An assistant to Pope Francis reached out last week indicating the Pope wanted to learn more about how NBA players had brought attention to social justice issues and economic inequality. 🙏 🏀
Important data that should be widely communicated. There are significant concerns from the disability community re the latest proposed euthanasia legislation in Canada that is being fast tracked through Parliament.
“I am afraid that we are tempted to build a human church, according to the times and according to our ideas. But the Church is not ours "- Cardinal Robert Sarah
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If the West had not become Christian, atheist author Tom Holland writes, “no one would have gotten woke.”
A growing # of atheists are coming to grips with the fact that, without Christianity, the world would be very, very dark.
https://t.co/Hywk5HGcEj
St. Augustine’s invites you to join our online Holy Spirit Novena Retreat. For all lay people, religious and clergy looking to deepen their spiritual life, and their relationship with the Holy Spirit. May 22, 2020. Visit our Facebook page for details: https://t.co/RVDEKiW7Yy
#NEWS: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis will offer an extraordinary blessing of Urbi et Orbi on Friday, March 27, 2020 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time (6 p.m. Rome time) https://t.co/vHrYC8UIDj
A very necessary prayer in present times:
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
-St. Theresa of Avila
Not sure what to do about a strange priest who keeps saying Mass in my living room.
Surely the consecration of peanuts is invalid even at the time of coronavirus.
NEW: Vatican announces that Holy Week/Easter Sunday celebrations will take place “without the physical presence of the faithful” and are expected to be live-streamed instead.
Unprecedented in modern times.
https://t.co/iXZmvbdmjw
In his prayer to Our Lady, Pope Francis calls Mary “Health of the Sick”, adding that she kept her faith firm as she stood near the Cross as Jesus suffered. Let us all lean into our faith together and continue to pray for the sick and their caregivers. #COVID19#PopeFrancis
Friends.
Stay steady.
Take a deep breath.
Do not give in to fear.
Serve and pray for others.
Set your heart right with God.
This is not the end of the story.
All shall be well.
#coronapocalypse#FridayThoughts#FridayFeeling
Pope Francis' prayer to Our Lady, Health of the Sick, for protection during the Covid-19 pandemic:
We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
The full statement from @archtoronto Cardinal Collins cancelling public Mass for this weekend. Churches will remain open for private prayer. This was an extremely difficult decision to make trying to balance safety with the desire to make sacraments available... 1...
In today’s Gospel Jesus commands us to love our enemies.
And Jesus showed us how to do it. Immediately after being fixed to the cross, he said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”
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