February 15, 2020 – Our Lady’s Saturday – Simple Feast
A Reader Asks: “Do the Writings of Mary of Agreda
Have Any Dogmatic Value, or Are They Merely Pious Speculations?”
From: Ann

Mary of Agreda’s Controversial Work Known in English as the “Mystical City of God” Purports to Describe Events As They Are Not Described in Sacred Scripture And Is Exceedingly Graphic In the Peculiar Mode Of Early Modern Spanish Catholicism The Nature of the Speculations

But now a new study conducted in older adults with hypertension and/or diabetes has found that drinking just two cups a day of cocoa for a month was associated with significant improvements in cognitive function and blood flow in the brain. MORE

PANAJI: Noted fashion designer Wendell Rodricks’ love for en .. MORE

The company has finished drilling its first-ever commercial project outside their own research and development. VIDEO

Targets: Primarily Asians. Males become sterile & twice infected may cause heart attacks. No known antidote. Has a gestation period of over four weeks.

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

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.