STATIONS OF THE CROSS - Father Peffley

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHING ON THE …

1 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHING ON THE EUCHARIST The holy Catholic Church teaches that at the moment of the Consecration of the Mass, the bread and wine on the altar truly become the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of

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The Two Josephs - Father Peffley

was sold into slavery and owned nothing, and he was unjustly imprisoned for a few years. St. Joseph knew poverty as well. We are told in the gospels that he was a carpenter, a

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The Mystical Body of Christ - Father Peffley

Christ treats the Church, because it is his body and we are its living parts (Eph 5:30). We, who belong to the Church, are the living parts or members of Christ's body. "Christ is the head of the Church and saves the whole body" (Eph 5:23).

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Lent - Father Peffley

Everything You Wanted to Know about Lent What is Lent? Historically, Lent is the 40-day period before Easter, which the Church uses to prepare for the celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ’s Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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Prayers - USCCB

death.” (St. Alphonsus Ligouri) O Blessed Joseph, you gave your last breath in the loving embrace of Jesus and Mary. When the seal of death shall close my life, come with Jesus and Mary to aid me. Obtain for me this solace for that hour – to die with their holy arms around me. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I commend my

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Angela's Ashes A Memoir of a Childhood By Frank McCourt

to St. Gerard Majella, patron saint of expectant mothers. There is Nurse O'Halloran, the midwife, all dressed up in her finery. It's New Year's Eve and Mrs. O'Halloran is anxious for this child to be born so that she can rush off to the parties and celebrations. She tells my grandmother: Will you push, will you, push.

The Way of the Cross: Traditional and Modern ... - KofC

loved Via Crucis composed by Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, and a set of modern meditations composed by Father Stefano Penna, a priest of the Diocese of Saskatoon, Canada. The second Way of the Cross includes a “Fifteenth Station,” a meditation on Christ’s Resurrection, which should be omitted on Good Friday.

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The Devotion of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin ...

in Her soul.” …St. Alphonsus de Liguori. “Now, as the soul is more noble than the body, so much greater were Mary’s sufferings than those of all the martyrs, as Jesus Christ Himself said to St. Catherine of Siena: ‘Between the sufferings of the soul …

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