We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

[Saying] “yes” might be very unwise. It might not be the best way to repay our debt of love. Saying “yes” to one task might keep us from another that is more important. It might mean that we will do something that someone else could have done better. It might mean that we will entrench the sin patterns of other people. It might mean that we interpret the church egocentrically rather than as a body, thinking, “If I don’t do it, nobody will.”
Edward Welch

Form the feeling of our own ignorance, vanity, poverty, infirmity, and – what is more – depravity and corruption, we recognize that the true light of wisdom, sound virtue, full abundance of every good, and purity of righteousness rest in the Lord alone. To this extent we are prompted by our own ills to contemplate the good things of God; and we cannot seriously aspire to Him before we begin to become displeased with ourselves… Accordingly, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, leads us by the hand to find Him.
John Calvin

    • Feasts And Festivals

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    Feasts And Festivals

    FEASTS AND FESTIVALS

    BASIC R.C. BELIEF

    Certain days are set aside each year by the Roman Catholic Church in order to impress upon people’s minds great truths of religion. The more important feasts are Holydays of Obligation (on which a Roman Catholic must go to Mass), of which there are six: Christmas, Circumcision (Jan. 1), Ascension Day, Assumption (Aug. 15), All Saints Day (Nov. 1) and Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) There are others are observed by the universal Church but not in the U.S.: Epiphany, Corpus Christi, St. Joseph and Sts. Peter and Paul.

    Other feasts include Easter, Pentecost, Purification of our Blessed Lady, Annunciation, Trinity Sunday, Sacred Heart, All Souls Day, Nativity of St. John the Baptist.

    There are many feasts of Mary; in the 12th century only four were universally observed. At present, the number has increased to about 20.

    There is a very involved system of attaching comparative liturgical rank to each feast. In ascending order of importance, they are: simple, semidouble, greater double, double of the second class, double of the first class.

    Some great feasts have octaves, which extend the solemnity for 8 days. In 1928, Pius XI raised the feast of the Sacred Heart to a first class feast with a third class octave.

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