DAILY CATHOLIC for November 5, 2000
31st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
JUBILEE OF POLITICANS - November 3-5

    TO ALL PASTORS: PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR FLOCKS TO VOTE FOR LIFE!

SUNDAY
volume 11, no. 222
November 5, 2000

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  • "D" Day is two 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.

    • Pope John Paul II exhorts all to stay the course here on our earthly journey with our hearts held high, always focused toward our final objective of joining the Father in His Heavenly Mansion.
      "In My Father's House there are many mansions. Were it not so, I should have told you, because I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again, and I will take you to Myself; that where I am, there you also may be. And where I go you know, and the way you know."
      (John 14: 2-4)

          This past Wednesday, in lieu of his normal Wednesday Papal Audience, His Holiness John Paul II gave an Angelus Address in honor of the Solemnity of All Saints, a Holy Day of Obligation throughout the universal Church. The Pope celebrated Holy Mass before a packed faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square and then delivered his Angelus, focusing on the importance of All Saints Day and the succeeding All Souls Day and the Blessed Virgin Mary's integral role in bringing us all closer to sanctity by leading us to her Divine Son and cited the 50th Anniversary of the glorious proclamation by Pope Pius XII of the Dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. He emphasized the importance of each to strive to emulate the saints during our journey here on earth, keeping always in sight our Heavenly goal where we can be transformed into true saints because of our holy effort in this life. For the Holy Father's Wednesday Angeles Address, see THE VICAR OF CHRIST SPEAKS


    PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!
      Today is Day 8 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!
    2 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



    SUNDAY'S LITURGY:

      First Reading: Deuteronomy 6: 2-6
      Psalms: Psalm 18: 1-4, 47, 51
      Second Reading: Hebrews 7: 23-28
      Gospel Reading: Mark 12: 28-34
      For today's 31st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME and tomorrow's liturgy, see DAILY LITURGY
    The DAILY WORD
    Taken from the Gospel for Sunday's Mass

    "The first commandmant of all is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one God; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength.' This is the first commandment. And the second is like it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

    Mark 12: 29-31


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    Events that happened Today in Church History

    Pope Pius XIIHungarySoviet tanks invade Hungary in 1956Former Soviet Union    Today is the 44th anniversary of the release of the encyclical Datis nuperrime by Pope Pius XII in response to the ruthless invasion by the Soviet Army into Hungary where tanks rode right into the heart of Budapest in a takeover that breached all trust in Eastern Europe. His strong stance in his 36th encyclical gives consistent evidence that the 260th successor of Peter always stood firm against tyranny, including helping Jews and other victims during World War II, something he has been accused of not doing by those who have little credence but get all the publicity. Sadly these muckrakers of the good Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli have delayed his inevitable beatification because of their accusations which have been disproven time and again by Jewish historians and rabbis as well as Catholic scholars, the archives and secular sources as well. To read more of what happened today in Church History, see MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES

    Famous quotes of Bishop Fulton J. SheenToo many politicians can't be trusted because they lack humility

       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".

      "Our modern world has produced a generation of rich politicians who talk love of the poor, but never prove it in action, and a brood of the poor whose hearts are filled with envy for the rich and covetousness of their money. The rich who are humble help rather than use the poor to pave their way to power."
    The Gospa's message for October 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's message for October and more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE
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