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Dead Sea Scrolls – A Message for our Time
Fr. Mark Goring's latest YouTube describes two small fragments retrieved recently from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Listen to his podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOAnZTKrWY After hearing the two verses, I do think God is trying to get our attention. Here is the one verse that is very appropro to today's world: These are the things you are to [...]
God Bless Texas!
JUST IN - Gov. Abbott ends the statewide mask mandate in Texas and announces all businesses in the state can reopen. "With the medical advancements of vaccines and antibody therapeutic drugs, Texas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus,” said Governor Abbott. "We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy [...]
Who was St. Valentine?
Valentine became famous for marrying couples who were in love but couldn’t get legally married in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II, who outlawed weddings. One common story about St. Valentine is that in one point of his life, as the former Bishop of Terni, Narnia and Amelia, he was on house arrest [...]
The History of Christmas
This PragerU video on The Amazing History of Christmas was the spark to this week's study session. In this session we'll review a few of the prominent traditions celebrated around the world at this time and explore in depth the hidden mysteries of Christ's birthday from an astrological and geological perspective. How much do you [...]
The False Prophet
Our Catholic Study Session this week focuses on false prophets in general and The False Prophet from the book of Revelation. Let us start our session with the sign of the faith. This last week I ran across an article by Fr. Frank Unterhalt is a German diocesan priest. He recently wrote an article for [...]
Mark of the Sea Beast
Our Catholic Study Session this week focuses on the Mark of the Sea Beast. To help understand scripture I refer to the beast from the sea that starts chapter 13 as the Sea Beast. It's also discussed in the Blue Book as the Black Beast. As we continue in chapter 13 after the first beast, [...]
I saw a beast rising out of the sea
In my previous post "The Sea Beast and the Land Beast" I talked very briefly about the Sea Beast, the beast rising out of the sea. The description in Revelation contains so much more and it's time to unpack the mysteries of the heads, horns, diadems, and blasphemous names written on the heads. And I [...]
Book of Revelation – 7 Churches
Today's reading is from the book of Revelation chapter 4 and discusses the heavenly worship in the throne room of heaven. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111820.cfm This heavenly discourse comes with a description that clearly identifies 24 other thrones and the "elders" that sit on those thrones and bow in worship "before the one who sits on the throne." [...]
The Miracle of the Son
Today is the 101st anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. The miracle took place on the 13th day of October, 1917. The 13th Day Remembering what happened in Fatima in 1917 is so important today. Why? Because of the message of Fatima. What is the message of Fatima? The first message I [...]