PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES HIS CHOICE FOR THE VACANCY ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT INTRODUCING FEDERAL JUDGE NEIL GORSUCH OF COLORADO AGE 49.................

JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HEROES IN THE "CLOUD OF WITNESSES" ARE JOINED BY MUSLIM HEROES IN ISLAMIC HISTORY IN GOD's KINGDOM.................

ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES A CAREER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CIVILIAN SERVANT REFUSES TO DEFEND THE TRUMP MUSLIM BAN AND IS FIRED BY THE PRESIDENT AND IS REPLACED BY HIS IMMEDIATELY SWORN IN CHOICE DANA J. BOENTE IN WHAT IS BEING CALLED THE 'MONDAY NIGHT MASSACRE' AKIN TO WATERGATE.................

FUNERAL RITES FOR 59 YEAR NATIVE SACRAMENTO DIOCESAN PRIEST CATHOLIC EDUCATOR AND PASTOR REVEREND MONSIGNOR JAMES FRANCIS CHURCH Jr. January 26, 1932 - January 22, 2017.................

ONLY SEVEN OUT OF FORTY SIX MUSLIM NATIONS TARGETED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MUSLIM BAN WHILE OTHER SUCH COUNTRIES AMONG THEM LIKE SAUDI ARABIA EGYPT AND PAKISTAN WHERE THE TRUMP CORPORATION HAS BUSINESS INTERESTS ARE NOT BANNED.................

THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE WISDOM OF THE BEATITUDES ARE COUNTER CULTURAL TO WORLDLY WAYS AS THEY BELONG TO THE KINGDOM JESUS BRINGS..................

PRESIDENT TRUMP's PARTIAL MUSLIM BAN EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED YESTERDAY STAYED IN PART BY A FEDERAL JUDGE TONIGHT FOLLOWING DAY LONG DETENTIONS AND PROTESTS AT AIRPORTS FROM COAST TO COAST.................

DEVELOPING AN ONGOING UNDERSTANDING OF FAITH IN GOD AS A VITAL SOURCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND ENDURANCE AS COMPANIONS OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY MEETS PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE THIS MORNING...PRESIDENT OF MEXICO DeNIETO CANCELS HIS MEETING WITH POTUS 45 NEXT WEEK OVER PAYING FOR THE PROPOSED TRUMP BORDER WALL.................

THE GOOD NEWS OF TWO PARABLES OF THE HARVEST IN CULTIVATING THE SPIRITUAL FRUITS OF GOD's EVERLASTING KINGDOM.................

IN THIS 500th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION EUCHARISTIC RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC AND LUTHERAN CHURCHES US NEARING.................

STS. TIMOTHY AND TITUS - COMPANIONS OF ST.PAUL...FIRST CENTURY BISHOPS WHO MINISTERED IN OUTREACH TO JEWS AND GENTILES.................

REVEREND MONSIGNOR JAMES CHURCH SACRAMENTO BORN NATIVE VOCATION PRIEST ORDAINED IN 1958 REST IN PEACE...WAS PASTOR OF 4 PARISHES ST. PETER, ST. PHILOMENE, ST, CHARLES, ST. ROSE AND WAS ALSO DIOCESAN SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.................

ON THIS FEAST OF THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL - FROM PERSECUTOR TO PROPONENT OF JESUS THE CHRIST OF SALVATION ALL WHO ANSWER ALMIGHTY GOD's PERVASIVE CALL POSSESS THE POWER TO RADICALLY CHANGE.................

OCTAVE OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY DAY 7 - DIVINELY COMPELLED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE IS "THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION" (2 COR.5:18-19).................

MARK's GOSPEL EVANGELIZES FOCUSING ON THE CHURCH AS A FAMILY IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH JESUS THAT CREATES FOR BELIEVERS A NEW RELATIONHIP WITH GOD.................

ST. FRANCIS de SALES BISHOP and DOCTOR of the CHURCH - A 16th CENTURY GIANT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRITUALITY DURING THE 16th CENTURY CATHOLIC-CHRISTIAN REFORMATION.................

UPDATE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE - ROCKY START TO THE INAUGURAL WEEKEND AS PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER DISEMBLES AND KELLY ANNE CONWAY CIRCUMVENTS THE TRUTH WITH "ALTERNATIVE FACTS".................

ED ROBERTS DAY 2017 - REMEMBERING AND CHANNELING THE DISABILITY RIGHTS ICON WHOSE LIFE CONTRIBUTED MIGHTILY TO THE INCLUSION AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY.................

AS HUMANS...DISCIPLES...CHRISTIANS...BELIEVERS...WE ARE ENABLED TO BEAR GOOD AND LASTING FRUIT.................

DAY 5 IN THE OCTAVE OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY : BORN IN THE SPIRIT FILLED WITH JOY AND RENEWED IN CHRIST - 'EVERYTHING HAS BECOME NEW' (2 Cor. 5:14).................

THE THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - OPENING WIDE THE NEW HORIZONS OF ECUMENISM IN BUILDING GOD's KINGDOM OF LOVE.................

AS CREATURES OF THE BENEVOLENT UNIVERSAL GOD WE ARE OUR OUR BEST SELVES WHEN WE ARE UNSELFISH.................

TODAY's INAUGURAL SATURDAY WOMEN's MARCH IN WASHINGTON TURNOUT GUESTIMATED TO BE 500,000 PEOPLE...SOLIDARITY MARCHES AROUND THE COUNTRY IN THEHUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS AND WORLDWIDE TOTALING A REPORTED 3 MILLION PERSONS.................

UPDATE INAUGURATION 2017 - SECOND DAY STARTS WITH THE 58th NATIONAL INAUGURAL PRAYER SERVICE ATTENDED BY THE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT AND THEIR FAMILIES AT THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN WASHINGTON NORTHWEST.................

ST. AGNES VIRGIN AND MARTYR OF THE 3rd/4th CHRISTIAN CENTURIES RESILIENTLY AFFIRMED CHRIST IN A BRIEF 13 YEAR LIFE.................

NEWLY INAUGURATED POTUS 45 DONALD JOHN TRUMP GIVES MORE OF A CAMPAIGN SPEECH THAN INAUGURAL ADDRESS THAT DOUBLES DOWN DISAPPOINTEDLY RATHER THAN REACHING OUT EXPANSIVELY IN NEO ISOLATIONIST NATIONALISM.................

DAY 3 OF THE ECUMENICAL WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY - UNITED IN PRAYER AND ACTION WE DO NOT VIEW OTHERS JUST FROM A HUMAN POINT OF VIEW (2 Cor. 5:16).................

UPDATE INAUGURATION 2017 : HIGH NOON ON THE POTOMAC AND THE CEREMONIES OF THE 58th QUADRENNIAL FESTIVITIES IN SUCCESSION TO THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.................

AN ESTIMATED 800,000 PERSONS EXPECTED ON THE NATIONAL MALL SURROUNDING THE U.S. CAPITOL TODAY FOR THE ORDERLY TRANSFER OF POWER SWEARING IN AND INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF POTUS 45 TRUMP 3 HOURS FROM NOW.................

THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND INCOMING FIRST LADY WITH THEIR FAMILY DEPART BLAIR HOUSE FOR THE ONE BLOCK DRIVE TO THE 'CHURCH OF THE PRESIDENTS ST, JOHN's EPISCOPAL - FOR INAUGURAL DAY WORSHIP SERVICE.................'

CURRENT UNITY HEARTED CHRISTIANS LIKE THE TWELVE APOSTLES ARE CALLED AND CHOSEN TO BE DEPENDABLE CO-WORKERS IN BUILDING GOD's KINGDOM..................

UPDATE INAUGURATION 2017 : THE ASCENDENCY OF DONALD JOHN TRUMP AS THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES @ 12 NOON IN WASSHINGTON D.C. .................

INAUGURAL EVE AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON D.C. WITH THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND THE TRUMP FAMILY LIKE THE OBAMAS DID EIGHT YEARS AGO TONIGHT.................

228 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY AND THE TRIUMVIRATE OF NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN ONE PERSON AT A TIME WHO IS - CHIEF EXECUTIVE / COMMANDER IN CHIEF / HEAD OF STATE.................

CONTINUING PROGRESS IN CHRISTIAN UNITY REQUIRES A MUTUALLY "WILLING SPIRIT" TO SHARE AND SPREAD GOSPEL VALUES.................

UPDATE INAUGURATION 2017 : 36 HOURS TO THE SWEARING IN OF POTUS 45 THE TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM IS SAYING IT WILL BE THE MOST "LAVISH" INAUGURAL IN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY.................

SACRAMENTO OPENS DAY 1 OF THIS WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY TODAY WITH A THREE-FOLD OBSERVANCE - 1 PM AN ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE @ WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ; 5 PM AN INTERDEMOMINATION DINNER @ THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ; 7 PM AN INTERFAITH WORSHIP SERVICE AT ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH

CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN RECONCILIATION OBLIGES US TO BE FORGIVING AND FORGIVEN PEOPLE OF GOD.................

The 2017 WEEK Of PRAYER For CHRISTIAN UNITY : "RECONCILIATION - The LOVE Of CHRIST COMPELS US" (2 Corinthians 5:14-20).................

THREE DAYS BEFORE THE INAUGURATION OF POTUS 45 PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP PERSISTS IN TWITTER BOMBING CRITICISM OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS NATO AND GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL.................

FORTITUDE AND FERVENCY BELIEVING AND PRACTICING DISCIPLESHIP IN CHRIST JESUS AMIDST ADVERSITY AND OPPOSITION.................

THE NEW TESTAMENT's LETTER TO THE HEBREWS PRESENTS JESUS CHRIST AS THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST OF CREATION.................

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY - THE CIVIL EQUAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLES HE ADVOCATED AND SACRIFICED FOR ARE A LIVING MEMORIAL OF ACTION AND SERVICE OF ANNUAL OBSERVANCE.................

"HERE I AM LORD" - THE RESPONSE OF CATHOLIC-CHRISTIAN DISSCIPLES TO DEVELOPING A CLOSER DEEPER DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DIVINE.................

THE GALLUP POLL FINDS PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP PRE-INAUGURAL APPROVAL RATING AT A HISTORIC LOW 44% / with 51% DISAPPROVAL.................

THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME : WHO IS THE SERVANT OF THE LORD GOD SPOKEN OF IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES ?.................

FROM THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN HISTORY GOOD PARENTS HAVE REFLECTED AND IMPARTED JOY HOPE AND LOVE TO THEIR FAMILIES.................

BEING FAMILY WE ARE WELCOME TO GOD's TABLE OF PLENTY.................

GOD THE CREATOR THE REDEEMER AND THE SANCTIFIER OF HUMANKIND CALLS FAMILIES TO HOLINESS EVERYDAY.................

THE U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR REX TILLERMAN EXXON MOBIL OIL CEO THE TRUMP NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE A TENSE EXCHAGE OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT HIS WORLDVIEW ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.................

PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP ANNOUNCES A STRUCTURED SEPARATION FROM HIS TRUMP ORGANIZATION BOLDLY PROCLAIMING HE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS WHILE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BUT WILL HE AVOID CONSTITUTIONAL EMOLUMENTS IN NOT SETTING UP A BLIND TRUST ?.................

HOW MORAL ETHICAL AND HONEST A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL AMERICA AND THE WORLD GET BASED ON HIS PERSONAL AND BUSINESS PRACTICES AND INHERENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ?.................

TRUMP CABINET NOMINEES CONFIRMATION HEARINGS BEGIN TODAY WITH ALABAMA U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL DESIGNATE AND RETIRED GENERAL JOHN KELLEY AS HOMELAND SECURITY DESIGNATE.................

MAKING THE JOURNEY OF LIFE AND FAITH INTO ORDINARY TIME 2017.................

OUR CHRISTMAS INCARNATION CELEBRATION CONCLUDES WITH THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD FEAST DAY OUR PORTAL TO INITIATION IN CHRIST JESUS OUR REDEEMER.................

THE CHRISTMAS INCARNATION OF JESUS THE CHRIST AND THE EPIPHANY OF THE MESSIAH OF GOD's PEOPLE.................

THE 2 WEEKS OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON HAVE EMPOWERED US TO MORE WIDELY EMBRACE THE EVERYDAY OPPORTUNITY OF GETTING THROUGH THE NARROW GATE................

AS CHRISTMAS DAYS CONTINUE IN THE NEW YEAR 2017 THE JOY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE CHRIST CHILD CRESCENDOS WITH THE EPIPHANY.................

THE 12th DAY OF THE SEASON IN CHRISTMAS JOY - ANSWERING THE CALL TO HOLINESS AS MUCH MORE THAN A GIFT LIMITED TO JUST ANNUAL HOLIDAYS.................

CHRISTMAS DAY 11 - MOTHER ELIZABETH ANN SETON AMERICAN SAINT TEACHER RELIGIOUS FOUNDRESS.................

THE 10th DAY OF THE SEASON OF CHRISTMAS JOY - SOLITUDE IS A SPIRITUAL GIFT THAT TRANSCENDS AND TRANSFORMS HUMAN LONELINESS.................

SPENDING THE OPENING DAYS OF 2017 ON CHRISTMAS DAYS IN RENO NEVADA................

9th DAY IN THE SEASON OF CHRISTMAS JOY ILLUMINATED BY THE CHARITABLE MINISTRY OF SAINTS BASIL AND GREGORY, BISHOPS.................

PRAYING THAT THE NEW YEAR BRINGS YOU 17 BLESSINGS OF LOVE JOY AND PEACE.................

THE 8TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS - NEW YEAR's DAY 2017 : CELEBRATING MARY MOTHER OF GOD AND WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE................