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By Hugh Owen, LifeSiteNews, Feb 20, 2025
The Novena to the Holy Face of Jesus, which will begin on Sunday, February 23, offers every Catholic the opportunity to ask Our Lord for a childlike faith to help bring spiritual and physical healing to the suffering souls in our families and communities.
(LifeSiteNews) — The first Marian apparition of modern times with a public message approved by the Church took place in La Salette, France, in 1846, and featured a stern warning from the Mother of God against two principal sins – blasphemy and the desecration of the Lord’s Day.
It is no coincidence that Our Lady’s tearful lament over the desecration of the Lord’s Day coincided with the growing acceptance of the “new geology” of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon, in France, James Hutton in Scotland, and Charles Lyell in England, all of whom sought to explain the geology of the Earth in terms of slow and gradual processes and denied the Roman Catechism’s teaching on six-day creation and the global extent of Noah’s Flood.
From apostolic times, the faithful had celebrated the Lord’s Day not only as the commemoration of Our Lord’s glorious Resurrection but also as the commemoration of the first day of creation when God had created the heavens and the earth. Indeed, the Gospel of John calls Sunday “the first day of the week” for this very reason (John 20:19).
Writing in the second century, St. Justin Martyr described the Sunday observance of the early Church: …
