Entries for 2021

By: Bishop Joseph E. Strickland Catholic East Texas As you know, the last Sunday of the liturgical year is the Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe. This beautiful feast reminds us that Jesus Christ is King not just for one liturgical celebration each year but every day of our lives. We ...

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ewtn So great are the advantages we reap from the incarnation of the Son of God that to contemplate it, and to thank and praise him for the same, ought to be the primary object of all our devotions and the employment of our whole lives. In the feast of the Conception of the Immaculate Virgin Moth...

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By: Elizabeth Slaten Nov. 19, 2021 Catholic East Texas   “Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.” St. John Bosco As we get ready to enter into a new liturgical year with the start of Advent, many Christians will strive to take up...

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Ewtn.com The great veneration with which this saint has been honoured, both in the Greek and Latin churches for many ages, and the great number of altars and churches which have been everywhere erected in his memory, are proofs of his extraordinary sanctity and of the glory which he enjoys with G...

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COMMENTARY: Gratitude is a virtue required as part of justice whereby we remember and appreciate the service done for us and the willingness to show kindness in return. Msgr. Stuart Swetland Commentaries November 11, 2021 Source “Thank you for your service.”  As a veteran,...

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40 Days for Life in Texas ends its prayer vigil and the Supreme Court Declines to Block the Texas Heartbeat Act By: Susan Fox Nov 9, 2021 Source “Our society is out of sync with reality. It’s surreal sitting here with Planned Parenthood nestled among all the other medical bu...

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Source Religious parents never fail by devout prayer to consecrate their children to the divine service and love, both before and after their birth. Some amongst the Jews, not content with this general consecration of their children, offered them to God in their infancy, by the hands of the pries...

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Source The name of St. Cecilia has always been most illustrious in the church, and ever since the primitive ages is mentioned with distinction in the canon of the Mass, and in the sacramentaries and calendars of the church. Her spouse Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus, an officer, who were her com...

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By: Robert L. Judge Nov 11, 2021 Source We often think of faith as believing in something we have not seen. Does this mean faith blind? Is faith believing in something unseen without any evidence to demonstrate its reasonability? Should we only believe in things that can be demonstrated wi...

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Source St Andrew was a native of Bethsaida, a town in Galilee, upon the banks of the lake of Genesareth. He was the son of Jonas, or John, a fisherman of that town, and brother to Simon Peter, but whether elder or younger the Holy Scriptures have not acquainted us. They had afterwards a house at ...

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