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The Threefold Cord: A Reflection for Lent
A threefold cord is not easily broken, says Qoheleth, the sage (Eccl 4:12). The Lord thus wisely gives us a threefold program for our Lenten journey: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
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Merry Christmas from the Saint John Paul II Society!
On December 25, 1978, Pope Saint John Paul the Great addressed the world with these words: This message is addressed to every human being, precisely as a human being; it is addressed to his humanity.
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Advent Prayer for Lapsed Catholics
Christmas is a joyful celebration, yet this year, as Catholic families fill churches at midnight Mass eager to welcome the newborn King, many will note with sadness those children, parents, spouses, or siblings who are...
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Thoughts on Father Thomas McGlynn, O.P.
The Saint John Paul II Society was honored to have Paul and Rebecca O’Herron with us on at the 100th Anniversary Miracle of the Sun vigil Mass on October 12. Paul prepared the following remarks...
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Catholic New York: Fatima Devotees Venerate Relics at St. Vincent Ferrer
Fatima Devotees Venerate Relics at St. Vincent Ferrer By Christie L. Chicoine Madeleine Monier, 10, and her brother Charles, 8, venerated a relic of St. Jacinta Marto—the Church’s youngest, non-martyred saint—at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in...
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Fatima Vigil Mass and Holy Hour
On October 11, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan, The Saint John Paul II Society celebrated a special Holy Hour together with the Frassati Fellowship of NYC in anticipation of the 100th...
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Reflection and Homily by Msgr. Slawomir Oder
The St. John Paul II Society was honored to have Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator of St. John Paul II’s cause for canonization, deliver a reflection and homily at our Oct 11 Holy Hour and Oct...
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Mysteries of Light: Pope John Paul II on the Luminous Mysteries
Mysteries of Light: Pope John Paul II on the Luminous Mysteries All throughout his long and storied pontificate, Pope Saint John Paul II had an enormous devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Most Holy Rosary....
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Thomism of the Body: St. John Paul II’s Thomistic Anthropology of Marriage & Sexuality
Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P. spoke at Duke University on St. Thomas Aquinas’ anthropology of marriage and sexuality, and how it served as the foundation for St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. You can listen...