Lord’s Day Reflection: The blessings of family life

As the Church marks the Feast of the Holy Family, Fr Luke Gregory reflects on how divine guidance…
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July 2025: Mass Readings and Resources

July 2025 is Year C in the Sunday liturgical cycle and Year 1 in the weekday cycle. See Mass readings resources for specific Sundays and feast days in for July 2025 here.

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The years in which #Easter is on March 31:

1979
1991
2002
2013
2024
2035
2046
2057
2068

(Western Catholic/Protestant liturgical calendar.)

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In the Christian #LiturgicalYear, we're now got a a woman giving birth. Everyone, and all of our ancestors, made it through some such event.

#JackSpong in the video, from a naturalist (non-supernatural), historical (there was a Jesus) view, looks at how this woman was presented in the New Testament writings.

One of Spong's ideas is that some stories of Jesus were developed later to make a liturgical year.

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John Shelby Spong - The Mother of Jesus: A Symbol of Judaism

John Shelby Spong explains how the 4th Gospel creates a symbol from the presence of Christ's mother. This is the fourth lecture of a five lecture series. Thi...

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#Shevat (also #Shvat) /ʃəˈvat (Hebrew & English)/ = 5th month of the Jewish #CivilYear, and 11th month of the #liturgicalYear. The word is borrowed from an Akkadian word meaning "strike," probably in reference to seasonal heavy rain in that region at that time of year (January-February in the #GregorianCalendar)

Tu B' Shvat = "15 in Shvat" [15th of Shvat], the New Year of the Trees. Also called Rosh Hashanah La'ilanot (= "head-of the-year for-trees", i.e. New Year For Trees) ...

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Yom Saint #Valentine Ha'Kadosh = day [of] Saint Valentine the-holy [(St.) Valentine's Day]

#Av /av/ = the 11th #month of the #civilYear and 5th month of the #liturgicalYear in the #HebrewCalendar. Corresponds to July/August in the #GregorianCalendar. Borrowed from the Akkadian word “abum” meaning “fire month.”

#tu = 15 (more in next toot)

b' (also be) /bə/ (Hebrew) = prepositional noun prefix roughly equivalent to "in", "at", and "with"

B'Av (bə'ʔav) = in [month of] Av [i.e. "of Av"]

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