Celebrating the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus – What Did She Teach?
First Published: FreedomFitnessFinanceNewsletter.com Oct 02 2024As part of my daily practice in improving my life, I read the Scriptures. I highly recommend this practice. (READ: Improvement is a process that encompasses mind, body, and soul.) Today, on October 1, is the day of the celebration of the St. Therese of Lisieux. I encourage you to take a […]
Explaining the Saints: Forget Halloween! Happy All Saints’ Day!
Published at REAL BILLY LEE by Billy Lee True story! Years ago, I was on the elevated train in Chicago – known as the “L” among city dwellers. While reading a small prayer ? book ? about Saints, a fellow Chicagoan was inspired to declare to me that I was an apostate. He announced that I […]
Chris Hedges: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Permanent war requires permanent censorship. No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This […]
Daily Scripture Reading – 12 October 2024
Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 466 Reading 1 GAL 3:22-29 Brothers and sisters:Scripture confined all things under the power of sin,that through faith in Jesus Christthe promise might be given to those who believe. Before faith came, we were held in custody under law,confined for the faith that was to be […]
Daily Scripture Reading – 10 October 2024
Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 464 Reading 1 GAL 3:1-5 O stupid Galatians!Who has bewitched you,before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?I want to learn only this from you:did you receive the Spirit from works of the law,or from faith in what you heard?Are you so stupid?After beginning […]
Daily Scripture Reading – 9 October 2024
Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 463 Reading 1 Gal 2:1-2, 7-14 Brothers and sisters:After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas,taking Titus along also.I went up in accord with a revelation,and I presented to them the Gospel that I preach to the Gentiles–but privately to those of repute–so […]
Daily Mass Reading – 8 October 2024
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 462 Reading 1 GAL 1:13-24 Brothers and sisters:You heard of my former way of life in Judaism,how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measureand tried to destroy it, and progressed in Judaismbeyond many of my contemporaries among my race,since I was even more a zealot for […]
Daily Mass Reading – 3 October 2024
Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 458 Reading 1 JB 19:21-27 Job said: Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has struck me!Why do you hound me as though you were divine,and insatiably prey upon me? Oh, would that my words were written down!Would that they were […]
Daily Mass Reading – 1 October 2024
Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church Reading 1 Jb 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.Job spoke out and said: Perish the day on which I was born,the night when they said, “The child is a boy!” Why did I not perish at […]
Daily Mass Reading – 25 September 2024
Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Prv 30:5-9 Every word of God is tested;he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.Add nothing to his words,lest he reprove you, and you will be exposed as a deceiver. Two things I ask of you,deny them not to me before I […]
Sunday’s Mass Reading – 15 September 2024
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 131 Reading 1 Is 50:5-9a The Lord GOD opens my ear that I may hear;and I have not rebelled,have not turned back.I gave my back to those who beat me,my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;my face I did not shieldfrom buffets and spitting. The Lord GOD is […]