Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 03-17-2021 (optional commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop, Missionary)
Altar, St. Patrick Cathedral, New York City
Readings at Mass
Thus says the Lord:
on the day of salvation I will help you.
(I have formed you and have appointed you
as covenant of the people.)
I will restore the land
and assign you the estates that lie waste.
I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out’,
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
On every roadway they will graze,
and each bare height shall be their pasture.
They will never hunger or thirst,
scorching wind and sun shall never plague them;
Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-31-2020, The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
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St. Francis Xavier Church, Cincinnati .
and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming,
so now many antichrists have appeared.
Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number;
if they had been, they would have remained with us.
Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
But you have the anointing that comes from the Holy One,
and you all have knowledge.
I write to you not because you do not know the truth
Deification: The Lost Doctrine Of The Early Church
December 10, 2020
Keith Giles
Yesterday I had a wonderful conversation with Father Kenneth Tanner. During our talk, he referenced a quote from Athanasius that got my wheels turning.
What he mentioned was that the early Church Father had taught something about the Incarnation of Christ being a journey, not an event in time, where Jesus became fully human only when he died on the cross.
That really got me thinking and so I started to dig into this quote, and into what the early Church Fathers believed about the Incarnation, and that led me to study more about what they believed about the process of Deification within humanity.
Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-13-2020, Memorial of Saint Damasus I, pope
Posted on Lectionary 8 because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of vindication by our God.
I rejoice heartily in the LORD, in my God is the joy of my soul; for he has clothed me with a robe of salvation and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, like a bride bedecked with her jewels.