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Election Abortion Life Catholic Issues

Posted by Bob on October 28, 2008

Fr Pablo Straub has made a series of videos that have been uploaded to Youtube regarding this election. As of this writing there are 10 in this series, and it’s possible that more will be added. They have been gathered into a playlist, which makes it easier to view the videos in series. See below.

Nevermind. I can’t embed it here for some reason. Just CLICK HERE to get to the first video in an autoplay playlist.

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Daily Bible Readings Tuesday October 28 2008 Feast of Sts Simon and Jude, Apostles

Posted by Bob on October 28, 2008

October 28 2008 Tuesday Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
Saint of the Day – Sts. Simon and Jude

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/102808.shtml

Ephesians 2:19-22
Haydock New Testament

Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow-citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God: Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: In whom all the building framed together, growth into a holy temple in the Lord; In whom you also are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm 18:2-5 (Ps 19 NAB)
DR Challoner (Text Only)

The heavens shew forth the glory of God,
and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.
Day to day uttereth speech,
and night to night sheweth knowledge.
There are no speeches nor languages,
where their voices are not heard.
Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth:
and their words unto the ends of the world.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 6:12-16
Haydock New Testament

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God. And when it was day, he called his disciples: and he chose twelve of them, (whom also he named apostles: ) Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew, his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon, who is called Zelotes: And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

Haydock Commentary Ephesians 2:19-22
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

  • Ver. 19. You are no longer strangers with regard to God and his holy alliance. You are no longer travellers and vagabonds, without a God, as you were before your conversion; not knowing to whom you belonged, nor finding in paganism either solid foundation or truth, neither hopes for this nor consolation for future life. But now you are become citizens of the same city as the saints, and domestics of the house of God. Calmet.
  • Ver. 20. The Church is in this place said to be built upon the apostles and prophets; why not then upon S. Peter?

Haydock Commentary Luke 6:12-16

  • Ver. 13. These twelve Christ chose as individual companions and domestics. To these he committed the charge of founding and governing his Church. He sent them as legates, or ambassadors, (for this is the import of the word apostle) to all the world. Hence their power was more universal than that of bishops, which is confined to their own dioceses or districts. The jurisdiction of the apostles was not limited to place. Tirinus. This power which Jesus Christ delegated to his apostles, and which was for the benefit and regulation of the universal Church in all future ages, the apostles, in their turn, delegated to their successors in the ministry, with such regulations and limitations as have been judged in the Holy Ghost necessary for the proper government of the spiritual kingdom of God upon earth. And it is the height of presumption to question any ordinations that come to us with the authority of the Catholic Church: for, “whatever the Church says, is true; whatever she permits is lawful; whatever she forbids, is evil; whatever she ordains, is holy; whatever she institutes, is good.” S. Augustine. How futile then is the objection of Calvin, who pretends that an apostle, being nothing but a legate, can make no laws, nor prescribe or teach any thing not expressed in his mandatum! Calvin, Inst. l. iv. c. 8.
  • Ver. 16. Judas, surnamed Thaddeus in S. Matt. x. 3. and in S. Mark iii. 18. At the head of his epistle he styles himself Judas, brother of James. V.

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