THE TWENTY NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE LORD JESUS TURNS THE TABLES ON THE PHARISEES AND SKEPTICS - RENDER UNTO GOD AND CAESAR ACCORDINGLY.................

ACKNOWLEDGING THE VERITY OF THE SON OF MAN AND CONSISTENTLY MAINTAINING HOPE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.................

NINE MONTHS OF UNMITIGATED FAILURE AND POMPOSITY EMITTING FROM EGOMANICAL POTUS 45.................

THE WISDOM OF GOD IS INTRICATELY CONNECTED TO JESUS THE CHRIST AND HIS SALVIFIC MISSION TO HUMANKIND WHICH THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES REJECTED.................

FEAST OF ST. LUKE PHYSICIAN AND APOSTLE - HEALING AND PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL AS AMBASSADORS OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH MARTYR - GROUND UP AS THE WHEAT OF CHRIST AND OUR OBLATIONS OF REPENTANCE AND SACRIFICE THAT ARE ACCEPTABLE OFFERINGS TO GOD.................

SUFFICIENT SIGNS OF FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION HAVE BEEN GIVEN...REPENTANCE MUST TAKE PLACE TO GAIN ADMITTANCE INTO GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE TWENTY EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : WHOM DOES GOD INVITE TO THE BANQUET OF GOD's KINGDOM ?.................

BLESSED AS IS THE MOTHER OF GOD ARE WE WHO RECEIVE THE WORD OF GOD FROM JESUS AND PONDER IT IN OUR HEARTS.................

CLEANING EVIL SPIRITS OUT OF OUR LIVES EMPOWERS US TO BUILD UNITY IN THE ONE KINGDOM OF GOD.................

THE COURAGE AND WISDOM OF TENNESSEE SENATOR BOB CORKER IN CHALLENGING THE DANGER PRESIDENT TRUMP INCREASINGLY POSES TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD.................

HUMAN HURTS OF NEGLECT INJUSTICE AND ABUSE MUST BE HEALED THROUGH PRAYER AS PRESCRIBED BY CHRIST.................

SISTERS MARY AND MARTHA MADE AN EQUALLY IMPORTANT DISCIPLESHIP RESPONSE - INTENT LISTENING AND FERVENT FELLOWSHIP.................

INHERITING THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE REQUIRES BOTH KNOWING AND PRACTICING GOD's LAW OF LOVE FOR HUMANKIND.................

THE TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : CHRISTIAN RESURRECTION IS THE CORNERSTONE OF GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE SEVENTY TWO SUCCESSFULLY RETURNING DISCIPLES ARE INSTRUCTED BY JESUS THE LORD NOT TO REJOICE IN CONTROLLING DEMONS BUT IN HAVING THEIR NAMES WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.................

LISTENING TO OR REJECTING TO THE TEACHINGS AND VALUES IMPARTED BY GOD THE HOLY TRINITY DETERMINES OUR FIDELITY TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP.................

IN TWOS IN 36 PAIRS DISCIPLES APPOINTED BY JESUS IN TODAY's GOSPEL WERE SENT TO CARRY OUT THE CHURCH's UNIVERSAL MISSION TO PROCLAIM GOD'S WORD AND SPREAD JESUS' NAME - JUST AS WE ARE NOW.................

CHOOSING TO UNCONDITIONALLY FOLLOW THE HUMANITARIAN PATH OF JUSTICE PEACE AND CHARITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF CREATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.................

SUPERSEDING THE DIFFICULTIES WE ENCOUNTER ON THE JOURNEY OF FAITH BY BECOMING RESOUNDING MESSENGERS OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

DATELINE LAS VEGAS LAST NIGHT : A MASS SHOOTER FIRES A BARRAGE OF BULLETS FROM THE 32nd FLOOR OF THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL KILLING 50 PEOPLE AND WOUNDING 406 PERSONS ATTENDING A COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL.................

GREATNESS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE EVIDENT IN THE EQUALITY BETWEEN EVERYONE IN ETERNAL COMMUNION WITH GOD.................

THE TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE PARABLE OF THE 2 SONS OF THE VINEYARD OWNER AND REPENTANCE WORTHY OF GOD's KINGDOM.................

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY TOM PRICE RESIGNS/IS FIRED BY POTUS 45 FOR $440,000 COST OF PRIVATE JETS BILLED TO THE GOVERNMENT IN THE PAST 8 MONTHS.................

NATHANAEL WITHOUT DECEPTION PROCLAIMED JESUS TO BE SON OF GOD AND KING OF ISRAEL.................

COLLOCATING OUR AUTHENTICITY IN EMBRACING THE GRACE AND WONDERS OF JESUS CHRIST WITH THE UNFORTUNATE INSINCERITY AND SUPPOSED CONFUSION OF KING HEROD.................

UNDERSTANDING THE WORD OF GOD ENTAILS LIVING THE WORD OF GOD IN WAYS BEFITTING DISCIPLES JESUS THE CHRIST.................

HEARING THE WORD OF GOD PROCLAIMED IN JESUS THE CHRIST TOGETHER MAKES US HIS SISTERS AND BROTHERS.................

HOLDING OUR SHARE IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST BOLDLY AND BRIGHTLY IN HEARING AND RESPONDING TO THE WORD OF GOD.................

ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY 25 : SHINING FORTH THE LIGHT OF GOD's WORD BY UNDERSTANDING AND SHARING IT WITH OTHERS.................

THE SEED OF FAITH WHEN SOWN IN FERTILE SOIL PRODUCES GOD's GRACE YIELDING A FRUITFUL STEWARDSHIP OF GOD's CREATION.................

MARY MAGDALENE JOANNA AND SUSANNA WERE VITAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PROMULGATION OF JESUS' MINISTRY .................

JESUS CHOSE MATTHEW WITH THE WORDS "FOLLOW ME" A CALL TO APOSTLESHIP AND EMBRACING "MERCY NOT SACRIFICE" AS HIS DISCIPLES.................

THE JOYS AND SORROWS IN CHRIST's PUBLIC MINISTRY ARE AN INVITATION FOR US TO BOTH WEEP AND DANCE WITH JESUS.................

JESUS' RAISING OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN's SON INTENSIFIES THE REALITY OF HIS POWER BEING GOD TO HEAL AND RESURRECT.................

OUR HEALING AND OUR HOPE RESIDE IN COMMUNION WITH JESUS THE CHRIST IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST.................

COMMEMORATING DR. DOUGLAS JOHNSON RETIRED NAVAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERT SACRAMENTO STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND 4 DECADES OF FRATERNAL FRIENDSHIPS WITH HIS SONs AND DAUGHTERS.................

THE TWENTY FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : ACTS OF FORGIVENESS ARE INFINITE FOR DISCIPLES OF JESUS THE CHRIST

A GOSPEL INSIGHT - GOOD TREES OF FAITHFULNESS FIDELITY AND FELLOWSHIP DO NOT PRODUCE CORRUPTION SIN OR SELFISHNESS.................

PRESIDING AT THE FUNERAL MEMORIAL SERVICE OF GEORGE R. LINGONIS - SACRAMENTO STATE LAMBDA CHI ALPHA ALUMNUS.................

THE EXALTATION OF CHRIST's CROSS FOR BELIEVERS IS GOD's LIFTING OF HIS SON FROM DEATH WILL BECOME OUR LIFTING TO ETERNAL LIFE.................

THE BEATITUDES IN LUKE's GOSPEL CONSISTING OF 4 BLESSINGS AND 4 ADMONITIONS AS A BLUEPRINT FOR CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP.................

THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF THE POWER THE HEALING TOUCH OF JESUS HAS UPON US AS PEOPLE OF GOD.................

JESUS' HEALING OF THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND ON THE SABBATH VERIFIES HIS SUPREMACY OVER EVERY DAY OF LIFE.................

THE TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME :THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL AND MATTHEW'S GOSPEL PROCLAIM THE IMPERATIVE OF SPEAKING HONESTLY AS GOD's PEOPLE.................

AS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND STEVE BANNON CONTINUE TO POLITICIZE THE OBAMA D.A.C.A.EXECUTIVE ORDER THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE A COMPASSIONATE POINTED DEFENSE OF D.A.C.A. DREAMERS CONSISTENT WITH LONGSTANDING CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING.................

THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS FROM DAVID AND ABRAHAM TO JOSEPH AND MARY VERIFIES HIS MESSIAHSHIP AS THE HOPE OF THE NATIONS.................

SIMON PETER CALLS JESUS THE CHRIST BY THE TITLE 'MASTER'- FOR TRULY BEING THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE.................

THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS OF THE EXORCISING OF THE MAN BESET WITH A DEMON THE HEALING OF SIMON PETERs MOTHER IN LAW AND HEALING OF COUNTLESS OTHERS AMPLIFY HOW THE HEALING POWER OF JESUS CHRIST IS EXTENDED TO ALL PEOPLE.................

THE VIVID TRUTH OF GOSPEL VALUES IN EXORCISING EVIL AS JESUS DESIRES FROM OUR LIVES.................

LABOR DAY USA - CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALLS FOR THE FLOURISHING OF THE FAMILY UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF POVERTY AND SOLIDARITY WITH PERSONS ON THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY.................

TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : JESUS IS REALISTIC WITH HIS DISCIPLES - FOLLOWING HIM NECESSARILY INCLUDES SHARING IN SUFFERING AND DEATH BUT WILL RESULT IN RESURRECTION.................

THE GOSPEL PARABLE OF THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE TALENTS / SPIRITUAL GRACES WE POSSESS FOR GOD's GREATER GLORY AND THE COMMON GOOD.................

REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO STAY AWAKE AND ALERT FOR THE COMING AGAIN OF THE DIVINE BRIDEGROOM.................

LAST THINGS AND END TIMES CRYSTALIZE IN THE CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW's GOSPEL AS BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST WE REMAIN READY FOR HIS RETURN IN GLORY.................

HUMANITY's SACRED TRUTH IS EXEMPLIFIED IN EMBRACING CONTEMPARARY PROPHETIC VOICES AS WELL AS HONORING PAST PROPHETS.................

KING HEROD's MORAL COMPLEXITIES AND COMPROMISED LEADERSHIP CAUSED HIM TO BEHEAD JOHN THE BAPTIST BUT HE COULD NOT KILL HIS PROPHETIC VOICE AS FORERUNNER TO THE CHRIST.................

JESUS THE MESSIAH OF GOD's PEOPLE EXHORTS HIS DISCIPLES TO GO BEYOND THE PHARISEES LEGALISM AND LIVE FULLY THE SPIRIT OF DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS.................

THE TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE APOSTLE PETER WAS JESUS' CHOICE TO BE THE CHURCH's PRIMATIAL LEADER FOR LEARNING TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF CHRIST.................

AVERTING BEING PHARISAICAL BY AFFIRMING OUR BELIEF IN THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

8 YEARS AGO TODAY - MY KIDNEY TRANSPLANT IN MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA.................

ST. BARTHOLOMEW AND NATHANIEL : TWO MEN - ONE APOSTLE.................

YET ANOTHER BIZAARE UNSCRIPTED OFF THE RAILS CAMPAIGN STYLE SPEECH BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN PHOENIX ARIZONA LAST NIGHT FULL OF LIES AND DIVISIVENESS IN A WORD - UNHINGED.................

THE CHALLENGING SUMMONS OF TODAY's GOSPEL PARABLE - CONSERVING THE PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR ESPUSED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING.................

POTUS 45's AFGHANISTAN WAR SPEECH WAS VEY SHORT ON SPECIFICS AND DETAILS HIGH ON REDIRECTED RHETORIC AND FIGHTING TO WIN A CONTINUING ENDLESS WAR.................

FOLLOWING JESUS IN FREEDOM INTO GOD's KINGDOM REQUIRES OVERCOMING THE BURDEN OF RICHES.................

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1979.................

TODAY's GOSPEL CHALLENGE -THE RADICAL REALITY OF BEING WHOLEHEARTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JESUS AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN - REVEALS WE ARE MORE THAN INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS / ENEMIES AND OUTCASTS BORDERED IN OR OUT.................

JESUS THE CHRIST CONSIDERS CHILDREN BLESSED FOR BEING CLOSE TO GOD's KINGDOM.................

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE - THE UNBREAKABLE BOND OF A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP.................

THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS THE CONSTANCY OF FORGIVENESS AND THE LORD's PRAYER.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP's LATEST FAILURE IN MORAL LEADERSHIP - MAKING A MORAL EQIVALENCE BETWEEN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE VA PROTESTERS WHO ARE NEO-NAZIS AND KU KLUX KLAN AND COUUNTER PROTESTERS TO THEM.................

THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY :LISTENING TO GOD;s VOICE AND OBSERVING IT RESULTS IN THE CROWN OF GLORY FOR FOR ALL BELIEVERS.................

THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE VIOLENCE AND DEATH STIRRED BY AMERICAN NATIONALISTS IN VIRGINIA USA.................

THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : SUPPLANTING OUR DOUBT AND FEAR WITH GOD's PRESENCE IN BOTH CALM AND STORM.................

IN CHRIST ITS ALL ABOUT FAITH...AS JESUS HEALED THE DEMONIZED SON OF A MAN VERY BELIEVING IN HIS LORDSHIP.................

NEITHER ACCIDENTAL OR FATALISTIC - CHRIST's CRUCIFIXION CONCRETIZES THAT CARRYING OUR CROSSES ARE THE WAY TO ATTAINING GOD's KINGDOM.................

ST. LAWRENCE DEACON AND MARTYR AND THE NECESSITY OF GRAINS OF WHEAT DYING TO BRING FORTH NEW LIFE.................

JESUS' TROUBLING YET HOPEFUL ENCOUNTER WITH THE WOMAN FROM CANAAN - HER PERSISTENCE RESULTS IN THE REALIZATION CAME FOR THE JEWS AND FOR ALL PEOPLES.................

TURNING THE TABLES ON THE PHARISEES THE CHRIST OF CREATION COMPELS THEM TO EXAMINE THEIR CONSCIENCES.................

JESUS' WALK ON WATER DENOTES HIS DIVINE COMMAND OVER THE WIND AND SEA.................

THE EIGTHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : TODY's FEAST - THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD.................

THE MOTIVES BEHIND THE DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WERE JEALOUSY RESENTMENT REVENGE ARROGANCE PRIDE AND SELF CENTEREDNESS.................

THE ASTONISHMENT OFFENSE AND REJECTION OF HIS HOMETOWN RESIDENTS OF JESUS' PROPHETIC VOICE WHEN HE CAME AS THE MESSIAH THEY AWAITED.................

THE PARABLE OF A BURSTING NET FULL OF FISH AND SIFTING THE RIGHTEOUS FROM THE WICKED THE OLD FROM THE NEW THE TEACHING OF MOSSES THE PROPHETS AND OF JESUS CHRIST.................

THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP IS GIVING ALL WE HAVE FOR THE MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE - GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE WHEAT AND THE WEEDS PARABLE JESUS EXPLAINS EMPHASIZES THE JUDGMENT TO HARVEST THE GOOD FROM THE WICKED IN THE HARVEST OF THE END TIMES.................

JESUS PARABOLICALLY TEACHES HIS DISCIPLES THE POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF FAITH PRODUCED FROM GOOD YEAST OR A WELL NURTURED MUSTARD SEED.................

THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE PARABLES OF JESUS TEACH SACRIFICE IS REQUIRED TO REACH OUR FULFILLMENT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.................

MARTHA SiSTER OF LAZARUS AND MARY - EXEMPLARY MODEL OF RESURRECTION HOPE AND HOSPITALITY.................

THE U.S. SENATE DEFEATS A LAST DITCH EFFORT TO REPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 51-49 WITH REPUBLICAN JOHN MCCAIN SUSAN COLLINS AND LISA MURKOWSKI JOINING ALL 48 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS OPPOSING PASSAGE.................

SAFEGUARDING THE GOOD SEED OF FAITH FROM ALLOWING EVIL SUFFERING PERSECUTION WORRY AND MONEY FROM KILLING IT.................

TEACHINGS BY JESUS TO HIS DISCIPLES IN PARABLES ABOUT THE COMING OF GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE PARENTS OF THE BLESSED MOTHER THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND GOD's WORD PLANTED WITHIN US.................

THE FEAST OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE - UNDERSCORING THE TRANSCENDENCE OF OUR PLACES IN GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE SIGN OF JONAH CAUSED THE NINEVITES TO BELIEVE...THE SIGHT OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE PHARISEES STILL FAILED TO BELIEVE

THE SiXTHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME :THE 3 PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM GIVE US A GLIMPSE OF GOD's REIGN.................

MARY MAGDALENE's REPENTANCE CHRISTENED HER THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS APOSTLE TO THE APOSTLES.................

MATTHEW's GOSPEL DOUBLES DOWN ON THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET HOSEA, "I DESIRE MERCY NOT SACRIFICE".................

6 MONTHS TODAY AS POTUS 45 AND TRUMP IS ASKING ABOUT HIS PARDON POWER IN REGARDS TO HIS STAFF HIS FAMILY AND HIMSELF...REPORTING THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE NEW YORK TIMES.................

JESUS CONSOLES HIS STEADFAST DISCIPLES THEIR BURDENS WILL BE EASY AND THEIR YOKES LIGHT.................

THE JOY AND HOPE THE GOSPEL PROCLAIMS FOR PEOPLE WHO PRAISE AND GLORIFY GOD.................

THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL COLLAPSES AND A REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW PASS REPLACEMENT BILL LATER MCCONNELL PUTS FORWARD AS A THIRD ATTEMPT.................

BELIEVING AND INTEGRATING THE GOSPEL MIRACLES OF JESUS THE CHRIST INTO OUR FAITH JOURNEYS.................

JESUS TELLS HIS APOSTLES THE PEACE HE BRINGS YIELDS DIVISION EVEN WITHIN FAMILIES UNLESS WE LOVE EACH OTHER IN CHRIST.................

THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER - RECEIVING AND RESPONDING TO GOD''s WORD.................

FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST MUST EXPECT THE SAME AS THE TEACHER FOR "NO DISCIPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MASTER".................

HAVING ESCAPED BRIEFLY FROM WHAT A WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL ADVISER IS CALLING "A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE IN THE WEST WING" PRESIDENT TRUMP RETURNS FROM HIS 2 DAY WITH FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON IN PARIS.................

A DISCIPLESHIP OF GOSPEL VALUES IS REALIZED BY MORAL DEDICATION IN MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS.................

FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 2 MONTHS POTUS INTERNATIONALLY FLYS AWAY FROM WASHINGTON FOR PARIS FRANCE FOR BASTILLE DAY TOMORROW.................

GOD SPOKE TO JACOB URGING HIM TO GO TO EGYPT JUST AS JESUS SPOKE TO HIS APOSTLES COMMISSIONING THEM TO GO FORTH.................

THE U.S. SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS FOR NEW F.B.I. DIRECTOR NOMINEE CHRISTOPHER RAY OPEN ON CAPITOL HILL....HE PLEDGES HIS "STRICT INDEPENDENCE".................

JESUS THE CHRIST APPOINTED THE TWELVE APOSTLES TO HELP HIM DRIVE OUT DEMONS CURE THE SICK AND PROCLAIM GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT DIRECTS PEOPLE OF GOD IN A SIMPLICITY OF LIVING FAITH IN THE DIVINE .................

MONDAY's GOSPEL PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE FLOWING HEALING POWER OF JESUS TO PERSONS WITH FAITH IN GOD.................

14th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : JESUS REVEALS GOD's KINGDOM IS FOR THE LITTLE ONES AND THE MEEK AND GENTLE OF HEART.................

COURAGE IN FACING NEW ENCOUNTERS NOT WITH THE OLD BUT RATHER THE NEW WINESKINS OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND SPIRITUALITY.................

2017 HAS BECOME THE NATIONAL SUMMER OF "ADAPT" IN THE UNITED STATES.................

ACCEPTING AND CALLING MATTHEW TO APOSTLESHIP JESUS AFFIRMS INCLUSION NOT DISMISSAL IS BEING TRULY CHRISTIAN

WHEN WE ARE REPENTANT JESUS BRINGS HEALING AND FORGIVES OUR SINS.................

NORTH KOREA's TUESDAY MISSILE TEST VERIFIED AS HAVING INTERCONTINTENTAL BALLISTIC CAPABILITY THAT COULD REACH ALASKA.................

THE DAWNING OF THE DISCIPLES DISCOVERY THAT JESUS IS TRULY SON OF GOD GIVEN HIS CONTROL OVER THE WINDS AND SEA.................

THE UNITED STATES 241st INDEPENDENCE DAY : BEING WHOLISTICALLY INCLUSIVE OF ALL OUR CITIZENS - PARTICULARLY PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS.................

THE LESSON DERIVED FROM ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE : OVERCOMING DOUBT PERMITS US TO BELIEVE CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD.................

THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE GOSPEL SUMMONS TO BE PROPHETIC WITNESSES OF DIVINE TRUTH WHO WILL RECEIVE A PROPHET's REWARD.................

TODAY's GOSPEL AND THE MARVELOUS INTERRACTION BETWEEN JESUS AND THE ROMAN CENTURION IN THEIR PRESENCE TO EACH OTHER.................

WHAT JESUS' ENCOUNTER TOUCH AND HEALING OF A LEPER IN TODAY'S GOSPEL TEACHES US ABOUT THE DIVINE WORD.................

THE PRINCIPAL APOSTOLIC WITNESSING OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL TO JESUS THE LORD AS THE CHRIST OF CREATION.................

BEING PEOPLE ABOUNDING IN HOPE WE MUST ALSO BE PRUDENT IN DISPENSING TRUST BY DISAVOWING FALSEHOOD AND AFFIRMING GOOD FRUITS....................

LACKING THE VOTES FOR PASSAGE MITCH MCCONNELL POSTPONES THE SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL UNTIL FTER THE 4th OF JULY RECESS.................

CREATED AS MORE THAN DOGS AND SWINE HUMANS ARE MEANT TO FIND AND FOLLOW THE NARROW PATH OF TRUE DISCIPLESHIP IN THE LIVING ANE EVERLASSTING GOD.................

OUR GOSPEL CHALLENGE TODAY- AVOIDING JUDGMENTALISM THE DARK SIDE OF INAUTHENTIC DISCIPLES.................

12th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : JESUS TEACHES HIS DISCIPLES TO RISE ABOVE ABANDOMENT PERSECUTION AND FEAR BY TRUST IN IN OUR ALL PRESENT ALL LOVING GOD.................

THE ULTIMATE PROPHETIC VOICE AT THE INCEPTION OF THE MESSIANIC ARRIVAL : JOHN THE BAPTIST.................

CATHOLIC-CHRISTIANS' DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CELEBRATED TODAY ON THIS ANNUAL JUNE LITURGICAL FEAST.................

41 DAYS AFTER ALLUDING TO HAVING TAPES OF HIS MEETINGS WITH FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS HE HAS NO TAPE RECORDINGS.................

THURSDAY 11 ORDINARY TIME : AS PEOPLE OF GOD WHO TRULY CARE ABOUT WHOLISTIC LIFE AND FAITH WE PRAY THE LORD's PRAYER / THE OUR FATHER.................

ORDINARY TIME WEDNESDAY 11 : THE KEYS TO THE DISCIPLESHIP OF TRUSTING ALWAYS IN JESUS WHO IS LORD ARE THE BEATITUDES.................

UPDATE GEORGIA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6 SPECIAL ELECTION : AFTER A CLOSELY CONTESTED CONTENTIOUS CAMPAIGN REPUBLICAN HANDEL WINS OVER YOUNG DEMOCRAT OSSOFF.................

TUESDAY 11 IN ORDINARY TIME : THE STANDARD JESUS THE CHRIST SETS FOR OUR DISCIPLESHIP IS LOVE ONE ANOTHER BOTH THE GOOD AND THE BAD...BEING GOD-LIKE OUR GOAL.................

TWO MORE VEHICULAR TERRRORIST ACTS ONE OUTSIDE A LONDON MOSQUE THE OTHER IN PARIS ON THE CHAMPS ELYSEE

ORDINARY TIME MONDAY 11 : CHRISTIAN DISCIPLES ARE DEFINED BY MERCY AND PROPORTIONATE RESPONSES IN JUSTICE.................

THE SUNDAY SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI : AFFIRMING BELIEF IN THE REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST.................

SATURDAY OF WEEK 10 IN ORDINARY TIME : 45 YEARS AFTER THE WATERGATE BREAK IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS UP AS POTUS 45 ACKNOWLEDGES HE IS UNDER INVESTIGAATION.................

FRIDAY 10 IN ORDINARY TIME : IN PRACTICING GOSPEL VALUES JESUS URGES DISCIPLES TO GO BEYOND THE LETTER OF THE LAW.................

THURSDAY WEEK 10 IN ORDINARY TIME :AT THE KERNEL OF SACRED TRUTH FOR HUMANKIND IS JUSTICE AND MERCY.................

WEDNESDAY WEEK 10 IN ORDINARY TIME : THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW COVENANTS.................

ORDINARY TIME TUESDAY WEEK 10 : THE SALT AND LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP.................

ORDINARY TIME SUMMER SCRIPTURE : MATTHEW's GOSPEL WEEK 10 MONDAY- THE BEATITUDES.................

HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY : THE THREE IN ONE SOLEMNITY OF THE SUPREME GODHEAD - FATHER SON HOLY SPIRIT.................

SATURDAY OF ORDINARY TIME WEEK 9 : THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST-FOLLOWERS IS MEASURED BY A GENEROUS SPIRIT RATHER THAN THE QUANTITY OF CONTRIBUTION.................

FOLLOWING FORMER DIRECTOR COMEY's SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TESTIMONY ON THURSDAY SOME SENATORS SAY WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DONE MAY BE UNETHICAL BUT NOT ILLEGAL.................

ORDINARY TIME FRIDAY WEEK 9 : IN TODAY's GOSPEL PROCLAMATION JESUS THE CHRIST TELLS THOSE WHO SKEPTICALLY QUESTIONED HIM HE IS "SON OF DAVID" AND THAT "HE IS LORD".................

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY LOSES THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN A HUNG PARLIAMENT OUTCOME IN HER WAY EARLY CALLED GENERAL ELECTION.................

IN HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TODAY FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY ANSWERING QUESTIONS SAID MULTIPLE TIMES PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS LIED ABOUT WHAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN THEM AND COULD NOT TRUST POTUS 45 TO TELL THE TRUTH.................

UNITED IN THE PURPOSES OF LIFE GOD INTENDS FOR TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE WORD SUPREME.................

THE AFTERMATH OF THE COMEY FIRING BY POTUS 45 COMES TO CRITICAL MASS THIS MORNING WITH THE FORMER F.B.I. DIRECTOR's TESTIMONY TODAY BEFORE THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.................

ORDINARY TIME THURSDAY WEEK 9 : AS THE GOSPEL PROCLAIMS POLITICAL CONTROVERSY IS INESCAPABLE - TODAY THE JAMES COMEY SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TESTIMONY.................

JOINED WITH POPE +FRANCIS AND ALL GOD CENTERED PASTORAL AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS IN SPREADING THE WEALTH OF HOPE.................

ORDINARY TIME WEDNESDAY WEEK 9 : JESUS CHRIST AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM DO NOT DUCK CONTROVERSIAL AND PROPHETIC POLITICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ISSUES WE SUPPORT AND SPEAK THE SACRED TRUTH OF ALMIGHTY GOD.................

ORDINARY TIME TUESDAY WEEK 9 : MAINTAINING OUR MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS TO CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSIBILITIES AS PEOPLE OF GOD.................

HAVING HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST LIFTS OUR SPIRITS TO OVERCOME BEING FRAZZLED OR DISENCHANTED BY DESPAIR.................

ORDINARY TIME MONDAY WEEK 9 - ADHERING TO MORALS AND ETHICS AS ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES TRY TO CO-OPT AND DISMISS THEM.................

BEING LIVING STONES OF HOPE AND TRUST EVERYDAY.................

THE 18 WEEKS OF THE HIGH SEASONS OF LITURGICAL YEAR 2017 ENDED...WE RETURN TO THE REMAINING 26 WEEKS OF ORDINARY TIME.................

THE 50 GLORIOUS DAYS OF THE EASTER SEASON CONCLUDES - PENTECOST SUNDAY : THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES REMEMBRANCE OF THE EXODUS AND THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.................

TRIPLE ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN LONDON ENGLAND TONIGHT POSSIBLE ISIS TERRORISM 5 DAYS BEFORE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION.................

THE SEVENTH AND CLOSING SATURDAY OF THE PASCHAL SEASON : FOLLOWWING THE RISEN ASCENDED JESUS THE CHRIST IS THE UTMOST JOURNEY OF LIFE THAT LEADS TO GOD's KINGDOM.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NOT LET OTHER NATIONS LAUGH AT THE UNITED STATES AS HE WITHDRAWS US FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE ACCORDS - BUT THEY ARE LAUGHING AT THE CLOWN POTUS 45 IS.................

THE SEVENTH FRIDAY OF THE PASCHAL SEASON : DAY 48 OF THE FIFTY GLORIOUS DAYS.................

VLADIMIR PUTIN ADMITS "PATRIOTIC RUSSIANS" MAY HAVE TAMPERED IN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...CAN A LINKAGE WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BE FAR BEHIND ?.................

THURSDAY OF THHE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER : MEMORIAL OF ST. JUSTIN MARTYR HAS A GOSPEL PROCLAMATION FORETELLING THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. PETER.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY MAGNIFYING THEGREATNESS OF THE LORD JESUS.................

POTUS 45 SEEKING TO SET UP A WAR ROOM IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO COMBAT THE RUSSIAN ELECTION TAMPERING INVESTIGATION FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN STAFFERS CORY LEWENDOWSKI AND DAVID BOSSI ARE LIKELY CANDIDATES TO LEAD IT.................

AFTER NO TWEETS WHILE ON HIS INTERNATIONAL TRIP PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRES OFF 5 TWEETS MONDAY AS HE DEFENDS HIS SON IN LAW.................

TUESDAY OF THE SEVENTH WEEK OF PASCHAL JOY : CHOOSING TO PROMOTE WORDS OF HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE RISEN AND ASCENDED CHRIST.................

POTUS 45 BACK AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER NINE DAYS ABOARD LAYS MEMORIAL DAY WREATH AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY AND COMMENDS / DEFENDS HIS SON IN LAW JARED KUSHNER.................

MONDAY OF THE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER : MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY USA - REVERING THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN DEFENDING OUT COUNTRY.................

THE MAY HANDICAPABLES MINISTRY MASS IS IN LAND PARK @ HOLY SPIRIT PARISH CHURCH.................

THE EASTER SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.................

SATURDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER : JESUS PREPARES HIS DISCIPLES FOR HIS ASCENT TELLING THEM THEY WILL NOW PETITION THE ETERNAL FATHER.................

JARED KUSHNER CHIEF ASSISTANT AND SON IN LAW OF PRESIDENT TRUMP REPORTEDLY SOUGHT TO SET UP A SECRET BACK CHANNEL WITH THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AND THE KREMLIN LAST DECEMBER ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST.................

FRIDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF THE PASCHAL SEASON : CONTINUING ALLEGIANCE TO THE NEW RESURRECTED ASCENDED JESUS CHRIST MOVES US BEYOND THE PAIN OF HIS PASSION TO HOPE IN EVERLASTING LIFE.................

BREAKING NEWS - PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND SON IN LAW JARED KUSHNER IS UNDER SCRUTINY BY THE F.B.I. FOR MEETINGS WITH THE RUSSIANS AND ATTEMPTS TO QUASH THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION.................

ON THE EVE OF TODAY's SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE MONTANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEAT THE REPUBLICAN CADIDATE BODY SLAMS A REPORTER FROM THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER.................

THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO) SCORES THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT LEGISLATION PASSED BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS WILL EXCLUDE 23 MILLION PEOPLE FROM HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.................

THURSDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER : TRANSITIONS THE FOCUS OF THE PASCHAL MYSTERY ONTO THE ACTUALITY OF THE ASCENSION OF JESUS AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.................

ON TO BRUSSELS BELGIUM FOR THE NATO SUMMIT THIS DAY 5 OF POTUS 45's FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF THE PASCHAL SEASON : JESUS PREPARES HIS DISCIPLES FOR HIS IMMINENT DEPARTURE ASSURING THEM HE WILL NOT LEAVE THEM ALONE BUT SEND THE SPIRIT TO THEM.................

GRATEFUL THANKS TO THE BLOGREADERS OF "INSIGHTS INTO LIFE AND FAITH" BY REVEREND FATHER TROY DAVID POWERS NOW HAVING SURPASSED 1,000.000 PAGE VIEWS.................

TUESDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE RISEN JESUS INSTRUCTS HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE TROUBLES THEY WILL FACE WHEN HE RETURNS TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER ASSURING THEM THE ADVOCATE BEING SENT WILL SUSTAIN AND STRENGTHEN THEM.................

THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO ASKED THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COATES AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR RODGERS TO TRY STOPPING THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVING MICHAEL FLYNN AND RUSSIA WHO TODAY PLEADED THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IN THE MATTER.................

POTUS 45 FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP DAY 3 : PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITS ISRAEL TOURING THE HOLY SEPULHCRE CHURCH AND THE WESTERN WALL THIS MORNING.................

MONDAY OF THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE ADVOCATE THE PARACLETE SENT BY GOD THE FATHER TESTIFIES TO JESUS CHRIST AND DISCIPLES OF CHRIST TESTIFY TO THEIR UNITY.................

POTUS 45 INTERNATIONAL TRIP DAY 2 - PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES AN ADDRESS IN SAUDI ARABIA ON THE ISLAMIC RELIGION WITH QUESTIONABLE WARY PURPOSES.................

THE SIXTH SUNDAY IN THE SEASON OF EASTER : LOVING GOD ENTAILS UNITY WITH THE DIVINE AND FOLLOWING THE COMMANDMENTS GIVEN TO US BY GOD THE FATHER IN THE CHRIST JESUS.................

DAY 1 OF THE 9 DAY 5 NATION PRESIDENTIAL TRIP OF POTUS 45 - CELEBRATING THE REGAL AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES OF THE SAUDI ARABIA ROYAL FAMILY TRUMP STYLE.................

SATURDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER : GOSPEL VALUES AND PRIESTLY DUTY CALL ME TO CELEBRATE MASS IN GREENHAVEN THIS A.M. .................

LIFTED OFF IN FLIGHT ON HIS FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP TO 5 COUNTRIES IN 9 DAYS NEWS CONTINUES TO BREAK IN THE NEW YORK TIMES WITH COVERAGE OF POTUS 45 BRAGGING TO THE RUSSIANS ABOUT HOW HIS FIRING OF JAMES COMEY TOOK PRESSURE OFF HIM.................

FRIDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE PASCHAL COMMAND FOR NEW AND RISEN LIFE : LOVE EACH OTHER AS JESUS LOVES US.................

POTUS 45 DONALD JOHN TRUMP SAYS THE RUSSIAN 2016 ELECTION COLLUSION ALLEGATION IS THE "GREATEST WITCH HUNT EVER IN AMERICAN HISTORY".................

THURSDAY OF THHE FIFTH WEEK OF THE PASCHAL SEASON OF JOY AND HOPE : REMAINING IN JESUS CHRIST IS REMAINING IN GOD THE HEAVENLY FATHER's LOVE.................

FORMER F.B.I. DIRECTOR ROBERT MUELLER (2001-2005) APPOINTED SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IN THE RUSSIAN USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TAMPERRING INVESTIGATION BY DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSENSTEIN.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER BEING EVER MORE IN UNISON WITH THE UNITY OF GOD THE ETERNAL FATHER AND THE CO-ETERNAL SON OF OUR REDEMPTION.................

THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS JUST REPORTED AND CNN AND MSNBC ARE CONFIRMING SOURCES SAY FORMER F..B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY WROTE A MEMO SAYING PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKED HIM TO CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION OF MICHAEL FLYNN.................

THE FIFTH TUESDAY IN THE EASTER SEASON : JESUS' PASCHAL MYSTERY BRINGS THE JOY OF NEW LIFE.................

THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP REVEALED HIGHLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION CONCERNING ISIS TO THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN THE OVAL OFFICE LAST WEEK.................

MONDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER :LOVE IS THE IMPERATIVE INGREDIENT IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON AND WITH US WHO BELIEVE IN AND SEEK GOD.................

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY IN THE USA AND MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.................

THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER : THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST JESUS.................

SATURDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER : TODAY IS THE CENTENNIAL OF THE APPARITION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO THREE YOUNG CHILDREN IN PORTUGAL.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS A THREAT TO FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY REGARDING THEIR JANUARY 27th WHITE HOUSE DINNER MEETING - LEAK DETAILS AND THERE MADE BE TAPES...CONJURING UP SHADES OF NIXONIAN TACTICS.................

FRIDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS THE CHRIST IS THE WAY TO LIFE EVERLASTING LIFTING HEARTS FROM TROUBLE.................

IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NBC NIGHTLY NEWS ANCHOR LESTER HOLT PRESIDENT TRUMP OFFERS A SELF SERVING DELUSIONAL UPENDING REVERSAL ABOUT WHY HE FIRED F.B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY ... CALLING COMEY A SHOWHORSE AND A GRANDSTANDER.................

LIES LIES LIES - VICE PRESIDENT PENCE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SARAH HUCKABEE COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT KELLYANNE CONWAY SHOWN TO HAVE LIED WITH A VERBATIM SCRIPT ABOUT WHY THE FIRING OF DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY -IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CAPABLE OF TELLING THE TRUTH ?.................

THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF THE PASCHAL SEASON : SERVING OTHERS AS WELL AS BEING SERVED IN ACCLAIMING THE RISEN SHEPHERD OF REDEMPTION - JESUS CHRIST "THE GREAT I AM".................

HOW WILL THE FIRING OF F.B.I. DIRECTOR COMEY IMPACT AND OR IMPEDE THE RUSSIAN ELECTION TAMPERING AND POTENTIAL TRUMP CAMPAIGN TIES INVESTIGATION ?.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER : JESUS SAVES HUMANKIND FOR HE AND GOD THE FATHER ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT AND SACRED TRUTH.................

POTUS 45 DAY 109 : KING DONALD REIGNING OVER THE DIVIDED STATES OF TRUMP AS A CONSTITUTIONAL SHOWDOWN CRYSTALIZES.................

UPDATE THE WHITE HOUSE : BOMBSHELL - PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRES F.B.I. DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY.................

TUESDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER : 30 YEARS AGO TODAY DATELINE SAN FRANCISCO - WHERE MY 4 ARCHDIOCESAN SEMINARY CLASSMATES INCLUDING NOW MOST REVEREND BISHOP +THOMAS ANTHONY DALY WERE ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.................

JESUS CHRIST OUR GOOD SHEPHERD CARES FOR THE SHEEP OF HIS FLOCK FAR GREATER THAN A HIRED HAND WITH A LOVE THAT EMBRACES THOSE WHO LISTEN TO HIS VOICE AS THE ONE FLOCK OF FAITHFUL PEOPLE OF GOD.................

MONDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER :PROVIDING THE AWARENESS AND SUPPORT NECESSARY IN OUR FAMILIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOODS AND WORKPLACES TO IDENTIFY AND AFFIRM MANY MORE NATIVE VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD IN OUR SACRAMENTO DIOCESE.................

CENTER LEFT CANDIDATE EMMANUEL MACRON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FRANCE DEFEATING FAR RIGHT CANDIDATE MARINE LEPEN.................

SUNDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER : THE RISEN JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF OUR SOULS.................

HOW OPTIMISTIC WE REMAIN AS PEOPLE OF GOD IN THE EASTER HOPE OF REDEMPTION.................

SATURDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF THE PASCHAL SEASON :PETER ANSWERS JESUSON BEHALF OF ALL THE APOSTLES "MASTER YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF EVERLASTING LIFE"..................................

UNITED STATES SENATE REPUBLICANS RESPOND TO YESTERDAY's PASSAGE OF THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT BY ANNOUNCING THEY WILL WRITE THEIR OWN BILL FROM SCRATCH.................

FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER : JESUS TELLS HIS FOLLOWERS TO "EAT MY FLESH...DRINK MY BLOOD...REMAIN IN ME AND I IN YOU.................

THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT REPEAL AND REPLACE OF OBAMACARE WITH ONE VOTE TO SPARE 217-213.................

THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER : PASCHAL PEOPLE LISTEN AND LEARN FROM GOD OUR ETERNAL FATHER WHO INVITES US TO A DISCIPLESHIP OF FAITH HOPE AND LOVE IN CHRIST's RESURRECTION.................

REMEMBERING THE FEELING OF PRESIDING AT MY FIRST MASS AS A PRIEST IN MY NATIVE BAPTISMAL AND CONFIRMATION PARISH OF ST. ROSE IN SOUTH SACRAMENTO AND THE HUNDREDS OF PERSONS WHO WERE THERE.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER : THE FEAST OF JESUS' APOSTLES STS. PHILLIP AND JAMES.................

TWO DOZEN PERSONS JOIN FATHER BEN DELEON AND YOURS TRULY FOR MY 30th ANNIVERSARY CONCELEBRATED MASS OF THANKSGIVING @ ESKATON MONROE LODGE.................

TUESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER : ST. ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA - BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH DEFENDER OF THE FAITH IN OPPOSING ARIANISM.................

WE ARE THE CENTENNIAL ORDINANDS TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE DIOCESE OF SACRAMENTO : REVEREND FATHER TROY DAVID POWERS...REVEREND FATHER EDUINO SILVEIRA...REVEREND FATHER PAUL SCHLOEDER...30 YEARS AGO TODAY - MAY 2, 1987 ....................

AGAIN CALLED TO PRESIDE TODAY AT THE 8 AM MONDAY MASS IN ST. ANTHONY CHURCH IN THE POCKET AND GREENHAVEN AREA.................

MONDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF THE GLORIOUS 50 DAYS OF EASTER : THE FEAST OF ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER.................

SUNDAY MORNING 9:30 AM MASS @ ESKATON MONROE LODGE...APRIL HANDICAPABLES 1:00 PM MASS @ ST, NARY's PARISH IN EAST SACRAMENTO.................

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER : THE ROAD TO EMMAUS AND SOME OF HIS THE DISCIPLES MYSTERIOUS ENCOUNTER AND 'FIRST SUPPEER' WITH THE RISEN JESUS.................

CALLED UPON TO CELEBRATE SATURDAY MORNING MASS IN ANTHONY PARISH CHURCH THE GREENHAVEN /POCKET AREA.................

EXTRA ORDINARY EASTER SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA - VIRGIN AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH.................

HAVING LIFE ABUNDANTLY IN THE RESURRECTED LORD JESUS AND HAVING IT TO THE FULL.................

POPE +FRANCIS' PASTORAL PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT BEGINS.................

DELINEATING BETWEEN THE EARTHLY AND THE HEAVENLY AS AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD'S TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SHARING THE KINGDOM OF ETERNAL LIFE WITH US.................

THE PASCHAL POWER IN SPIRITUALLY WALKING WITH THE RISEN JESUS ON THEE ROAD TO THE ETERNAL EASTER.................

IN ANTIOCH CA FOR THE FUNERAL MEMORIAL MASS CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR WADE WILLIAM HALEY MY SACRAMENTO STATE LAMBDA CHI ALPHA FRATERNITY BROTHER.................

BEING SEEKERS OF THE SACRED TRUTH EXPOUND WHO FOLLOWERS OF THE RISEN CHRIST ARE AS PASCHAL PEOPLE.................

THE ELEVENTH DAY OF THE 50 GLORIOUS DAYS OF EASTER : "GOD SO LOVES THE WORLD" HE GIVES US HIS REDEEMING SON THAT WE MAY BE LIGHT FOR THE TRUTH OF SALVATION.................

LED BY THE SPIRIT TO ARISE THROUGH THE NEW AND EVERLASTING LIFE ATTAINED FOR US BY JESUS THE CHRIST OF SALVATION.................

TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF EASTER : THE FEAST OF ST. MARK THE EVANGELIST.................

PASCHAL PEOPLE ARE NEVER ALONE AS WE ABIDE IN GOD's SPIRIT FOR COMMUNITY.................

MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF EASTER : JESUS ENCOUNTERS SANHEDRIN OFFICIAL NICODEMUS ALLUDING TO BAPTISM BY TELLING THIS PHARISEE OF THE NEED TO BE "BORN FROM ABOVE OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT".................

TAKING RISKS AS EASTER PEOPLE TO HOPE IN THE PASCHAL MYSTERY OF CHRIST BY ENDURING THE HARDSHIPS ACCOMPANYING OUR TRUST IN THE RISEN LORD.................

THE OCTAVE DAY OF EASTER :DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY - THOMAS THE APOSTLE IS FORGIVEN FOR HIS DOUBT AND UNBELIEF BY THE RISEN CHRIST.................

REVERENCING OUR BODIES HOLINESS AS TEMPLES OF GOD's SPIRIT................E

THE SEVENTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE SOLEMNITY OF EASTER : SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES INITIAL UNWILLINGNESS TO BELIEVE CHRIST HAS THE RISEN JESUS REBUKE THEM FOR THEIR UNBELIEF.................

INCREASING THE POWER OF PRAYER IN YOUR LIFE FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND STRENGTH.................

THE SIXTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE SOLEMNITY OF EASTER : THE RESURRECTED JESUS REASSURES THE APOSTLES TO BE FAITHFUL TO BELIEVING IN AND EMBRACING HIS NEWLY RETAINED ETERNAL LIFE.................

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I INVITE MY FAMILY FRIENDS FORMER PARISHIONERS FELLOW BELIEVERS AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOD WHO KNOW ME AND MY MINISTRY TO ATTEND MY 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST MASS OF THANKSGIVING - TUESDAY MAY 2, 2017 @ 11 AM IN ESKATON MONROE LODGE 3225 FREEPORT BLVD. SACRAMENTO 95818.................

THE FIFTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE SOLEMNITY OF EASTER : THE RESURRECTED LORD JESUS IMPARTS HIS DESIRE FOR PEACE UPON THE APOSTLES.................

THE 31st ANNIVERSRY OF ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE TODAY SETS IN MOTION A 13 DAY COUNTDOWN TO MY 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND PPUTTING TOGETHER A MAY 2nd MASS OF THANKSIVING @ EML.................

THE FOURTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE SOLEMNITY OF EASTER : BEING DISCIPLES OF THE RISEN CHRIST WE TAKE OUR OWN SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS.................

LOOKING BEYOND OURSELVES AND OUR COMFORT ZONE SO AS TO ENCOUNTER THE HOPEFULNESS OF THE RESURRECTED LIFE IN JESUS THE CHRIST.................

THE THIRD DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE SOLENITY OF EASTER : MARY MAGDALENE's EASTER MORNING ENCOUNTER OF THE RRISEN JESUS IS ASSURANCE IN LIVING FAITH BELIEVERS IN HIS RESURRECTION WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE.................

JOINED WITH POPE +FRANCIS IN EXPERIENCING EASTER AS A SEASON OF HOPE AS THE SUPREME PONTIFF DESCRIBES THE VIRTUE OF HOPE.................

THE PASCHAL SEASON OF THE RISEN JESUS THE CHRIST : EASTER MONDAY.................

"HE IS RISEN...ALLELUIA ! - EASTER SUNDAY : THE SOLEMNITY OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HUMANKIND's SALVATION.................

EASTER SUNDAY @ ESKATON MONROE WILL HAVE ME PRESIDING AT A COMBINED CATHOLIC MASS OF THE RESURRECTION AND ECUMENICAL INTERFAITH EASTER WORSHIP SERVICE.................

THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM ON THIS HOLY SATURDAY MORNING AND THROUGH THE AFTERNOON : A SOLEMN DAY OF MEDITATION ANTICIPATION REFLECTION AND PREPARATION FOR THE EASTER VIGIL AND THE SONRISE OF THE SAVIOR.................

GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY @ ESKATON MONROE LODGE 1:30 PM : THE PASSION OF CHRIST INTERCESSORY PRAYERS VENERATION OF THE CROSS CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION.................

THE SECOND DAY OF THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM : THE PASSION AND DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST - "SUFFERING SERVANT" FOR OUR SINS "HIGH PRIEST" OF SACRIFICE FOR HUMANKIND THE GREAT "I AM" OF GOD's PEOPLE.................

RITES OF THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM : 1. MASS OF THE LORD's SUPPER AND THE MANDATE OF SERVICE IM JESUS' WASHING OF THE FEET OF HIS DISCIPLES.................

PROXIMATE PREPARATIONS FOR THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM BEGINNING WITH HOLY THIRSDAY.................

AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV BUT NOT YET SCHEDULED TO SEE PRESIDENT PUTIN TODAY ON HIS FIRST VISIT TO RUSSIA AS OUR CHIEF DIPLOMAT.................

WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK : MATTHEW's GOSPEL VERSION OF THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS IS FOCUSED ON THE "THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER" AND THE "APPOINTED TIME OF FULFILLMENT".................

WAYWARD DISCIPLESHIP DURING HOLY WEEK - TWO TREACHERIES TWO TRAJECTORIES IN THE DISLOYALTY OF JUDAS ISCARIOT AND SIMON PETER TOWARDS JESUS.................

TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK : AS THE APEX OF JESUS' PASSION RAPIDLY APPROACHES HE REMAINS IN CHARGE RESPONDING TO THE BETRAYAL OF HIS APOSTLE JUDAS.................

REVEREND FATHER THOMAS DELAHUNTY AGE 86, 62 YEAR PRIEST OF THE SACRAMENTO DIOCESE KILKENNY IRELAND NATIVE ST. KIERAN'S SEMINARY ALUMNUS AND CLASSMATE OF REVEREND FATHER CHARLES BRADY HAS DIED...MAY ETERNAL LIFE SHINE UPON HIM.................

NEWLY CONFIRMED ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT NEIL GORSUCH SWORN IN TWICE THIS MORNING FIRST BY CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS @ THE SCOTUS THEN AGAIN @ THE WHITE HOUSE BY ASSOCIATE JUSTICE KENNEDY.................

ISIS DESECRATES THE SACREDNESS OF PALM SUNDAY IN EGYPT BY BOMBING TWO WORSHIP SERVICES KILLING 43 PERSON WOUNDING 100.................

MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK : THE ANOINTING OF JESUS' FEET BY MARY OF BETHANY PROVIDES FORESIGHT INTO HIS APPROACHING SACRIFICIAL DEATH AND BURIAL.................

MY ESKATON MONROE LODGE CATHOLIC AND CHRISTIAN INTERFAITH WORSHIP SERVICES TODAY - PASSION 'PALM' SUNDAY MASS @ 9:30 AM / PAL, SUNDAY ECUMENICAL VESPERS @ 4 PM.................

PALM SUNDAY OF HOLY WEEK 2017 : THE 'PASSION' NARRATIVE IN MATTHEW's GOSPEL HAS JESUS IN CONTROL OF THE EVENT - HE IS MORE SERVANT THAN VICTIM ACCORDING TO GOD's PLAN FOR HUMANKIND's SALVATION.................

AFTER HIS TWO DAY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT XI OF CHINA PRESIDENT TRUMP REPORTEDLY TOLD HIM IF CHINA WILL NOT HELP RESOVE THE NORTH KOREAN DANGER HE WILL USING AMERICAN MIGHT.................

SATURDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : JESUS' RAISING OF LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD LEADS US TO INTO THE HOLIEST AND MOST SACRED DAYS EVER ENCOUNTERED IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY.................

NEARLY UNIFIED BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP's TOMAHAWK MISSILES DROP ON A SYRIAN AIR BASE LAST NIGHT.................

FRIDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : THE OPPONENTS OF JESUS WHO ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A BLASPHEMER HE COMES FROM GOD THE FATHER ARE OFFSET BY THE MANY MORE PERSONS WHO CAME TO BELIEVE AND FOLLOW AS A RESULT OF THIS DECLARATION HE IS ONE WITH GOD.................

"WORD PON FIRE" EVANGELIZER LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY BISHOP + ROBERT BARRON SPEAKS AT SACEAMENTO CHRISM MASS CONFERENCE.................

CONGRESSMAN DEVIN NUNES STEPS DOWN AS CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN TAMPERING IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION / SENATE DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY FILIBUSTER JUDGE GORSUCH'S SUPREME COURT NOMINATION CAUSING THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO CHANGE THE SENATE RULES TO MAKECONFIRMATION OF A JUSTICE A SIMPLE MAJORITY REQUIRING ONLY 51 VOTES.................

THURSDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : IN THE HISTORY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YAHWEH AND HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE THE OLD COVENANT REPRESENTED BY ABRAHAM AND THE NEW COVENANT ACTUALIZED IN JESUS ARE PIVOTAL OCCURRENCES.................

TRUMP WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST STEVE BANNON REMOVED AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE BY RECOOMMENDATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER GENERAL MCMASTER.................

WEDNESDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : JESUS THE CHRIST TELLS US THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM WHO LOVE HIM ACCEPT HIS HEAVENLY FATHER AS GOD OF THE UNIVERSE.................

THE CONTINUING TRAVESTY OF THE SYRIAN DICTATOR AND VLADIMIR PUTIN's SAVAGE ATTACKS ON THE CITZENS INCLUDING CHILDREN WITH CHEMICAL GASES WHILE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IMPLICITLY SUPPORTS THEE ATROCITIES WITH A BLINK A WINK AND A STINK UNWILLING TO OPPOSE OR OFFEND THE RUSSIANS AND PUTIN.................

TUESDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT :JESUS' APPROACHING PASSION AND DEATH IN JOHN's GOSPEL HAS HIM PROCLAIMING WHEN HE IS LIFTED UP WE WILL KNOW WHO HE IS.................

MONDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : FORGIVENESS OF SINNERS IS THE CORE VALUE OF JESUS' MISSION AND MINISTRY.................

LOVE INSTEAD OF LUST DRIVES LENTEN PEOPLE NOT THE SUPERFICIALITY OF LUV THAT SUPPLANTS ITS AUTHENTICITY.................

LOVING LIKE THE LIVING AND TRUE GOD OF ALL CREATION NECESSITATES OUR COMMITMENT TO PRAYER AND ACTION FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF HUMANKIND IN JUSTICE AND PEACE.................

SUNDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT : JESUS' RAISING PIERCES THE DARKNESS AND GRIEF OF DEATH BY RESUSITATING A VERY DEAD LAZARUS AND COMFORTING THE RAISED MAN's SISTERS MARY AND MARTHA.................

NEVER HAS ANOTHER HUMAN SPOKEN WITH THE POWER OF JESUS' WORDS TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD.................

SATURDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT : THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES OPPOSED JESUS NOT ONLY FOR WHO HE WAS BUT FROM WHERE HE CAME FROM.................

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.................

CNN's INSTANT POLL FINDS WATCHERS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP's CONGRESSIONAL JOINT SESSION NATIONAL SPEECH TONIGHT RESPOND 78% POSITIVE 21% NEGATIVE .................

PROPOSING TO SLASH AND SHIFT $54 BILLION FROM AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AND DEVELOPMENT IS OPPOSED BY 120 RETIRED U.S. MILITARY LEADERS...........

PRESIDENT TRUMP SCHEDULED TO MAKE HIS FIRST ADDRESS BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS TONIGHT AT 9 PM EASTERN 6 PM PACIFIC TIME.................

ON THE THRESHOLD OF LENT HOW ARE WE OFFERING TO GOD ACTS OF CHARITY FOR THE FAITHTFUL THAT GATHER GOD's PEOPLE TO ENDURE THE CHALLENGES AND ULTIMATELY ENJOY THE REWARDS OF DISCIPLESHIP ?..................

DISCIPLESHIP AND WEALTH - THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JESUS CHRIST AND THE RICH MAN TEACHES US IT IS ESSENTIAL TO BE HONEST AND DEVOUT.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP PREPARED TO PROPOSE A FEDERAL BUDGET WITH A 10% $54 BILLION INCREASE IN DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY WITH STEEP CUTS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND FOREIGN AID.................

A PIVOTAL MAJOR MISTAKE AT THE CULMINATION OF SUNDAY NIGHT's OSCARS WHEN A WRONG ENVELOPE IS OPENED AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT "LA LA LAND" IS BEST PICTURE WHEN THEE ACTUAL WINNER IS "MOONLIGHT".................

THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY TRUMP HOST ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE RITUAL FOR THEIR FIRST TIME TONIGHT-- THE ANNUAL DINNER FOR THE GOVERNORS OF THE 50 STATES AND THEIR SPOUSES.................

THE EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE PREMEIRE VIRTUES OF CATHOLIC-CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP- TRUST OF GOD...TRUST IN GOD.................

AFTER BANNING ENTRY TO THE NEW YORK TIMES CNN LOS ANGELES TIMES AND POLITICO TO FRIDAY's WHITE HOUSE PRESS GAGGLE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED TODAY HE WILL NOT ATTEND THIS YEAR's WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER...AN EVENT DATING BACK TO THE KENNEDY PRESIDENCY.................

THE INSIGHTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE ARE INCULCATED INTO OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AS GOD's INTENTION FROM THE INCEPTION OF CREATION FOR THE MUTUALITY OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS.................

MY FATHER TROY DOIL POWERS 95th BIRTHDATE ANNIVERSARY FEBRUARY 25,1922 - MARCH 5, 2006...ETERNAL REST AND PEACE.................

STEVEN BANNON WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL DIRECTOR SPEAKS AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE CONVENTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP FOCUSING ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AS HIS AND POTUS 45's PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNING THE USA.................

HUMANKIND's CONVERSION AND UNDERSTANDING OF HEAVENLY TEACHING INCLUDES THE PERFORMANCE OF GOOD WORKS AS PEOPLE OF GOD.................

CONTENTIOUS CONGRESSIONAL TOWN HALL MEETINGS ACROSS THE COUNTRY CALLED FAKE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AS CITIZENS EXPRESS ANXIETY OVER HIS AND REPUBLICAN POLICY PROPOSALS.................

"NOT MY PRESIDENT"PROTESTS HELD IN SEVERAL AMERICAN CITIES ON PRESIDENTS' DAY.................

THE LITURGICAL COUNTDOWN TO LENT IS PAVED WITH SACRED SCRIPTURE FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH.................

THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION 500th ANNIVERSARY : DIETRICH BONHOEFFER LED CHRISTIANS AGAINST NAZIS AND THE CONFESSING CHURCH DURING WORLD WAR II THEN AND THE RISE OF NEO NATIONALIST NAZIS NOW AS IN STEVE BANNON PRESIDENT TRU,P's WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL DIRECTOR.................

A 'DRUNK DRIVER' PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AS THE ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ?.................

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES BOOK OF LEVITICUS AND THE HOLINESS CODE.................

RETIRED GENERAL AND C.I.A. DIRECTOR DAVID PETRAEUS TAKES HIMSELF OUT OF CONSIDERATION ASTHE REPLACEMENT TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.................

MARK THE EVANGELIST's GOSPEL ACCOUNT OFJESUS' TRANSFIGURATION GIVES IT AN HISTORICAL AND ESCATHOLOGICAL CONTEXT IN THEEW REDEMPTION OF HUMANKIND.................

PARTICIPATING IN THE SALVIFIC MISSION OF JESUS CHRIST INVOLVES TAKING UP OUR SHARE OF THE CROSS OF REDEMPTION.................

POTUS 45 TRUMP's HASTILY CALLED FIRST NEWS CONFERENCE BECOMES A 77 MINUTE MYSTERIOUS MESH OF SELF ABSORBED RATIONALZATION AND MEDIA BASHING.................

ANDREW PUDZER WITHDRAWS HIS NOMINATION AS TRUMP SECRETARY OF LABOR IN THE WAKE OF 4 REPUBLICAN SENATORS READINESS TO VOTE AGAINST HIS CONFIRMATION THUS DEFEATING HIM.................

AFTER JUST 25 DAYS THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY SHOWS ITSELF TO BE DRIVEN BY EGOTISM AND NEPOTISM NOT THE GREATNESS AND COMMON GOOD OF AMERICANS AND THE WORLD.................

JESUS' PUBLIC MINISTRY HEALING OF THE BLIND MAN AND THE DEAF MAN UNDERSCORES GOD's INTENTION THAT WE ARREST OUR IMPAAIRMENTS.................

STEVE MINUCHIN CONFIRMED AS PRESIDENT TRUMP's SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY BY A SENATE VOTE OF 53-46...AVID SCHUTTKEN CONFIRMED TO CONTINUE AS VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY 99-0.................

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN RESIGNS 24 DAYS INTO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AS CONTROVERSY OVER HIS DISHONESTY REGARDING WHAT HE DISCUSSED WITH WITH THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN DECEMBER CONTINUES TO RAMP UP.................

EMPOWERED BY GOD's SPIRIT TEAMED WITH CONSCIENCE COMMITMENT AND COMMUNITY TO ADVOCATING AND ADVANCING THE DISABLED AND SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY WITHIN AND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF GOD.................

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU VISITING WASHINGTON D.C TODAY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP THEIR DIFFERENCES - 2 MEN 2 GENERATIONS 2 WORLDVIEWS 1 CONTINENT.................

UPDATE THE GALLUP POLL - PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH AN APPROVAL RATING OF 45% UNDER WATER BY TEN POINTS ONLY 3 WEEKS INTO HIS ADMINISTRATION THE WORST PRESIDENTIAL START IN POLLING HISTORY.................

THE FEBRUARY HANDICAPABLES MASS AND LUNCHEON TODAY @ NOON IN ST. FRANCIS ASSISI PARISH IN MIDTOWN SACRAMENTO.................

JESUS DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN SLAVERY TO THE LETTER OF THE LAW AND HE EFFICACY OF EXUDING THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW AMONG THE PEOPLE OF GOD.................

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FED BY THE GENEROUS AND CARING HANDS OF GOD.................

MONSIGNOR KAVANAGH's 92nd BIRTHDAY THE MEMORIAL MASS FOR ROSEMARY ATHA AND CATHEDRAL MASS FOR WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE SICK.................

THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST UNLIMITEDLY AND COMPASSIONATELY REACHES OUT TO ALL HUMANKIND.................

WHITE HOUSE COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT KELLYANNE CONWAY CROSSES THE LINE OF FEDERAL ETHICS RESTRICTIONS BY ASKING VIEWERS ON FOX AND FRIENDS TO PURCHASE IVANKA TRUMP MERCHANDISE SETTING OFF A BI-PARTISAN FIRESTORM.................

THE 9th CIRCUIT APPELLATE COURT PANEL DECIIDES THE STAY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP's TRAVEL BAN WILL REMAIN FOR NOW IN A 3-0 DECISION THE RESTRAINING ORRDER ON THE EXECUTIVE ORDER STANDS.................

MOVING BEYOND THE LIMITATIONS IMPOSED UNJUSTLY ON CULTURE AND RELIGION IN TANDEM WITH JESUS CHRIST WHO HAS NO BOUNDARIES ON THE JUSTICE AND LOVE THE LORD OF CREATION IMPARTS.................

ALABAMA U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS CONFIRMED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BY A 52-47 VOTE OF THE SENATE.................

DEMOCRATIC MASSACHUSETTS U.S. SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN WARNED AND SILENCED ON THEE SENATE FLOOR BY MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL AND OTHER REPUBLICAN SENATORS FOR SAID TO BE MALIGNING COLLEAGUE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS DOING SO BY INVOKING RARELY USED RULE 19.................

THE UNITED STATES SENATE CONFIRMS BETSY DEVOS AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SECRETARY OF EDUCATION BY THE NARROWEST OF MARGINS 51-50 WITH VICE PRESIDENT TRUMP BREAKING THE TIE THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY A CABINENT SECRETARY HAS BEEN APPROVED IN THIS WAY.................

THE 9th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMMINENT DECISION AS TO WHETHER LIFT THE TEMPORARY STAY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP's IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER TRAVEL BAN OR LET IT STAND.................

THE GOSPEL LESSON ABOUT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN MUNUTIAE AND THE SUPERIORITY OF GOD's LAW OF LOVE.................

THE COSMIC AND DIVINE NATURES OF CREATION FORTIFY OUR FAITH IN GOD's HEALING AND SUPERNATURAL POWER.................

THE FAIRNESS IMPARTIALITY AND JUSTICE OF GOD FOR ALL CREATION.................

THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - LIVING THE TWO-FOLD EXPECTATIONS OF COVENANT PEOPLE : FIDELITY TO GOD AND CARING FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF HUMANKIND.................

A BIBLICAL EXHORTATION TO THE FAITHFUL : OFFER GOD DAILY A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP's IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER TRAVEL BAN STRUCK DOWN BY A FEDERAL JUDGE IN WASHINGTON STATE .................

THE CNN-ORC POLL RELEASED NOW SHOWS AMERICANS FEELING ABOUT PRESIDENT IS 44% APPROVAL 53% DISAPPROVAL.................

2 WEEKS AS POTUS 45 - HOW WELL IS PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP DOING IN CONSTRUCTIVE AND CONSENSUS BUIILDNG GOVERNANCE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR NATION AND THE WORLD ?................

WIDENING AND SPREADING THE FAME AND THE NAME OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

CANDLEMAS DAY - THE BLESSING OF THE LITURGICAL SACRAMENTALS THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH USES TO SIGNIFY THE LIGHT OF BEING IN THE SACRED PRESENCE OF GOD.................

THE CHILD JESUS' PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE BY MARY AND JOSEPH AND SIMEON AND ANNA's PROPHETIC RESPONES PROMPTS US ASPEOPLE OF GOD TO FAITHFULLY WITNESS TO THE LORD OUR GOD.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS A CONFLICTED DISJOINTED DUALISTIC ADDRESS OF FAITH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BUT ALSO TOUGH TALK ON ISIS AND AND A FAILED JOKE ABOUT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER's TV RATINGS AT THE ANNUAL NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST.................

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY IS DEDICATED TO THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.................

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.................