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By Louis Knuffke, LifeSite News - Bishop Emeritus Joseph Strickland led more than 200 faithful in a procession through the streets of Tyler with a relic of St. Tarcisius, the Roman boy-martyr who died for the Eucharist... The procession took place on Sunday, June 9, and was organized in conjunction with the National Eucharistic Revival in which the Blessed Sacrament is being carried in solemn procession through various cities throughout the United States, leading up to the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis later this summer. Since the southern route of the Eucharistic Revival did not pass through Tyler, the faithful organized a local procession.

By Grayson Quay, First Things - According to a Premier Christianity article published in 2018, the “verse of the day” feature common on Bible apps could actually “be skewing your view of God.” The apps populate “their verse of the day lists with those verses most tweeted or shared by the user community.” Because people are more likely to share feel-good verses than more meaty or difficult passages, this algorithmic approach produces a “tendency towards therapeutic texts,” creating “a therapeutic filter bubble.”