Tag: Love
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Hoy es la fiesta de San Valentín, patrono de los enamorados
Por aciprensa/14 February 2020 Cada 14 de febrero se recuerda a San Valentín, patrono de los enamorados. Según la tradición, durante la persecución a los cristianos en los primeros siglos el santo ponía en riesgo su vida para unir a las parejas en matrimonio. Todos los santos se caracterizan por haber llevado su amor a…
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Homilía del domingo 09 de febrero de 2020
Deja que tu luz brille Isaías 58: 7-10, Salmo 111: 4-9, 1 Corintios 2: 1-5, Mateo 5: 13-16 Casi al mismo tiempo que Isaías estaba reviviendo una fe viva entre la gente en Jerusalén, su contemporáneo en el norte de Israel, el profeta Amós, estaba expresando su feroz indignación por la difícil situación de los…
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A Day with Saint Valentine of Rome: Patron of young couples
Introduction: Who is Saint Valentine? Saint Valentine of Rome was a priest in the Roman Empire who ministered to Christians, who were persecuted there. He was martyred and buried at a Christian cemetery on the Via Flaminia close to the Ponte Milvio to the north of Rome, on February 14, which has been observed…
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…WHAT MY GRANDPARENTS TAUGHT ME!
Sometimes I doubt if I do have as much Faith as half the portion of my grandparents now gone before us marked with the indelible sign of faith. I may not be alone in this thinking. Theirs was not a sophisticated age as ours; there was little or no electricity, there were no mobile phones…
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YOU TOO CAN BE A SAINT … WE ARE ALL CALLED TO HOLINESS!
The first day of November every year, the universal Church celebrates the feast day of all the Saints both known and unknown. The Book of Revelation describes these people in a figurative language thus: “After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and…
Fr. Valentine Umoh 