Luis Gonzalez
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November 24, 2025 – Faith in Adversity in Today’s Mass Readings
Today’s readings hit right where comfort and faith collide. First Reading: Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 Daniel and his friends get pulled into Babylon’s luxury and pressure but quietly refuse to defile themselves with the king’s food. Their hidden faithfulness in “small”… Continue reading
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November 23rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Columban
He left comfort behind, walked away from temptation, and set half of Europe on fire for Christ. 🔥 Saint Columban was that Irish monk who called out corrupt kings, rebuilt ruins into monasteries, multiplied food for his brothers, and helped… Continue reading
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November 23rd – Saint of the Day: Pope Saint Clement I, Martyr
Pope Saint Clement I was not a distant, dusty name in a history book. He literally lived in the shadow of the Apostles, wrote one of the earliest Christian letters outside The New Testament, and stepped in when the Church… Continue reading
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November 23, 2025 – The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
The Church year does not fade out. It ends with a crown. 👑 Today’s solemnity shouts a truth the world keeps trying to mute: Jesus is not just a comforting idea. He is King of the Universe. 🌍 In 1925,… Continue reading
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November 23, 2025 – Christ the King in Today’s Mass Readings
The King’s throne is not made of gold. It is a Cross. 👑✝️ In 2 Samuel 5:1-3, Israel comes to David and says “we are your bone and your flesh” and anoints him king. This points straight to Christ, the… Continue reading
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November 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Philemon of Colossae
Philemon was a wealthy house-church leader who got a letter from Saint Paul that completely rewired how he saw power, forgiveness, and human dignity. 📜🏛️ In The Letter to Philemon, Paul asks him to welcome his runaway slave Onesimus “no… Continue reading
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November 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Cecilia, Virgin & Martyr
She was a Roman noblewoman, a consecrated virgin, a fearless evangelizer, and her body was found incorrupt centuries after her martyrdom. 🎵🔥 Saint Cecilia literally turned her house into a church, converted her husband and his brother, faced a secret… Continue reading
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November 22, 2025 – Singing in the Dark in Today’s Mass Readings
Ever wonder if God really notices when the wicked win and the faithful get crushed? ⚔️🔥 In 1 Maccabees 6:1-13, the mighty King Antiochus, who desecrated the Temple and tried to erase God’s people, ends up sick, broken, and confessing… Continue reading
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November 21st – Saint of the Day: Saint Albert of Louvain, Bishop & Martyr
Meet the bishop corrupt nobles could not buy. 🛡️✝️ Saint Albert of Louvain was canonically elected Bishop of Liège in 1191, consecrated in Reims in 1192, and stood firm when power brokers tried to hijack the Church. He chose obedience… Continue reading
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November 21st – Saint of the Day: Pope Saint Gelasius I
Meet the pope who told an emperor the truth and shut down Rome’s last pagan street party. 🏛️🔥 Pope Saint Gelasius I (492–496) drew a bold line with “two powers” — the sacred authority of priests and the royal power… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 