Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The #GospelOfTheDay questions the way of living a Christian life, which is not made up of dreams or beautiful aspirations, but of concrete commitments, to open ourselves ever more to God’s will and to love for our brothers and sisters.

Pope Francis

Quotes, Questions and Today’s Scriptures

This is my third such nomination after Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh.  And it is a very proud moment indeed.

President Trump

has president trump now fulfilled the purpose for which GOD allowed him to become our president?

Thus says the LORD:

You say, “The LORD’s way is not fair!”

Hear now, house of Israel:

Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?

EZ 18:25

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, has said he hopes to hold a final confirmation vote by the end of October, just days before the election.

Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court nominee

now that GOD has worked through president trump to bring about a good, am i’m obligated to vote for trump in november?

R.  Remember your mercies, O Lord.

Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;

teach me your paths,

PS 25:6A, 4

If Barrett is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice she would be the sixth Catholic justice, joining Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor. 

Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court nominee

does this demonstrate, as president trump stated, that he’s the “best [president] in the history of the Catholic Church”?

Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory;

rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,

PHIL 2:3

In a 2013 speech at University of Notre Dame, she [Barrett] said if Roe were overturned, “abortion would be neither legal nor illegal throughout the United States. 

Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court nominee

as a republican do i wear my anti-abortion stance as cloak of self-righteousness or as a sack-cloth of repentance for the evil done by my party in supporting Roe v. Wade in 1973 by citing abortion rights as included within our ideology of limited government and personal freedom?

When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. 

MT 21:32A