year will begin on the 2nd of December
2007, the first Sunday of Advent, cycle A or year A of
the liturgical year. As the year is to end, we are
called to evaluate our Christian lives and see if our
objectives to do or be: for others, for our family,
for our self and for God, have been achieved. For
those times we have been successful, it is a time
for thanksgiving and sharing our blessings with others.
For those times we have ‘missed the mark’, let us be
sorry for them and try to be better next spiritual year.
The web site will continue to produce information as
it has done this present year and will try to introduce
new things as it deems fit for the theme of the site.
Keep tuned in to our rss feed.
Basic supplementary info
Part of the mission of our web site is to help those
persons who are undergoing the Rite for Christian
Initiation of Adults, or the RCIA program, with
supplemental articles that will give them additional
information on the basic topics to be known on the
Catholic faith before being baptized with the sacrament.
We already have written on more than half of the topics
in the program and will continue with the rest: on
Mary, Jesus in Paul’s Writings, Spirit, Christian
Morality, Commandments 1-3, Commandments 4-10, and
on Death, Judgment, Heaven. These topics will soon
be produced in the beginning of the new liturgical
year.
1-Lectionary Readings
This coming Sunday on November 25 will be the last
Sunday of the year and the solemnity of Christ the
King. The lectionary readings are taken from: the
book of Samuel, the letter of Paul to the Colossians,
and the gospel of Luke. In the book of Samuel, we
find David calling all the tribes to Hebron so that
they may make an agreement together with the Lord.
Then in the letter of Paul to the Colossians, Paul
emphasizes the divinity of Christ by letting us
understand Him as the image of the invisible God
and the first-born of all creatures - in whom
everything on heaven and on earth was created.
Lastly, in the gospel of Luke, we find Jesus on
the cross promising heaven to the repentant thief
- the one who seeks to be with Jesus when He enters
the Kingdom of Heaven.
Christmas Gift-Giving Ideas
Finding it hard to get more ideas for your Christmas
and holiday shopping? Let us help you discover some
for your intellectual or culinary friend. This page
has many gift ideas but two of special mention are
the photo-biography of Pope Benedict XVI and the
unique cookbook entitled, “Cooking with the Saints”.
Just browsing over the page can help you collect and
discover ideas early for the Christmas and holiday
season.
Jesus in Paul’s Letters
Knowing Jesus through Paul’s epistles gives us an
understanding of Jesus as He is related to all of
creation - especially as He is related to us as the
first-born of all creatures. Paul’s writings illuminate
how we understand Jesus in the gospels. Whereas the
gospels give us a provincial image of Jesus - One who
heals the sick and drives out demons, some of Paul’s
writings place Jesus in a cosmic context: not only as
Head of His Body, the Church, but also as “the image
of the invisible God…in Him everything in heaven and
on earth was created”. This article outlines thirteen
thematic points by which Paul helps us to know the
person of Jesus.
2-Lectionary Readings
Advent is a special time. It reminds us to be doubly
prepared: for the coming of Jesus this Christmas and
holiday season, and for the Second Coming of Jesus, of
which only the Father only knows. Advent begins our
liturgical year, and the cycle of readings are taken
from Year A. For the 1st Sunday of Advent, we have
readings from: the book of the prophet Isaiah, the
letter of Paul to the Romans, and the gospel of Matthew.
In the book of Isaiah, the prophet speaks of a time
of peace when the swords will be changed into plowshares.
Then in the letter of Paul to the Romans, we find Paul
alerting us to stay awake for we do not know when the
day of the Lord will arrive. Lastly, in the gospel
of Matthew, the message is similar to Paul’s letter
and speaks of the coming of Jesus as a repeat of
what happened in Noah’s time.
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