Weekday in Ordinary Time Feast of Saint Martin de Porres Religious and Mystic FRIDAY volume 11, no. 220 November 3, 2000 For best alignment of this page, set font size to smallest in your browser. MS Explorer works best. While waiting for page to load, we invite you to say as many Hail Mary's as necessary. For articles in various sections, click the section of your choice below "D" Day is 4 days away. We urge you to put your vote where your heart is and vote for life! See CATHOLIC PewPOINT For those still struggling with who would be best for America, we invite you to read George W. Bush's personal testimony to Christ at My Conversion of Heart. Sadly, Al Gore couldn't be bothered to provide his Christian witness. FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE OF THE DailyCATHOLIC CATHOLIC PewPOINT commentary Sr. Lucy's GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER column DAILY LITURGY This DAY in CHURCH HISTORY November 3, 2000 issue November 4, 2000 issue November 5, 2000 issue November 6, 2000 issue November 7, 2000 issue November 8, 2000 issue November 9, 2000 issue Monthly Medjugorje Message TOP 100 CATHOLICS: 1-50 TOP 100 CATHOLICS: 51-100 ARCHIVES FOR 1997 to 2000 issues HOMEPORT Entry Page

A holy and wise man in every sense of the word is fondly remembered as the meek and humble Good Shepherd of Omaha

In her column this week, Sister Mary Lucy Astuto affectionately remembers a good bishop, her own shepherd Archbishop Daniel E. Sheehan who passed away October 24th with a brain tumor. He faithfully served Sister's diocese from August 8, 1969, when Pope Paul VI appointed him the seventh bishop of the great plains See, until his retirement on May 4, 1993, when Pope John Paul II selected Archbishop Elden Curtiss to succeed him. She shares her personal experiences with this man who some critics claimed was too meek and mild. Yet he lived the Beatitudes and for his dedication and fidelity, he can be numbered among those Christ spoke of in Matthew 5: 4, 7-8 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth...Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God." For her column, entitled A Gentle Shepherd see GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER

PRAY! PRAY! PRAY! Today is Day 6 of the Countdown Novena to the Election! Your prayers are vital! We recommend at least a decade a day and a Chaplet of Divine Mercy. If you can say a Rosary a day in hopes of a miracle that America can return to God through this election, that's even better! It's between you and God. Remember, nothing is impossible with Him! 4 DAYS to Defend Life and pray that there will be No more Blood and Gore!!    We encourage you to go to the Pro-Life links below to keep up to date on the great battle between life and death - the Sanctity of Life vs. the culture of death led by pro-abort candidates and those who would advance immorality, sodomy, perjury, etc. We refer you to our HOMEPORT ENTRY PAGE where you will find a typograph of a chalice, a chalice overflowing with the innocent blood of the aborted babies nearing 40 to 50 million. Enough is enough! The story and our purpose is outlined in this typograph and for more information and why we will not give up, see DEFEND LIFE Pray and urge others to VOTE FOR LIFE! Also we recommend the following excellent sites whose main purpose is the Sanctity of Life Pro-Life Infonet and Priests For Life and People of Life and Human Life International and American Life League and National Right to Life and Oblates of Mary Immaculate Life Issues

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FRIDAY'S LITURGY:		First Reading: Philippians 1: 1-11 Psalms: Psalm 111: 1-6 Gospel Reading: Luke 14: 1-6

Feast of Saint Martin de Porres, Religious and Mystic    Lord, You led Martin de Porres by a life of humility to eternal glory. May we follow his example and be exalted with him in the kingdom of Heaven. For today's Feast of Saint Martin de Porres and tomorrow's liturgy for the Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo, see DAILY LITURGY

The DAILY WORD Taken from the Gospel for Friday's Mass "And Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, 'Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?' But they remained silent. And He took and healed him and let him go. Then addressing them, He said, 'Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him up on the Sabbath?' And they could give Him no answer to these things." Luke 14: 3-6

Events that happened Today in Church History St. Malachy predicted all the Popes from Celestine II   To  To    Today is the 852nd anniversary of the death of Saint Malachy. While Saint Patrick is known as the saint of Ireland, St. Malachy is one of the greatest of Irish saints. As the Archbishop of Armagh and Down he established unification of the Irish clergy and performed countless miracles. He was a good friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux whose order he wanted to join as a contemplative monk, but Pope Innocent II would not release him from his See since he was so integral to the growth of the Faith in Ireland. It was to this same Pontiff that St. Malachy presented his famous "Prophecies of the Popes" revelation in which each Roman Pontiff from Celestine II to our present Holy Father was foretold in this special, yet controversial prophecy. Though he is remembered for his prophetic visions, it is his obedience and devotion to converting souls that he should be remembered for. He was canonized by Pope Innocent III in 1190. It was the first formal canonization by a Pope of an Irish saint. For other time capsule events that happened Today in Church history, see MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES Blessed are the merciful!    They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the words of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen have been known to launch a thousand images in one's mind, one of the ways this late luminary did so much to evangelize the faith. Because of the urgency of the times and because few there are today who possess the wisdom, simplicity and insight than the late Archbishop who touched millions, we are bringing you daily gems from his writings. The good bishop makes it so simple that we have dubbed this daily series: "SIMPLY SHEEN". "Humility as it relates to others is a golden mean between blind reverence on the one hand and an overbearing insolence on the other. Humble people are not rigid exacters of things to which they have no undoubted right; they are always ready to overlook faults of others knowing that they have so many themselves. Neither are they greatly provoked at those slights which put vain persons out of patience, knowing that as we show mercy to others so shall we receive mercy from God."

Monthly Medjugorje Message for October 2000 NOTE: We respectfully recognize and accept the final authority regarding apparitions, locutions and prophecies presently being reported around the world rests with the Holy See of Rome and the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church to whose judjment we humbly and obediently submit. For Our Lady' October Message and more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE

		1 FRIDAY     no. 220 November 3 Weekday/ St. Martin de Porres	2 SATURDAY     no. 221 November 4 Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo	3 SUNDAY     no. 222 November 5 31st SUNDAY in Ordinary Time

4 MONDAY     no. 223 November 6 Weekday in Ordinary Time		5 TUESDAY     no. 224 November 7 Weekday in Ordinary Time	6 WEDNESDAY   no. 225 November 8 Weekday in Ordinary Time	7 THURSDAY     no. 226 November 9 Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

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