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On Divine Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about that terrible day

“Divine Mercy! Rah, rah, rah!”   Right? Right.   However… We have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, the Octave of Easter.  I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous … Read More

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WDTPRS “Low” Sunday, “Mercy” Sunday, “Quasimodo” Sunday, Sunday “in albis”

This Sunday has many nicknames.  In the post-Conciliar calendar it is the “Second Sunday of Easter (or of Divine Mercy)”.  It is also called “Thomas Sunday” (because of the Gospel reading about the doubting Apostle), and “Quasimodo Sunday” (from the … Read More

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PODCAzT 83: St. Augustine on the challenge of remaining faithful

In this simple PODCAzT, we will pry open St. Augustine’s sermon to newly baptized Catholics. He talks to them about the hardships they will face in remaining faithful under the onslaught of temptations presented by the unfaithful. In s. 376A … Read More

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