10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb. 1, 2016)

Last updated on: February 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb. 1, 2016) 2016-02-01T14:01:01-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. 1.5 million people in Eucharistic adoration and procession.

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#JesusSaves pic.twitter.com/7NV0gPTFo0

— SOLT (@SOLT33) February 1, 2016

3. Cardinal Dolan: “We are the ones who know the dignity and beauty of the human person. But we also know the suffering there, we also know the dark side, the unredeemed side. And that’s where faith and religion, that’s where the Saviour comes in! And that’s what the Mass is all about.”

4. A post from Word on Fire on the importance of spiritual mentorship.

5. Everything happening now will only happen once in a jubilee of mercy. That lens seems to make everything both more challenging and urgent. Here’s Saint Hilary of Poitiers on the psalms from the Liturgy of the Hours today. Would that we would live this:

Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity! It is good and pleasant for brothers to dwell in unity, because when they do so their association creates the assembly of the Church. The term “brothers” describes the bond of affection arising from their singleness of purpose.

We read that when the apostles first preached, the chief instruction they gave lay in this saying: The hearts and minds of all believers were one. So it is fitting for the people of God to be brothers under one Father, to be united under one Spirit, to live in harmony under one roof, to be limbs of one body.

It is pleasant and good for brothers to dwell in unity. The prophet suggested a comparison for this good and pleasant activity when he said: It is like the ointment on the head which ran down over the beard of Aaron, down upon the collar of his garment. Aaron’s oil was made of the perfumes used to anoint a priest. It was God’s decision that his priest should have his consecration first, and that our Lord should be so anointed, but not visibly, by those who are joined with him. Aaron’s anointing did not belong to this world; it was not done with the horn used for kings, but with the oil of gladness. So afterward Aaron was called the anointed one as the Law prescribed.

When this oil is poured out upon men of unclean heart, it snuffs out their lives, but when it is received as an anointing of love, it exudes the sweet odor of harmony with God. As Paul says, we are the goodly fragrance of Christ. So just as it was pleasing to God when Aaron was anointed priest with this oil, so it is good and pleasant for brothers to dwell in unity.

Now the oil ran down from his head to his beard. A beard adorns a man of mature years. We must not be children before Christ except in the restricted scriptural sense of being children in wickedness but not in our way of thinking. Now Paul calls all who lack faith, children, because they are too weak to take solid food and still need milk. As he says: I fed you with milk rather than the solid food for which you were not yet ready; and you are still not ready.

This week’s image for Praying the Angelus with Art: https://t.co/6OQ5D0m0Yp

— Sister Anne (@nunblogger) February 1, 2016

7. Today’s Mass readings.
A homily from Fr. Roger Landry.
A report on the pope’s homily at Santa Marta this morning.

8. Pope Francis: We are called to bring the balm of God’s merciful love to the whole human family, binding up wounds, bringing hope where despair so often seems to have the upper hand.

You are the world's greatest wonder. https://t.co/CeHJRkmh3w pic.twitter.com/lZgh10QXKf

— TOB Institute (@TOBInstitute) February 1, 2016

10. An interactive guide to the San Damiano crucifix.

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