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January 3, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Behold the Lamb of God!

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 1:29-34 - 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, `After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.' 31 I myself did not know him; but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel." 32 And John bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him. ....

January 3, 2025

Saint of the Day for January 3: Most Holy Name of Jesus

By Franciscan Media - The Story of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - Although Saint Paul might claim credit for promoting devotion to the Holy Name because Paul wrote in Philippians that God the Father gave Christ Jesus “that name that is above every name” (see 2:9), this devotion became popular because of 12th-century Cistercian monks and nuns but especially through the preaching of Saint Bernardine of Siena, a 15th-century Franciscan.

January 3, 2025

Our Baptismal Priesthood and Supernatural Conversions, by Bill Quinn

By Bill Quinn, Catholic Exchange - As I adore Jesus Christ as a transubstantiated Eucharist while on a forty-two hour silent retreat, the Holy Spirit has instructed me to write this: I stood dumfounded just two weeks earlier as I witnessed the baptism of a non-Christian friend of thirty years. Not in a million years would I have forecasted that this friend would ever want to be baptized, as we behaved like rich prodigals as young men. Perhaps another observer would have never forecasted that I would become a daily communicant. ...

January 3, 2025

CatholicVote: Reports: Biden DOJ Poured Millions Into ‘Woke’ School Programs

CV News Feed - According to the results of a recent investigation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the outgoing Biden administration poured over $100 million into pushing far-left causes such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in schools across much of the country... The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported on Thursday that over the four years President Joe Biden has been in office, his DOJ “awarded over $100,113,942” to the various “woke” initiatives “through 102 grants, throughout 36 states, impacting 946 school districts and upwards of 3 million K-12 students.”