RETIRED GENERAL AND RESIGNED TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN OFFERS TO TESTIFY IN THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN ELECTION TAMPERING IF HE IS GRANTED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION.................

FRIDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT : JESUS DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE WITH HIS DISCIPLES FOR THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM AS HIS HARROWING SACRIFICE APPROACHES DENOTES OUR SPIRITUAL NEED TO EMBRACE THE SACRIFICES DUE TO SIN FACING OURSELVES.................

ADMONISHING THE SELF RIGHTEOUS JESUS INFORMS THEM KNOWING BUT MISUNDERSTANDING THE SACRED SCRIPTURES WILL NOT SAVE THEM - ONLY MUTUALLY LOVING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DIVINE AND OTHER HUMANS DOES.................

THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT : JESUS PROCLAIMS THESACRED TRUTH BY ADDRESSING DISREGARD FOR HIM BY REMINDING US OF WHAT THE PROPHETS SPOKE.................

THE TWO WAY MIRROR OF SEEING OUR LIVES THROUGH THE LENS OF CONVERSION AND INTROSPECTION.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE FOUURTH WEEK OF LENT :JESUS PROCLAIMS THE SOURCE OF HIS HEALING AND REDEEMING MINISTRY IS THE ETERNAL HEAVENLY FATHER.................

DEVELOPING A KNOWLEDGEABLE SOUL THAT IS RECONCILED WITH THE DIVINE INVOLVES BEING STEEPED IN SPIRITUALITY.................

SENATE DEMOCRATS DELAY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE VOTING SUPREME COURT NOMINEE JUDGE NEIL GORSUCH's OUT OF THE COMMITTEE UNTIL NEXT WEEK.................

TUESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT : THE WATER STIRRED UP BY JESUS IN THE POOL OF BETHESDA BRING HIS HEALING POWER.................

COMPREHENSIVE INCLUSION OF ALL PERSONS WITHOUT BIAS OR DISCRIMINATION GOES BEYOND BEING THE NEW NORMAL - IT IS ROOTED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS.................

HAVING PULLED THE PLUG AFTER JUST THREE WEEKS ON THE RYAN-TRUMP REPUBLICAN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION THE PRESIDENTS PLAYS THE BLAME GAME AND MOVES ON ATTEMPTING TO PASS HIS NEXT PRIORITIES - TAX CUTS INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING THE BORDER WALL EQUALLY HEAVY LIFTING TO HEALTH CARE.................

MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT : REURN TO CANA IN GALILEE - FOLLOWING HIS ENCOUNTER WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN JESUS GOES BACK TO HIS NATIVE PLACE EXERCISING HIS HEALING MINISTRY WHILE THERE.................

BEING IN THE LIGHT PERMITS US TO SEE CORRECTLY AND FOLLOW ACCURATELY THE DIRECTION OUT OF THE DARKNESS.................

6 RESIDENTS ATTEND THE FIRST WEEKLY SUNDAY MASS I PRESIDE @ ESKATON MONROE.................

BEGINNING TODAY AT 9:30 AM - PRESIDING AT SUNDAY MASS AND THE WEEKLY CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST @ ESKATON MONROE LOUNGE IN LAND PARK WHERE I RESIDE AS AN EXTENSION AND ASSISTANCE TO HOLY SPIRIT PARISH.................

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT : BREAKING THROUGH THE DARKNESS INTO LIGHT - THE MAN BORN BLIND COMES TO SIGHT THROUGH PERSEVERANCE IN THE HEALING POWER OF GOD's SPIRIT OF LOVE.................

SATURDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD - HELP US DO YOUR HOLY WILL O LORD.................

AT THIS HOUR THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN SPONSORED BY SPEAKER RYAN AND SUPPORTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP SCHEDULED TO BE VOTED UPON ALTHOUGH A POSSIBLE PULLING OF THE BILL FOR LACK OF SUFFICENT VOTES FOR PASSAGE BEING FLOATED.................

ESKATON MONROE LENTEN DEVOTIONAL SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST - 3 & 4 "SON HERE IS YOUR MOTHER...MOTHER HERE IS YOUR SON".................

FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : JESUS ADDRESSES THE MITZVOT - THE 613 COMMANDS OF THE JEWISH LAW...PRONOUNCING IN THEIR STEAD THE 2 GREAT COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE OF GOD AND LOVE OF NEIGHBOR.................

AS THE VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE REFORM REPEAL AND REPLACE BILL IS DELAYED FOR NEED OF MORE SUPPORT TO PASS IT POLITICS AS STIRRED UP AND REVOLVING AROUND AND MANY OF ASSOCIATES COMPETES WITH AND OVERSHADOWS EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE.................

FIRED UP RENEWED IN THE FURNACE OF LENTEN REPENTANCE WHAT ARE YOU SPIRITUALLY THIRSTING AND HUNGERING FOR ?.................

THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : LUKE'S GOSPEL ACCOUNT OF JESUS AND THE DEMONIAC CONCENTRATES UPON THE SOURCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIST's POWER.................

WITH THE REPUBLICAN AFFORDABLE CARE ACT REPEAL AND REPLACE BILL SCHEDULED TO BE VOTED ON THURSDAY NIGHT THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALLS FOR MAJOR CHANGES IN THE LEGISLATION BEFORE IT IS VOTED INTO LAW.................

PRESUMPTIVE TERRORIST INCIDENT TODAY IN LONDON ENGLAND AS A CAR CRASHES INTO PEOPLE ON WESTMINISTER BRIDGE AND A MAN RUNS THROUGH A GATE OUTSIDE THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WIELDING A KNIFE STABBING A POLICE OFFICER THEN SHOT.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : JESUS' PUBLIC MINISTRY AND MISSION WAS NOT TO ABOLISH OR OBSTRUCT THE LAW OF MOSES BUT TO FULFILL IT THROUGH HIS REDEMPTIVE SACRIFICE.................

HUMANKIND's CONNECTION WITH GOD THE ETERNAL AND SUPREME BEING OF THE UNIVERSE IS ALWAYS A PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP NOT A PRIVATE ASSOCIATION.................

THE OPENING OF JUDGE GORSUCH's UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOMINATION HEARING BEING OVERSHADOWED YESTERDAY BY THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE F.B.I. / N.S.A. DIRECTORS TESTIMONY - THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE BEGINS TODAY THE QUESTIONING OF THE JUSTICE-DESIGNATE IN AN EXPECTED 10 HOUR DAY OF TESTIMONY.................

TUESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : ACCEPTING THE MANTLE OF FORGIVENESS AND FORGIVING BY 7 x 77 x 777 INFINITELY.................

RELIGIOUS SPIRITUAL BELIEVING PEOPLE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HIGHEST POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WHO IS PERFECT LOVE RECONCILIATION AND REDEMPTION FOR HUMANKIND ARE DISCIPLES OF LOVE MERCY AND UNITY.................

THE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS FOR UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOMINEE JUDGE NEIL GORSUCH OPEN TODAY.................

MONDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT : THE SOLEMNITY OF ST.JOSEPH HUSBAND OF MARY LEGAL FATHER OF JESUS (transferred from yesterday)

TODAY's MARCH HANDICAPABLES MASS AT 12 NOON IS IN MY NATIVE PARISH OF ST. ROSE's SOUTH SACRAMENTO.................

ENDING THE CHASM OF DIVISION AND ALIENATION JESUS' UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION WITH THE WOMAN FROM SAMARIA WAS AN EXPERIENCE OF CONVERSION AND HEALING FOR HER.................

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT : OUR EXDOUS FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN AND DEATH IS DELIVERED IN THE GREAT I AM WHO IS JESUS CHRIST AND MANIFESTED IN PART BY HIS ENCOUNTER WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN.................

TELLING AND RE-TELLING THE STORIES OF THE ETERNAL SACRED IN WHICH WE SHARE.................

SATURDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON / FORGIVING FATHER / UNREQUITED SON IS PERSUASIVE HUMANLY AND RELATIONALLY FOR OUR ABILITY TO IDENTIFY WITH IT.................

AT A NEWS PHOTO OPPORTUNITY FOLLOWING THEIR MEETING IN THE OVAL OFFICE PRESIDENT TRUMP IGNORES THE REQUEST OF CHANCELLOR MERKEL FOR THE CUSTOMARY HANDSHAKE EXCHANGE FROM THE GERMAN LEADER.................

THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ISSUES TWO APOLOGIES TO PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER's ASSERTION ON THURSDAY THAT THE UK WAS INVOLVED IN THE WIRETAPPING OF POTUS 45.................

FOR REFORMIING AND RECONCILING SINNERS THE FRUITS OF GOD's KINGDOM ARE DISCOVERED IN FAITH THAT VANQUISHES FEAR.................

FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : ST. PATRICK - PROLIFIC MISSIONARY TO AND FROM IRELAND FOR MUCH OF THE WORLD INSPIRING CENTURIES OF VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND RELIGIOUS LIFE.................

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PRESIDENT TRUMP PROPOSES HIS FIRST FEDERAL BUDGET $1.1 TRILLION - WITH MAJOR INCREASES IN DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY ALONGSIDE MASSIVE CUTS IN MORE THAN TWELVE FEDERAL AGENCIES - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION STATE DEPARTMENT FOREIGN AID AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.................

THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : THE GOSPEL PARABLE OF LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN VERIFIES THAT THE CHALLENGE TO ATTAINING THE HUMAN DIGNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL PEOPLES HAS BEEN LONGSTADING THROUGH THE AGES.................

TWO FEDERAL JUDGES IN HAWAII AND MARYLAND PUT PRESIDENT TRUMP's SECON ATTEMPT AT A IMMIGRANT REFUGEE TRAVEL BAN ON HOLD HOURS BEFORE IT WAS TO TAKE EFFECT.................

THE LEGITIMACY OF GOD;s SERVANT SUFFERING FOR THE ILLEGITIMACY OF SINS COMMITTED BY HUMANKIND.................

ANONYMOUS LEAKING OF 2 PAGES OF PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP's 2005 TAX RETURN SHOWS HE PAID $38 MILLION ON AN ADJUSTED $150 MILLION INCOME THAT YEAR - IS THE LEAK A WHITE HOUSE GENERATED DISTRACTION DOWN ANOTHER RABBIT HOLE ?.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUFFERING INTERVENTION OF A DEMANDING MOTHER THE ATTITUDE DISCIPLES ARE MEANT TO HAVE ARE ALL THREE INVOLVED IN TODAY's GOSPEL CHALLENGE TO US.................

FOLLOW THE COMMANDS OF MOSES AND JESUS - BUT DO NOT DO AS THE SCRIBES PHARISEES HYPOCRITES AND SELF RIGHTTEOUS DO.................

THE NONPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO) PROJECTS THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL-WHITE HOUSE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE REPEAL AND REPLACE BILL OF OBAMACARE WILL CUT 14 MILLION INSUREES NEXT YEAR AND 24 MILLION PERSONS IN TOTAL BY 2026.................

TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : PUTTING INTO PERTINENT PRACTICE THE PREACHING OF METANOIA WE PROFESS TO BELIEVE IN AS DISCIPLES OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

TODAY IS THE FIRST RECKONING WITH REALITY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR TE REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE BILL PROPOSAL AS THE NONPARTISAN CBO CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SCORES THE COST AND PROJECTS THE NUMBER OF ACA INSURED WHO WILL LOSE COVERAGE EXPECTED TO BE MANY MILLIONS OF CITIZENS.................

MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT : STORING AND SPENDING THE GOOD GRAIN OF MERCY AND COMPASSION OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER AS THE FATHER MEASURES IT OUT TO US - BOUNDLESSLY.................

ATOP MOUNT TABOR PETER JAMES JOHN GET A PREVIEW OF THE FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS IN JESUS TRAANSFIGURED.................

IS REPRESENTATIVE JOE KENNEDY's IMPASSIONED OPPOSITION TO THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT PROPOSAL BY REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE POLITICALLY PREDICTABLE OR MORALLY EARNEST OR BOTH FOR THE STRENGTHENING AND BETTERMENT OF AFFORDABLE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS.................

THE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT : THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS THE CHRIST IS A FORESHADOWING OF HIS GLORIFICATION AND THE BLESSINGS GOD BESTOWS ON US NOW AND INTO KINGDOM COME.................

THE ANNUAL MCNAMARA LIMELIGHT "IRISH SOCIAL" ST. PATRICK's DAY CELEBRATION TODAY @ CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOUSE.................

THE CALL TO CONTINUING CONVERSION AND THE WAY AND TRUTH TO EVERLASTING LIFE.................

SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : HOW DOES SEEING JESUS CHRIST WITH RENEWED EYES OF FAITH AS THE NEW ADAM FIND FRUITION IN OUR FULFILLMENT OF THE ADORATION CONTRITION THANKSGIVING AND SUPPLICATION OF THE LORD's PRAYER THE OUR FATHER ?.................

POTUS 45 DONALD JOHN TRUMP THE FIRST 50 DAYS - OFF TO A FRENETIC DISORGANIZED AND UNDERWHELMING START REPLETE WITH DECEIT AND INCOMPETENCE.................

INTO THE LORD's HANDS WE COMMEND OUR LENTEN SPIRIT FOR ALL THE CROSSES THAT ARE INHERENTLY A PART OF OUR HUMANITY.................

FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : "THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS" and "THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST" MY ESKATON MONROE LENTEN DEVOTIONAL SERIES BEGINS TODAY.................

FORMER UTAH GOVERNOR OBAMA AMBASSADOR TO CHINA AND TRUMP CRITIC JON HUNTSMAN APPOINTED AMBASSABOR TO RUSSIA.................

THURSDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : OUR INVITATION TO PRAYER - ASKING SEEKING FINDING IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DIVINE AND HUMANKIND.................

A HOUSE DIVIDED - REPUBLICAN MEMBRS OF CONGESS FAR FROM UNITED ON THE PROPOSED HEALTH CARE REPEAL ANDREPACE OBAMACARE EFFORTS AND THE RETENTION OF CEETAUN FACETS OF THE CURRENT LAW.................

ONE WEEK INTO LENT 2017 @ ESKATON MONROE LODGE - PASTORAL PLANNING AND PREPARATIONS DURING THESE 40 DAYS AND FOR THE EASTER TRIDUUM.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : JONAH JESUS AND THE WISDOM MERCY AND LOVE OF GOD.................

WIKILEAKS DUMPS 8,000 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS CONCERNING C.I,A, INTELLIGENCE REVEALING THE METHODS AND PROCEDURES THEY USE IN ORDER TO EMBARRASS AND COMPROMISE THE AGENCY.................

THE EVENTUALITY OF FINDING FORGIVENESS AS OUR CONSCIENCE CAUSES US TO REFORM OUR LIVES.................

CNN-ORC POLL FINDS 65% OF AMERICANS WANT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN HACKING INTO THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.................

TUESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : JESUS INSTRUCTS HIS DISCIPLES TO PRAY THE SIMPLE BUT ACTIVELY PROPELING LORD's PRAYER - THE OUR FATHER.................

ADHERING TO THE DEMAND-MENTS OF GOD's COMMANDMENTS ARE AT THE CRUX OF LENTEN CONVERSION.................

MONDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT : MATTHEW's ACCOUNT OF THELAST JUDGMENT IS ONE OF DETERMING GOOD SHEEP VERSUS BAD GOATS.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCUSES PRESIDENT OBAMA OF WIRETAPPING HIM AT TRUMP TOWER IN NEW YORK DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - PROVIDES NO SUBSTANTIATION FOR CLAIMING SO.................

IN THE WILDERNESS OF THE DESERT JESUS THE CHRIST FACED DOWNED THE TEMPTATION TO SIN PLACED BEFORE HIM.................

THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT : THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS IN THE DESERT BY THE DEVIL HAS HIM AFFIRMING WHO HE TRULY IS AS THE SON OF GOD AND REJECTING THE FALSE PROMISES OF WHO HE MIGHT BECOME.................

THE GOSPEL DIRECTIVE FOR CONVERSION IN OUR CALL TO HOLINESS - ENDING THE VESTIGES OF OPPRESSION FALSE ACCUSATION AND MALICIOUS SPEECH IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.................

SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY : JESUS BY DINING WITH DESPISED TAX COLLECTORS AND NOT PHARISEES AND SCRIBES ACCENTUATES HIS IDENTITY AS THE BRIDEGROOM OF HUMAN REDEMPTION.................

CONTRITE PEOPLE DESIRING A SHARED EXPERIENCE OF RECONCILIATION WITH THE DIVINE.................

ON THIS LENTEN FRIDAY POPE +FRANCIS PREACHES "TRUE FASTING IS HELPING YOUR NEIGHBOR WHILE FALSE FASTING MIXXES RELIGIOSITY WITH DIRTY DEEALS AND BRIBES OF VANITY".................

WILL ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS RECUSAL FROM HEADING UP ANY INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN HACKING OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LEAD TO THE APPOINTMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR ?.................

FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY : THE BIBLICAL IMPERATIVE OF FAST0ING AND THE CHRISTIAN ANTICIPATION OF FEASTING WITH OUR BRIDEGROOM JESUS.................

SACRAMENTO BISHOP +JAIME SOTO ANNOUNCES CHURCHES COULD OFFER SANCTUARY TO UNDOCUMENTED REFUGEES FROM MASS DEPORTATION.................

THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS MET TWICE WITH THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YET DENIED ANY COMMUNICATION WITH THE RUSSIANS AT HIS SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS AS THE AGUSA IN RECENT WEEKS.................

THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY : JESUS DECLARES TO HIS APOSTLES IN TODAY's GOSPEL THAT HE WILL SUFFER DIE AND RISE AGAIN...HOW WILLING ARE WE TO ACCEPT OUR SHARE OF HIS PASSION ?.................

DURING POTUS 45's ADDRESS LAST NIGHT THE MOST EMOTIONAL MOMENTS WERE THE RECOGNITION AND HONOR GIVEN TO KAREN OWEN THE WIDOW OF THE FALLEN NAVY SEAL A MONTH AGO AND THE MOST VOCIFEROUS WAS THE PRESIDENT's PROPOOSAL OF A NEW HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE - V.O.I.C.E. : 'VICTIMS OF IMMIGRANT CRIME ENCOUNTERS'.................

LENT 2017 : THE CORE TRUTH OF LENTEN PRAYER FASTING AND ALMSGIVING ARE THE WORKS OF CHARITY WE CARRY OUT EACH DAY OF THIS PENITENTIAL SEASON.................