Vol 12 Issue 6 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 9, 2019 ~ Saint Cyril of Alexandria

1.      What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2.      Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
3.      Saint Scholastica
4.      Family and Marriage
5.      Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Looks like China will be buying pigs from us in the year of the pig. Ha!

Authorities in China are scrambling to stem the rapid spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF), with more than 600,000 pigs culled in 22 provinces since August. MORE

Thanks to all the homeless in the area.

Apocalyptic weather is spreading its black wings.

Fourteen billion-dollar weather catastrophes hit the United States during 2018, according to data released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, costing the nation an estimated $91 billion. MORE

“Despite the diversity of cultures and traditions, the Christian and Islamic worlds appreciate and protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly, the education of the young, and others as well,” the pope told the crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience. MORE

This is a small victory for preaching to gays or those who want to go gender.

A federal magistrate judge this week recommended that a ban on conversion therapy in Tampa, be partially blocked, arguing it violates therapists’ free-speech rights under the First Amendment. MORE

Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost – July 8, 2012 by Monsignor Patrick J. Perez  or Lady Help of Christians Garden Grove, Ca.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

In today’s gospel, we have Our Lord feeding the multitudes on the loaves of bread and the fish which He miraculously multiplied. And this is not only a prefiguring of the Blessed Sacrament, meaning it’s a foreshadowing of it because you look at the language they used. He took the bread and giving thanks He broke it. Right? It starts out exactly like what?, you know. Last Supper. But then He gave it to the disciples to distribute to the people. He didn’t pronounce the words of Consecration over it. But notice at the end they collected the fragments. What do we do? We put the hosts that haven’t been consumed back into the Tabernacle. It was a prefiguring of that.

Now Francis-Bergoglio Says that Heresy Should Not Be Denounced
Because What the Catholic Church Does Is an “Obstacle to Mercy and Inclusion”