Vol 13 Issue 7 ~
Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 15, 2020 ~ Our Lady on Saturday
1. What is the Holy Eucharist
2. Sexagesima Sunday
3. Saint Onesimus
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Amazing the press’ choice of words. ‘Significant other’ ‘highly accomplished’ ‘ highly respected’, highly admired.’
“I want to get to a couple personal issues. Because you would be the first modern-day single president. But we all know in New York, you are not an eligible bachelor. Your significant other, Diana Taylor, is a very accomplished, highly respected, highly admired woman. Would she be our de facto first lady? Is she playing a role in your campaign?” Ms. King asked. MORE
Frank Losonsky, 99, died Thursday at home from natural causes, his son Chris told the Ledger-Enquirer in a phone interview Monday. No funeral service is planned, he said. MORE
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Father Mark White, a Catholic priest with the Diocese of Richmond, gets to keep his robe but he’s lost his voice. He’s been ordered into silence by the Richmond Diocese Bishop Barry Knestout after he expressed criticism online of the church’s handling of sexual abuse cases. MORE
A panel of three judges rejected a “more flexible view of marriage as a process rather than a single ceremony”, which was taken by a High Court judge in an earlier ruling on a case involving an Islamic marriage ceremony. MORE
So far, the US has confirmed 15 cases of the deadly coronavirus, including the latest patient, a quarantined individual in San Antonio, Texas, diagnosed Thursday. Eight of the patients are in California, where San Francisco International Airport is one of 11 through which all flights to the US from China are being funneled to screen passengers. MORE
The weekly report designates just over 9.5% of the state, including the central and southern Sierra Nevada and adjacent areas of the Central Valley, as being in moderate drought. MORE
Pope Valentine 827 ~ Father Valentine 269 2-14 ~ Bishop Valentine of Terni 269 2-14.
There’s a lot of confusion, actually, about St. Valentine, whose feast we celebrate today. The most popular legend places Valentine near Rome in the third century, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius III (nicknamed Claudius the Cruel).
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Peace be with you! The next two weeks will be a crucial time to suppress the epidemic. To avoid gatherings, the Diocese has decided to suspend all the public Masses on Sundays and weekdays for two weeks, including the Liturgy of Ash Wednesday, from the fifteenth to the twenty-eighth of February. Some Church members may be disappointed. However, I hope that everyone can understand this is not an easy decision.
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The families of three high school girls who run track and field in Connecticut are suing in an attempt to bar transgender students from competing in girls’ sports. VIDEO
“To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to,” his son Michael said in a statement on his Instagram account. VIDEO
