"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (John the Baptist, c 30 A.D.)

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8
Ineffabilis Deus: The Immaculate Conception (12/8/1854)

2nd SUNDAY OF ADVENT

SIGN/VOICE

from the 1st reading: 

"the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb" 

 from the Gospel: 

 "John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea & 

 saying, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!'.... 

 I am baptizing you with water [in the Jordan River]... 

for repentance, but the One who is coming after me 

 is mightier than I."

News

• 'Pregnant Workers' bill could force businesses to pay for abortions, trample religious liberty (LifeSite, 11/30/22)

• Telemedicine: A Good Thing Used for Evil (HALOVoice, 11/29/22)

• "it is of critical importance, as the number of the religious 'nones' grows by the millions every year, that we diagnose the true nature of the crisis so that our evangelization can understand its audience properly. And that crisis has not been caused by the Church’s countercultural views on various hot-button issues. It is rather a much deeper crisis of faith in the basic supernatural message of Christianity. It is, in other words, a crisis of a de facto atheism caused by the very cultural air we breathe in the West" (National Catholic Register, 11/29/22).

• US Catholic Bishops Conference Member of Pro-Abortion Immigrant-Rights Coalition (The Lepanto Institute, 11/28/22)

• No time to waste! Defend marriage! (11/19/22)

• Huge rise in number of Irish babies with Down Syndrome being aborted (Iona Institute, 11/28/22)

• Archbishop in Nigeria Lauds Catholic University for Honoring Country’s Murdered Twins (ACI Africa, 11/24/22)

• Catholic League: New Top Bishop Right to Link Abuse to Homosexuality (Breitbart, 11/20/22)
  

• Catholic Social Teaching (Catholic Stand, 11/13/22)

  Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."]  (USCCB)

Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons  (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National & International Issues

(October 2022 update)

President Joe Biden Has Turned a Blind Eye to the Killing of Christians in Nigeria.

Open Letter to Gov Newsom

Tell Disney to Drop Little Demon Television Series

New Jersey Matters

(August 2022 update)

Pennsylvania Matters

(October 2022 update)

Peace Be With You: Pregnancy Care Related Resources

Church leadership matters

(Click here for bishop contact info)

Ephphata

(If you have difficulties opening, be sure you are opening the "web version.")

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

 Through the Bible in One Year

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

 Laudate