Did You Know? The poem “Casey at the Bat” was published June 3, 1888 in the San Francisco Examiner. The author was Ernest Thayer, though since he published it under a pen name, there was originally confusion about this. It’s a highly entertaining poem. So much so that even I, a non-sports fan, can quote parts of it. LEARN MORE.
Month: June 2012
Question About “The Church Year”
For about half a year I’ve been running a daily feature on “The Church Year” as part of JimmyAkin.com, which offers information and links about the current liturgical day in the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Latin rite.
I’m thinking about splitting this off into it’s own site, with its own web address.
If you like getting this feature by email or RSS, those options would still be available. It would just come under its own banner rather than JimmyAkin.com.
So I wanted to get reader feedback on this subject.
Please take a moment to use the poll below to let me know your thoughts.
NOTE: You don’t have to be a fan of “The Church Year” to vote. I’m trying to get a sense of what readers in general would like, Church Year fans and non-fans included.
Thanks much!
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God’s Infinite Mercy
At some point in their lives, virtually everyone has wondered whether they can be forgiven for what they’ve done. The good news is, they can!
But sometimes the doubts linger, particularly for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and particularly in connection with certain passages in the Bible, such as some in the book of Hebrews that deal with the subject of apostasy–the complete rejection of the Christian faith.
Passages like these:
Hebrews 6:4-6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Hebrews 10:26
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left.
Can an apostate be forgiven? If you’ve knowingly and deliberately rejected Christ, will he take you back? And what is the real meaning of those passages in Hebrews?
In this episode I respond to a gentleman who is struggling with these very issues.
I demonstrate that the Hebrews passages do not mean what the gentleman fears and reveal, instead, the infinite mercy of God.
The good news is: No matter what you’ve done, if you are willing to come back to God, God is eager to take you back. He loves you, and your sins are not greater than his love.
I’m also preparing a special mailing for the Secret Information Club where I “interview” Blessed John Paul II on heaven.
If you’d like to read what John Paul II says about heaven and how we can get there by God’s mercy, you should sign up for the Secret Information Club by Friday, June 8th, and you’ll have it in your email inbox Saturday morning.
You should sign up here (and if you have any trouble, just email me at jimmy@secretinfoclub.com):
Now here’s the show! Just click “Play” to listen!
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The Church Year: June 2, 2012
Today is Saturday of the 8th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, the liturgical color for today is red.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is Ember Saturday.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 2, in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St.s Marcellinus and Peter, martyred at Rome who died in A.D. 302. It is an optional memorial.
In both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Erasmus, bishop and martyr, who died in A.D 303. It is a commemoration.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s Marcellinus and Peter, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Peter, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Marcellinus, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Erasmus, you can click here.
For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
Readings:
To see today’s readings in the Ordinary Form, you can click here.
Or you can click play to listen to them:
Devotional Information:
Tomorrow is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:
158. Worship, as has been said in the first part of this Directory, is the dialogue of God with man through Christ in the Holy Spirit. A Trinitarian orientation is therefore an essential element in popular piety. It should be clear to the faithful that all pious exercises in honor of the Blessed Virgin May, and of the Angels and Saints have the Father as their final end, from Whom all thing come and to Whom all things return; the incarnate, dead and resurrected Son is the only mediator (1Tim 2,5) apart from whom access to the Father is impossible (cf. John 14,6); the Holy Spirit is the only source of grace and sanctification. It is important to avoid any concept of “divinity” which is abstract from the three Divine Persons.
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