10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (January 19, 2016)

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"Hope in Christ knows that in the end all will be well because all is grace". Cardinal Francis George

— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) January 19, 2016

2. Today’s readings.

3. From the pope’s homily this morning: there is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.

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From today's In Conversation with God, published by Scepter Publishers. #holiness https://t.co/MaEVapcAzU pic.twitter.com/ng4yyWYTfW

— Diana von Glahn (@DianavonGlahn) January 19, 2016

5. A St. Thomas Aquinas novena that begins today.

By the way: If you’re looking for ideas for the year of faith, 23 people offer some here.

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#catholic #catholicchurch #christian #faith #jesus #church #prayer #god #religion #catholi… https://t.co/95mzPLmMxo pic.twitter.com/vUqPef1Osi

— Ascension Press (@AscensionPress) January 19, 2016

7. From a letter to the Corinthians by Saint Clement I, pope and martyr, found in the Office of Readings of the prayer of the Church today:

Let the man truly possessed by the love of Christ keep his commandments. Who can express the binding power of divine love? Who can find words for the splendor of its beauty? Beyond all description are the heights to which it lifts us. Love unites us to God; it cancels innumerable sins, has no limits to its endurance, bears everything patiently. Love is neither servile nor arrogant. It does not provoke schisms or form cliques, but always acts in harmony with others. By it all God’s chosen ones have been sanctified; without it, it is impossible to please him. Out of love the Lord took us to himself; because he loved us and it was God’s will, our Lord Jesus Christ gave his life’s blood for us—he gave his body for our body, his soul for our soul.

See then, beloved, what a great and wonderful thing love is, and how inexpressible its perfection. Who are worthy to possess it unless God makes them so? To him therefore we must turn, begging of his mercy that there may be found in us a love free from human partiality and beyond reproach. Every generation from Adam’s time to ours has passed away; but those who by God’s grace were made perfect in love have a dwelling now among the saints, and when at last the kingdom of Christ appears, they will be revealed. Take shelter in your rooms for a little while, says Scripture, until my wrath subsides. Then I will remember the good days, and will raise you from your graves.

Happy are we, beloved, if love enables us to live in harmony and in the observance of God’s commandments, for then it will also gain for us the remission of our sins. Scripture pronounces happy those whose transgressions are pardoned, whose sins are forgiven. Happy the man, it says, to whom the Lord imputes no fault, on whose lips there is no guile. This is the blessing given those whom God has chosen through Jesus Christ our Lord. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

8. Pray for life.

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A New York saint pops up in Magnificat’s year of mercy companion today:

Enter the Magnificat world here.

10. Fr. Roger Landry on what the Lord sees in the heart.

PLUS: Something I wrote about the new book length interview — The Name of God Is Mercy — with the pope for Catholic Pulse, here.

And about that and David Bowie for Aleteia here.