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Happy Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

Today the Virgin is born, tended and formed and prepared for her role as Mother of God, who is the universal King of the ages.

Let there be one common festival for saints in heaven and men on earth.

Let everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration.

Today this created world is raised to the dignity of a holy place for him who made all things. The creature is newly prepared to be a divine dwelling place for the Creator.
—St. Andrew of Crete

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🖼️ Andrea di Bartolo — "The Nativity of the Virgin"

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Our friars are honored to serve as university chaplains across the province, ensuring that students, faculty, and staff have access to the sacramental life of the Church and the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition.

📸 University of Louisville Catholic Campus Ministry

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The fall semester is in full swing!

📸 The Catholic Center at NYU

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The human mind naturally seeks God, but the fallen human mind tends to run from God, to search for happiness in anything except Him. Metanoia is the solution - listen to the full episode to learn more!

Learn about the third Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, the Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, in episode 9 of Into the Mysteries of the Rosary. Join Fr. James Brent, O.P. as he meditates on God’s love for us, wherever you get your podcasts.

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When we come to Jesus in the parish, Jesus Himself is the thing that we seek, because we don’t get Jesus outside of the Sacraments.

All of our Lord’s activity is Sacramental in nature. It’s oriented, configured around, communicated through the Sacraments.
—@cajetancuddy | @ect_catholic

Watch Fr. Cajetan's homily for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: https://t.co/IFnHgily0w

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The life of Christ within us is meant to transform our whole lives. As grace grows in our souls, we are called to die daily to sin and all that keeps us from abiding fully in Christ.

Listen to Episode 61 of Contemplata with Fr. James Brent, O.P. https://t.co/flGtJk6Ef7

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“Go and tell my brothers that I am going to your Father and my Father.” Truly the Father of Jesus Christ is now our Father too.

Learn about the third Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, the Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, in episode 9 of Into the Mysteries of the Rosary. Join Fr. James Brent, O.P. as he meditates on God’s love for us, wherever you get your podcasts.

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The life of Jesus shines most brightly in his Resurrection. Christ conquered death and rose to an immortal, unending life, the very life he came to share with us. Listen to Episode 61 of Contemplata with Fr. James Brent, O.P. https://t.co/flGtJk6Ef7

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta! What follows is an excerpt from the last letter of Mother Teresa to the Missionary of Charity sisters.

My dearest Children,

This brings you Mother’s love, prayer and blessing that each one of you may be only all for Jesus through Mary. I know that Mother says often – “Be only all for Jesus through Mary” – but that is because that is all Mother wants for you, all Mother wants from you.

If in your heart you are only all for Jesus through Mary, and if you do everything only all for Jesus through Mary, you will be a true Missionary of Charity. Thank you for all the loving wishes you sent for the Society Feast.

We have much to thank God for, especially that He has given us Our Lady’s spirit to be the spirit of our Society. Loving Trust and Total Surrender made Our Lady say “Yes” to the message of the angel, and Cheerfulness made her to run in haste to serve her cousin Elizabeth. That is so much our life – saying “Yes” to Jesus and running in haste to serve Him in the poorest of the poor.

Last year was the Golden Jubilee of Inspiration Day, and I hope that the whole year has been one of thanksgiving. We will never come to the end of the gift that came to Mother for the Society on that day, and so we must never stop thanking for it.

Let our gratitude be our strong resolution to quench the Thirst of Jesus by lives of real charity – love for Jesus in prayer, love for Jesus in our Sisters, love for Jesus in the poorest of the poor – nothing else.
—St. Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa, pray for us!

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The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand, and all God’s promises will now come to fulfillment.

Learn about the third Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, the Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, in episode 9 of Into the Mysteries of the Rosary. Join Fr. James Brent, O.P. as he meditates on God’s love for us, wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/XkJ7kzeLF7

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Telling a stranger—or, perhaps worse, someone you know—the bad things (sometimes very bad things) you have done is rarely a pleasant experience. So the popularity of confession at Dominican parishes may mystify many in the secular world.

Yet for the penitent, this experience leads to happiness, due in part to the Dominican Friars’ approach to the sacrament.

Fr. Raymond La Grange, O.P., who served as a parochial vicar at the Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer before returning to further graduate studies, explained that the Dominicans’ theological emphasis on happiness through developing virtue shapes how they guide the penitent through the sacrament.

“You want to be happy because you’re a human, and that’s what humans do. Your ultimate happiness is in God, but you’re trying to place your happiness in something else,” he said. “So can we help you see the truth and go toward it?”

Read more here: https://t.co/7XSrtWYW3n

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church!

Some people are so simple that they do not know what uprightness is. Theirs is not the true simplicity of the innocent: they are as far from that as they are far from rising to the virtue of uprightness.

As long as they do not know how to guard their steps by walking in uprightness, they can never remain innocent merely by walking in simplicity. This is why St Paul warns his disciples I hope that you are also wise in what is good, and innocent of what is bad but also Brothers, you are not to be childish in your outlook, though you can be babies as far as wickedness is concerned.

Thus Christ our Truth enjoins his disciples with the words Be cunning as serpents and yet as harmless as doves [Mat. 10:16]. In giving them this admonition, he had to join the two together, so that both the simplicity of the dove might be instructed by the craftiness of the serpent, and the craftiness of the serpent might be tempered by the simplicity of the dove.

So then: when Job is said to have feared God, it is rightly related that he also shunned evil. Fear comes first and charity follows later; and when that has happened, the offense which is left behind in the mind is trodden underfoot by the desires of the heart.
—St. Gregory the Great | Excerpt from "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions"

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🖼️ Master of Portillo — "The Mass of Saint Gregory the Great"

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Resuscitation restores mortal life, but resurrection brings something entirely new. Christ did not simply return to the life he had before. In his Resurrection, he entered an immortal, unending life, never to die again.

Listen to Episode 61 of Contemplata with Fr. James Brent, O.P.
https://t.co/2JHg6AuGja

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Fr. John Baptist Hoang, O.P., chaplain at the University of Louisville, explains how we can find rest in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

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Mary is the mother of mercy. She hastens to help us in every situation, just like in the Bible passage describing the Wedding at Cana.

Learn about the second Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, the Wedding at Cana, in episode 8 of Into the Mysteries of the Rosary. Join Fr. James Brent, O.P. as he meditates on God’s love for us wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/XkJ7kzeLF7

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The month of September is dedicated to the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Mary’s example is not one of wallowing in misery. It instead drives the Church toward the real treasure that lies beneath the tears. We celebrate this sorrow because it reveals true love. We are sorrowful because that is what love does when faced with evil.

Because of this love, we look upon Christ as he hangs on the cross, a cause of immense sorrow and yet the greatest instrument of love. We see him not only as a victim, but also as our Savior. Mary looked upon her Son in the same way, and it was this sight she treasured in her pierced heart.
—Fr. Bertrand Hebert, O.P.

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To share in the life of Christ is to die daily to sin so that his resurrection life may grow within us. As grace takes deeper root in our souls, we come to share more fully in the life he came to give us.

Listen to Episode 61 of Contemplata with Fr. James Brent, O.P.
https://t.co/2JHg6AuGja

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The Resurrection was something entirely new. Christ rose to an immortal human life, completely permeated by the divine life of the eternal Son of God, a life he desires to share with us.

Listen to the full Episode 61 of Contemplata with Fr. James Brent, O.P. https://t.co/2JHg6AuGja