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Today, we give thanks to God for our retired priests who have dedicated their lives to serving Christ and His Church. I am especially grateful to this yearās honorees, Fr. Ulysses DāAquila and Fr. Larry Goode, for their many years of faithful priestly service.
May God bless our retired priests for the countless ways they have cared for His people.
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āIf itās not explicitly written in the Bible, you shouldnāt believe it.ā
But where does the Bible explicitly say that?
In fact, Paul commands Christians to hold fast to apostolic traditions received BOTH orally and in writing.
2 Thessalonians 2:15:
āStand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.ā
John 21:25 even acknowledges that Jesus did many things that were never recorded in Scripture.
The biblical authors never teach that every doctrine must be explicitly spelled out in Scripture to be believed.
The early Christians received the faith through the teaching of the Apostles, both written and spoken.
The question isnāt whether a teaching appears as an exact sentence in the Bible. The question is whether it belongs to the deposit of faith Christ entrusted to His Church.
You cannot use Scripture to establish a rule that Scripture itself never establishes.
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Catholics are required to attend Mass every Sunday and on specific holy days of obligation. In 2026, one of those days also falls on a Sunday, and itŹ¼s happening this weekend. On Nov. 1, the solemnity of All Saints will replace the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time.
On Saturday, Oct. 31, and on Sunday, Nov. 1, Evening Prayer 1 of the Liturgy of the Hours is for All Saints and the vigil Mass on Saturday will observe the Mass of All Saints.
Solemnities rank above feasts and memorials and are the highest liturgical celebrations in the Catholic Church. They honor significant mysteries of the Christian faith, including events in the lives of Jesus and Mary, as well as key saints.
The solemnity of All Saints celebrates all Christian saints ā those formally canonized by the Church and those who are not but have attained heaven. It is typically a holy day of obligation.
The observance of the solemnity begins with evening prayer (first vespers) the evening before on Oct. 31 ā known as All Hallowsā Eve or Halloween ā and is followed on Nov. 2 by All Souls' Day, a day in which the entire Church prays for all of the dead.
Sometimes a solemnity that falls on a Sunday will be moved to a Monday.
For example, in 2024, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8 fell on a Sunday in Advent so the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) transferred the solemnity to the Monday.
The Vatican has clarified that Catholics in the United States must still attend Mass on holy days of obligation even when they are transferred to Mondays or Saturdays, correcting a long-standing practice in the U.S. Church.
More: ewtnnews.com/world/us/all-saā¦
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You are a very beautiful woman. May you always be blessed, loved and happy as you deserve. And may you find the peace that surpasses all understanding.
Iāve gained almost 26K followers overnight on X. The outpouring of love and support has been overwhelming in the best way possible š«¶ WOW.
I want to show the world how insidious gender ideology is, save kids from this madness, and educate people about the permanent consequences of medical transition.
I am whatās known as a detransitioner. I spent 7 years identifying as a man and medically transitioning. In June 2025, I announced that I would be detransitioning back to my actual female sex.
My life has never been the same since walking away from trans. Look at how profoundly unhappy I look as a ātrans man.ā Thatās not me. Thatās me hiding from myself.
Embracing womanhood and biological reality has cost me everything. Iād do it all over again. Thereās nothing worth more than truth, reality, and embracing who God made you š
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We read all of 1 Peter in our menās group last night.
āNow who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is right? But even if you do suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lordā¦For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.ā
1 Peter 3:13-15, 17
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Catholic entrepreneur Tim Busch has opened a new Catholic chapel at one of his hotels in Arizona. His hotel chain now has four chapels, where Catholic priests can enjoy complimentary stays in exchange for celebrating daily Mass for hotel guests and staff.
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During the first eight days of November, the Church offers the faithful a special opportunity to obtain plenary indulgences for the souls in Purgatory.
Here is how you can participate:
1. Perform one of the following indulgenced acts:
ā¢ November 1ā8: Devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even silently, for the deceased.
ā¢ November 2 (All Soulsā Day): Visit a church or oratory and recite the Our Father and the Apostlesā Creed.
2. Fulfill the usual conditions:
š Receive Sacramental Confession.
š Receive Holy Communion.
š Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (an Our Father and a Hail Mary are recommended).
š Have the intention of gaining the indulgence.
š Be completely detached from all sin, including venial sin.
A few important things to remember:
ā¢ One sacramental Confession can suffice for several plenary indulgences.
ā¢ Holy Communion and prayer for the Pope's intentions must be repeated for each plenary indulgence.
ā¢ Confession, Communion, and prayer may be completed several days before or after the indulgenced act. However, Communion and prayer for the Pope's intentions should take place on the same day as the prescribed act.
ā¢ If all the conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence will be partial rather than plenary.
What is a plenary indulgence?
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1471), an indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. A plenary indulgence removes all of this temporal punishment, while a partial indulgence removes part of it.
Indulgences can be applied to the living or to the faithful departed.
ā¤ļø This November, let us remember the Holy Souls in Purgatory and offer our prayers and sacrifices for them. Praying for the dead is a beautiful spiritual work of mercy.
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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Here's the Go Fund Me for the guy getting harassed by those punk teenagers
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Friends, most āspiritual but not religiousā people, though they may disdain the traditional churches, remain hungry for meaning, purpose, community, and ritualāfour values classically offered by religion.
They have found these in some odd places, and it would be easy enough to write off those frankly weird forms of religiosity. But this would be seeing the glass as half empty.
Rather, we should rejoice that the religious instinct remains vibrantly alive in themāand go out to meet it!
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St. Francis de Sales notes that the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph were obedient even to a pagan Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, who ordered a census in which they participated (Luke 2:1ā5). A fortiori, if even the Holy Family obediently subjected itself to the authority of a pagan emperor, all the more so should Catholic priests obey their lawful superior, the bishop, in all things except sin. substack.com/@patrickmadrid/ā¦
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āā¦pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear.
We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.ā
(St. Teresa of Jesus. The Book of Her Life. Chap. 31.10)
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Friends, a teacher of the law asks Jesus, āTeacher, which commandment of the law is the greatest?ā This was an old move in rabbinic circles: Can you sum up the richness and complexity of the law in one statement?
When Jesus answers, itās not just one rabbi among many answering this central question. Itās the Lord. Itās the Word made flesh telling us whatās at the very heart of the matter.
āYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind .Ā .Ā . and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.ā The whole law and the prophets depend upon these two commandments (Matt 22:36ā40).
The Word made flesh is telling us what is absolutely basic.
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Our grandmothers spent their lives keeping the Catholic faith alive. But what happens to that faith when theyāre no longer here?
This is my grandmother, Mary Catherine Collins, photographed many years ago while working for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
She was born in 1929, attended West Catholic High School, and lived to be 95 years old before passing away in 2024.
I love this photograph of her. Sheās young, beautifully dressed, sitting at her desk with a lifetime of memories still ahead of her.
With All Soulsā Day approaching on November 2, Iāve been thinking about her and the generations of Catholic women who came before us.
The grandmothers who went to Mass every Sunday, kept their rosaries close, prayed for their families, and passed down a faith that had already survived centuries before they were born.
There was a time when they were the young women sitting in the pews, raising families, and building the traditions we remember from childhood.
Now so many of them are gone.
As Iāve grown deeper in my Catholic faith, attending Mass more often, studying Scripture, and learning about the Churchās history, Iāve come to appreciate that inheritance in a way I never did when I was younger.
I wish I could sit with my grandmother and tell her everything Iāve been learning. I would love to hear her stories about working for the Archdiocese and ask her questions I never thought to ask while she was here.
Iād like to think she would be proud.
This coming All Soulsā Day, Iāll be praying for the repose of her soul, just as generations of Catholics have prayed for their loved ones.
And I hope those of you who have lost your grandmothers will remember them in your prayers, too.
Because the older I get, the more I realize that the Catholic traditions we inherited are now ours to preserve.
Our grandmothers wonāt always be here to fill those church pews, light those candles, or remind us to say our prayers.
Someone has to take their place.
They carried the faith so that we could inherit it. Now itās our turn to make sure it reaches the next generation.
And I canāt help thinking how proud our grandmothers would be to see us doing exactly that.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. š
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When Father Witold Kaczmarzyk arrived at Christ on the Mountain Parish in Lakewood, Colorado, earlier this year, he inherited a parish unknown by many in the Denver Archdiocese and arrived with a mission from his archbishop: to breathe new life into the community.
Kaczmarzykās solution involved an electric scooter, a little comedy, and a willingness to step outside his comfort zone by using social media ā all in the hope of helping more people encounter Jesus Christ.
Born and raised in Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland, Kaczmarzyk lived there with his parents and younger brother until he was 25, after which he moved to the United States to attend seminary.
He remembers first thinking about becoming a priest at the age of 6. However, as he grew up, he realized that being a priest meant sacrificing having a family. After high school, he went to college in Warsaw and planned to become a nuclear physicist.
āI went to like a Polish MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] in Warsaw. And thatŹ¼s actually what I called my Damascus ā like Paul riding to Damascus, I was riding on a train to Warsaw to pursue my dreams and thatŹ¼s when God caught me,ā he told EWTN News.
When he arrived at the university, Kaczmarzyk met several people who began to encourage him to pray, read the Bible, and get more involved in his faith.
āSlowly this desire since childhood came back to the surface level,ā he said. āAnd I kind of felt weird because my love for physics, for science, was going down, and then my love for God was increasing day by day.ā
After six months, Kaczmarzyk dropped out of college and entered the seminary. Originally, he felt called to become a missionary priest, with the desire āto be like the apostles.ā
āI didnāt want to be just the boring priest of a parish in Poland. ThatŹ¼s not me. I wanted to go into Africa, Asia, other cultures, languages, [and] dangers,ā he said. āI told my parents I want to become a missionaryā¦ Well, my parents thought I was crazy. Even my dad was like, āYou might get killed,ā and IŹ¼m like, āThatŹ¼s even better. I will be a martyr, thatās an express path to heaven, sign me up.āā
Kaczmarzykās new tenure at Christ on the Mountain Parish is his first as a pastor. He had previously been a parochial vicar at several other parishes in the archdiocese. When he received the assignment from Archbishop Samuel Aquila, former archbishop of Denver, he was told to help get people back into the Church and on fire for Christ.
Read more: ewtnnews.com/world/us/from-eā¦
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With all this talk about possible catastrophe and the need for the American people to stock up on food, water, and other necessities, I think itās a prudent time to remind the faithful Catholics out there that the number one tactic the devil uses to get you to lose sight of your trust in God is creating fear in you.
This isnāt to say that nothing bad might happen or that, in the event of something bad happening, there couldnāt be much suffering on the horizon.
Itās simply a call to keep your focus on the only one who can get you through anything, and thatās Jesus Christ.
#ChristIsKing
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As is often the case in breaking news, the truth slowly comes out.
Today we learn directly from the organizers of the TLM pilgrimage that when they could not get Saint Peterās basilicaā¦ āpermission was sought and gained for a Prelatial (Pontifical) Low Mass in St Mary Major.ā
So unlike what so many bloggers, podcasters, journalists, and rage baiters claimed, this was NOT a last-minute change but something that was known since August.
Respect to those who have already corrected what they previously posted and shame on those who have not.
Iāll also note, since I shared early on that events on their official website were still incorrect a day before the pilgrimage began (and many of these same people, including a priest involved said I was lying about that when it was updated the following day) the organizers also said thisā¦ āThe SP website was based on what happened last year. The problem was that as things were confirmed, very late in the day, they were contirmed as being different trom what they expected, and the website was not updated. So I now understand.ā
