"When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the covenant I have made between Me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings" (1st Sunday of Lent, 2/18).

Chair of St Peter, Apostle

2/21, St Peter Damien

National Marriage Week &
World Marriage Day

Lent in the Holy Land 

Stations of the Cross

(Sign/Voice)

"After the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world the glorious coming of Christ will take place. Then will come the definitive triumph of God in the parousia and the Last Judgment. Thus the Kingdom of God will be realized" (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 134)

(Sistine Chapel)

• Redemptive Suffering (Catholic365, 2/11/24)

• "the Catholic Church’s celebration of World Marriage Day should direct our attention...yet recent events have left many Catholics concerned about whether the significance of marriage is being sidelined within the Church itself.... Over the past 50 years..., the annual number of Catholic marriages in the U.S. has decreased by nearly 70%, even as the Catholic population has increased by almost 20 million"   (Prioritize Marriage, Not Same-Sex Blessings, National Catholic Register, 2/8/24)

• Two religious kidnapped in Plateau State: in Nigeria questions are being asked about the complicity in the banking sector for the payment of ransoms (Agenzia Fides, 2/5/24)

• How Many Bishops Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? (Catholic365, 2/4/24)

• Nicaraguan dictatorship releases Bishop Álvarez, brother bishop, and priests (Catholic News Agency, 1/14/24)

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