Sts. Perpetua and Felicity died on March 7, 203The annals of the Church are full of examples of courageous Catholic women, but few can rival the tale of a young nursing mother and a pregnant woman who showed such fierce courage in the face of death that even the hardest Roman soldiers were brought to their knees.
The story of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, whose feast we celebrate today, was recorded by the hand of Perpetua herself as well as others who knew the women. This account, known as "The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity," was so popular in the early centuries that it was often read during liturgies.
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Experts are warning that if the contentious HHS mandate is permitted to stand, it will force the closure of 13 percent of U.S. hospitals and reduce the number of available beds by 120,000.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The pro-contraception lobby is continuing to present alleged victims of the Church's fight over the government's plan to force them to offer insurance that covers birth control, with the latest being a nurse in a Catholic hospital who claims she plans to stay on her parent's insurance policy because her birth control is too expensive and her health plan doesn't cover it.
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“If God should choose a soul in which to accomplish an extraordinary work, He is in no way bound to enlighten the soul so that it may understand the means whereby the work will be accomplished. But He does condescend to ask that soul’s generous correspondence with Him…”
For Reflection:
How does this quote apply to Our Lady? How does it apply to me? On a scale of 1 to 10, to what extent do I believe nothing is impossible with God? To what extent do I believe this is true in my own life?
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During a recent interview, the head of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed the way it mocks Jesus.
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In spite of the fury that surrounded the announcement of the anti-Christian sitcom,
Good Christian Bi----s, ABC only agreed to change the name to
GCB but went ahead with the launch of the raunchy new series that not only uses the "b-word" to denigrate women but blasphemes Christianity as well.
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A heroic Spanish nun who fought for women's rights long before it was fashionable will be declared a saint on October 21, 2012 after the Vatican approved the miraculous healing of a three year-old Brazilian girl who was suffering from a brain condition.
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The sacraments, those masterpieces of divine ingenuity, were instituted not only to dower our souls with the riches of Heaven, but also to smooth for us the path of Christian righteousness so that we might run the way of God’s commandments with enlarged hearts and with a joy that earth knows not.”
For Reflection: Following this quote, Father Kane gives us four effects of the sacraments that help us live this lesson as perfectly as did Our Lady who did not need the Sacraments to aid her. He tells us they should:
- detach us from the world
- make us “labor for the meat which endureth unto life everlasting” (John 6:27)
- annihilate our natural selves
- make us ardent lovers of Christ crucified
How have I experienced these benefits through the Sacraments of the Church?
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter on Friday to all U.S. bishops of the United States reasserting the conviction of the Catholic Church that it will not yield to the Obama administration’s command to provide free birth control insurance to its employees, but not one of the major news outlets covered the story.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe travesty surrounding the testimony of a Georgetown law student who claims she'll go broke if the government doesn't mandate free birth control continues as a background check reveals she's actually a reproductive rights activist who enrolled at the Catholic university with every intention of challenging it's contraceptive-free insurance policy.
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