ADVENT | The third Sunday of Advent is called "Gaudete," or the Sunday of joy, due to the first word of the preface of the Mass: Gaudete, meaning rejoice. On this date, rose-colored vestments are permitted, as a sign of joy, and the Church invites the faithful to rejoice because the Lord is near. There are two Sundays of the year when the color rose is permitted in vestments: the fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare) and the third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete), because in the midst of the "waiting," it is a reminder that the joy of Easter or Christmas, respectively, is near. In the Advent Wreath, a pink candle is also usually lit. Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11 At that time, 2John was in prison. When he heard about the works of Christ, he sent some of his disciples to him, 3to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” 4Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5the blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the …More
On 12 December, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow — a lesbian and a prominent progressive American voice — announced that she considers herself to have returned to the Catholic Church. She lives with an artist named Susan Mikula in a same-sex "marriage". According to TheLettersFromLeo.com, Maddow made these remarks during a question-and-answer session at a local event in Chicago. An audience member asked for her thoughts on the election of Pope Leo XIV. In her response, Maddow praised both Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV. The Church had just said goodbye to Pope Francis, when along came Pope Leo XIV, who shares Francis's passion for illegal immigrants. She said the timing was so perfect that it was "like it was just grown in a lab" against "cruelty to immigrants". Maddow was raised in a conservative Catholic family, but left the Church around 30 years ago for her homosexual lifestyle. Referring to her current outlook, she told the audience, "I do consider myself to be back in the faith". She …More
"19. There is not and there will never be, either in God's creation or in his mind, a creature in whom he is so honoured as in the most Blessed Virgin Mary, not excepting even the saints, the cherubim or the highest seraphim in heaven. Mary is God's garden of Paradise, his own unspeakable world, into which his Son entered to do wonderful things, to tend it and to take his delight in it. He created a world for the wayfarer, that is, the one we are living in. He created a second world - Paradise - for the Blessed. He created a third for himself, which he named Mary. She is a world unknown to most mortals here on earth. Even the angels and saints in heaven find her incomprehensible, and are lost in admiration of a God who is so exalted and so far above them, so distant from them, and so enclosed in Mary, his chosen world, that they exclaim: “Holy, holy, holy” unceasingly."
[Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort; XVII-XVIII Century AD; Montfort-sur-Meu, France/Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, France; (aged 43); Founder; Spiritual Writer] “II - To find the grace of God, we must discover Mary 17. Mary is the great mould of God, fashioned by the Holy Spirit to give human nature to a Man who is God by the hypostatic union, and to fashion through grace men who are like to God. No godly feature is missing from this mould. Everyone who casts himself into it and allows himself to be moulded will acquire every feature of Jesus Christ, true God, with little pain or effort, as befits his weak human condition. He will take on a faithful likeness to Jesus with no possibility of distortion, for the devil has never had and never will have any access to Mary, the holy and immaculate Virgin, in whom there is not the least suspicion of a stain of sin. 18. Dear friend, what a difference there is between a soul brought up in the ordinary way to resemble Jesus Christ by people who,…More
Ed Caughlan And Nathalie Calvo Opened A New Catholic High School For Boston This fall, a brand-new Catholic high school opened in metro Boston called the Chesterton Academy of the Immaculata. It’s part of a national organization called the Chesterton Schools Network. Headmaster Ed Caughlan and one of the founders and the Chair of the Board, Nathalie Calvo, join Bishop Robert P. Reed in the living room today. They talk about why G. K. Chesterton played a role in this school's conception, the hallmarks of a classical education, the faith enrichment opportunities available to students, having a school in MetroWest Boston, why it’s part of the larger Chesterton Schools Network, whether or not they accept transfer students, and where viewers can go to learn more. To learn more, click here: Chesterton Academy of the Immaculata | Boston, MA Subscribe to our YouTube channel: This Is The Day Donate to CatholicTV: Donate | CatholicTV
Obviously an old post - it's too late to pray that Francis die "repentant." that ship has sailed. While true that ONLY God judges & knows, it doesn't look good from what information we have.
The New German War Machine After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Photographs by Hannes Jung Listen to more stories on hark Updated at 8:59 p.m. ET on December 9, 2025 Sign up for ournewsletter about national securityhere. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical, with a red-tile roof. Parts of the German military were based there in World War II, and it’s where officers who plotted to kill Hitler in 1944 were executed by firing squad. Now the complex houses Germany’s defense ministry, which oversees the armed forces. I went to the Bendlerblock this past summer to meet with German military officials and see how they’re responding to an aggressive Russia and a mercurial America. Two sergeants escorted me to the office of Lieutenant General Christian Freuding. Explore the January 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find …
'What Australians actually got was a nationwide digital ID system. Starting December 10, every citizen logging into select online platforms must now pass through digital ID verification, biometric scans, face matching, and document checks, all justified as a way to keep under-16s off social media. Kids are now banned from certain platforms, but it’s the adults who must hand over their faces, IDs, and biometric data to prove they’re not kids. “Protecting children” has been converted into a universal surveillance upgrade for everyone.'
Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a “Their king will rise higher.” The king is the one of peace. The dominion is that of Love, which contains joy and peace. Matthew 21:23-27 “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?” God’s authority does not enslave but sets humanity free. Biblical texts: NAB-RE Normand Thomas.