(RNS) — Trump won the election. Places of worship must remain open during the pandemic. Antifa is more dangerous than white supremacists.
These views are standard among some evangelicals and Catholics.
But a new survey suggests that those views have permeated other religious groups, too, notably America’s small Orthodox Jewish community. MORE
Vol 14 Issue 8 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 20, 2021 ~ Lenten Feria
1. What is the Holy Eucharist
2. First Sunday in Lent
3. Saint Severian
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
The following announcements from Conciliar Church in Los Angeles is a warning to the Vatican II Catholic the direction their Church is taking them: The program is hosted as part of the ongoing Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue on Climate Change launched by the Parliament’s Climate Action Program and the Bernardin Center in 2020. MORE
A suspected oil tanker leak off the coast of Israel last week has led to Israel’s biggest maritime ecological disaster in many years, with authorities closing the country’s beaches and beginning a massive cleanup effort. MORE
Then into the scene walk two witnesses Who are they? Elijah? John the Baptist? We don’t know. These witnesses are lights before the powers of darkness. They’re filled with the Holy Spirit and have power over nature and the ability to strike the earth with plagues as often as they wish, which reveals God’s confidence in them. But then why does God allow the Antichrist to kill them? You’ll be so amazed at the answer. AUDIO
New York City appears like it will be in the thick of the heavy snow band set to envelop the region with 6 to perhaps 10 inches of snow predicted in Manhattan. Like the Steel City, the Big Apple has received nearly twice its normal seasonal snowfall to date with nearly 33.8 inches compared to a normal of 17.1 inches from Dec. 1 to Feb. 17. MORE
Mt Etna eruption, Catania, is my parents home town. On Ash Wednesday.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide that came to characterize political discourse in the U.S., has died, according to an announcement on his radio show Wednesday. MORE
Dr. J. Vernon McGee does it again on the Mighty Angel, He’s helping me again. On his last two shows, his accounts of Apocalypse 10:1-2, the Mighty Angel comes down from heaven wrapped in a cloud, with a halo And he had in his hand a little book, open. And he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the earth. A strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book. First of all, that’s the angel I have on the cover of my booklet, “The Day of the Lord and the Signs of His Coming,” The angel has full authority over ALL Creation.
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A crippling Arctic blast continued to wreak havoc across a large swath of the United States on Tuesday after a snowstorm left more than a dozen dead and millions without power, with officials in some places saying residents might be in the dark for days. MORE
“Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today with President Emmanuel Macron of France, and expressed her commitment to strengthening bilateral ties between the United States and France and to revitalizing the transatlantic alliance. MORE
Unless the mind and will are ready to believe in God’s absolute right to teach and command, there is little likelihood that fasting and penance with extra prayer will be followed carefully. The will must be free of self-interested desires and fears in order to bend the mind to ascent to an unseen God and to His whole mysterious order of salvation. Prejudices and sinful habits easily find excuses for refusing to submit to truth and self-discipline.
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