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At a Mexico market, Baby Jesus prepped for Candlemas
The celebration marks 40 days after Jesus was born and was taken to the temple to be presented to God.
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Podcast: ‘Jim Lawson shows us how to lead with love and do no harm,’ says Emily Yellin
On this week’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear hosts writer Emily Yellin, coauthor of the new posthumous memoir by Civil Rights leader the Rev. James Lawson.
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Background: World Day for Consecrated Life (CWN)
February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is also the 30th World Day for Consecrated Life, a commemoration instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997.
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Pope marks World Day for Consecrated Life, calls on religious to be prophets (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica this evening (booklet, video) and called upon consecrated men and women “to be prophets—messengers who announce the presence of the Lord …
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Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
When the days were completed for their purificationaccording to the law of Moses,Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalemto present him to the Lord,just as it is written in …
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SSPX to ordain new bishops (CWN)
The superior general of the Society of Saint Pius X announced today that the Society’s bishops will consecrate new bishops on July 1.
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St. André Bessette—We ought to love the Blessed Virgin; …
We ought to love the Blessed Virgin; she is the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. We should implore “Hail Mary.” — St. André Bessette
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Feb. 2 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Feast
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas Day, since the …
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Pontiff fills see that was vacant for 13 years (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Manuel Nin Güell, OSB, as apostolic exarch of the Territorial Abbacy of Saint Mary of Grottaferrata in Italy.
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15 US bishops urge Senate to reject ICE funding (EWTN News)
Fifteen US bishops, led by the archbishops of Santa Fe and Seattle, expressed their “deep opposition” to an appropriations bill to fund US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “We cannot …