Podcasts about Sixtus

2025. május 12., hétfő 8-9 óra ADÓVILÁG 1: Erős HDI és GDP növekedésű országok: Kína Sok kockázat övezi a kínai gazdaságot, de változatlanul gyorsan növekszik, idénre is 4 százalékos GDP-bővülés várható. Kína máris megkezdte az amerikai vámok kijátszását - Portfolio.hu Gerendy Zoltán, a BDO Magyarország ügyvezetője, adótanácsadó partnere ADÓVILÁG 2: Erős HDI és GDP növekedésű országok: Kína Trump április elején bevezette a brutális vámokat, majd egy hét után visszavonulót fújt és lényegében Kínára korlátozta a kereskedelmi háború nagy részét. Most ebből is kihátrál, folyamatosan jönnek a hírek a közelgő megállapodásról Kínával. Közben a kínai elnök volt a díszvendég Moszkvában, a győzelem napi nagy felvonuláson. Merre tart az orosz-kínai viszony? Trump szerint újraindultak az amerikai-kínai kapcsolatok a genfi találkozó után | hvg.hu Feledy Botond, külpolitikai szakértő ARANYKÖPÉS: “Ha minden szabályt betartasz, minden jóból kimaradsz.” 1907 – Katharine Hepburn négyszeres Oscar-díjas amerikai filmszínésznő († 2003) HABEMUS PAPAM: Mi történt a Sixtus-kápolna zárt ajtaja mögött? Összeesküvések alapját képezheti, hogy JD Vance találkozott Pietro Parolin bíborossal még húsvét vasárnap előtt, mielőtt meglátogatta volna Ferenc pápát. Vance hivatala szerint az alelnök és a bíboros "megvitatták közös vallási hitüket, az Egyesült Államok katolicizmusát, az üldözött keresztény közösségek helyzetét szerte a világon, és Trump elnök elkötelezettségét a világbéke helyreállítása mellett". Parolin, a Vatikán második számú bíborosa, aki jó esélyekkel indult a konklávén. Ha sikerül neki, akkor közel 50 év után az első olasz pápa lehetett lett volna. Források szerint csütörtök ebédidőig Parolin bíboros vezetett, nagyjából 45-55 szavazattal, ez azonban elmaradt a kétharmados többséghez szükséges 89 szavazattól. Az első három forduló után Parolin visszalépett a versenyből, és helyette Robert Francis Prevost bíborost támogatta, akit végül meg is választottak pápának XIV. Leó néven. Ujjong Amerika az új pápa láttán, de van, aki máris páros lábbal szállt bele XIV. Leóba - Portfolio.hu Feledy Botond, külpolitikai szakértő

2 - Csütörtök délután felszállt a fehér füst a Sixtus-kápolna kéményéből - vonalban Érszegi Márk Aurél Vatikán-szakértő by Balázsék

00:00: - 6 óra 30:25 - Csütörtök délután felszállt a fehér füst a Sixtus-kápolna kéményéből - vonalban Érszegi Márk Aurél Vatikán-szakértő 49:06 - Arra ébredt egy nő az éjszaka közepén, hogy egy pár szeretkezik az autóján 1:23:41 - Botrányba fulladt David Beckham születésnapi partija 1:38:22 - A pápaválasztó kéménynél pózoló sirályokat lesi mindenki, amíg nincs füst

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10 édes és sós finomság leveles tésztából, ami az ünnepi asztalon is megállja a helyét Mindmegette     2024-12-02 19:04:00     Recept Karácsony A leveles tészta nemcsak a hétköznapokon nagy segítség, hanem az ünnepi készülődést is megkönnyíti. Mutatunk most édes és sós harapnivalókat, amiket a családi ebéden vagy vacsorán is bátran felszolgálhatsz, és nem kell velük sokat pepecselned. Galambos Lajcsi focistától szerette el élete szerelmét Habostorta     2024-12-03 06:33:00     Bulvár Párkapcsolat Lagzi Lajcsi Szomorú hírt kaptunk: meghalt Galambos Lajos volt felesége, Boglárka, aki évek óta betegeskedett. A trombitás 2021 őszén jelentette be, úgy határoztak, Konklávé : Sixtus-kápolna háború Mafab     2024-12-03 04:50:02     Film háború Olaszország Róma Pápaválasztás A Pápa halott. Lawrence bíborosnak össze kell hívnia a Konklávét, egy zárt ajtók mögött zajló szavazást, hogy megválasszák az új Szentatyát. Az összes bíborost Rómába rendelik, hogy a Sixtus-kápolnában érzelmes eszmecserékkel megvitassák, ki lesz a legalkalmasabb az egyház vezetésére. Ebben a szokatlan, zárt drámában az egyházi személyeket egy reme Az Árulók házaspárja lebukott a gyilkosok előtt? rtl.hu     2024-12-02 21:25:00     Film Az Árulók szereplőinek fákjalánggal kellett jelezniük, hogy melyik az a játékostársuk, akiben teljesen megbíznak. Az egyik gyilkos Szekeres Szilviát jelölte meg legfőbb bizalmasának, annak ellenére, hogy úgy sejti, Szilvi és Ferenc mindenkit megvezetnek a kastélyban. Vecsei H. Miklós, a meglehetősen mohó – színészportré Tudás.hu     2024-12-03 05:25:41     Színpad Színház Vecsei H. Miklós, becenevén Hasi, művészeti mindenevő, színész, író, költő, műfordító, dramaturg, rendező, énekes, zenész. Ha úgy tetszik "összművész". Meglehetősen mohó. Mindent akar egyszerre. A közönség szavazatai alapján odaítélt Arany Medál díjat is megkapta. Berobbant a színházi szakma, az ország köztudatába, és masszívan ott is maradt. Nem a Egy lázálomban született meg Jekyll és Hyde kultura.hu     2024-12-03 06:30:09     Könyv Skócia 130 éve, 1894. december 3-án halt meg a csendes-óceáni Szamoán Robert Louis Stevenson skót regényíró, esszéista, költő, A kincses sziget, a Dr. Jekyll és Mr. Hyde és más népszerű könyvek szerzője. Több száz magyar filmet nézhetünk ingyen egy hónapig in.hu     2024-12-02 20:25:04     Film Moszkva Szabó István Jancsó Miklós Mészáros Márta Makk Károly December 2. és január 6. között ingyen látható a Filmio kínálatában több mint 450 magyar film a Meseautótól a Fehérlófián át a Moszkva térig.A "Megajándékozunk kedvenc magyar filmjeiddel" akció során ingyen elérhetők többek között Fábri Zoltán, Makk Károly, Mészáros Márta, Elek Judit, Jancsó Miklós és Szabó István alkotásai, az első magyar némafilm Grecsó Krisztián családtörténetében háborúk dúlnak a szabadságért Könyves Magazin     2024-12-02 19:23:46     Könyv háború Grecsó Krisztián új kötete nagyszabású család- és aparegény, melynek író főhőse transzgenerációs traumák és öröklődő mintázatok sokaságával számot vetve indul el az énkeresés fájdalmas, mégis megkönnyebbülést hozó felismerésekkel teli útján. Az Apám üzent lapjain nemcsak szívmelengető anekdoták vagy éppen húsbavágó történetek sorakoznak, hanem sajá Közzétették a Kraven, a vadász első nyolc percét Player     2024-12-02 19:12:02     Film Mozi Sony Spider Man Pókember A Sony nem tanult az egyre silányabb Venom-mozikból, a Madame Web és Morbius című borzalmakból, a jelek szerint továbbra is szentül hiszik, hogy tudnak ők jó Pókember-spinoffot csinálni. 10 érdekesség a Harry Potter és a Titkok Kamrájából, amiről talán még nem is hallottál Joy     2024-12-02 22:01:00     Film Harry Potter Fóbia A fiatal Ruper Grint majdnem elájult a forgatáson, pedig nem is kellett találkoznia fóbiája rémisztő lényeivel. "Azahriah élete nem lehet könnyű" NLC     2024-12-02 18:10:40     Film Interjú Azahriah Mazzag Izabella nem könnyű feladatot kapott: át kellett törnie a falakat, amiket Azahriah állított, amikor a róla készült filmen, a Mi vagyunk Azahriahon dolgozott. Sikerült az áttörés? Összebarátkoztak közben? Miért nem szólalnak meg a filmben Azi családtagjai? Interjú a rendezővel. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

10 édes és sós finomság leveles tésztából, ami az ünnepi asztalon is megállja a helyét Mindmegette     2024-12-02 19:04:00     Recept Karácsony A leveles tészta nemcsak a hétköznapokon nagy segítség, hanem az ünnepi készülődést is megkönnyíti. Mutatunk most édes és sós harapnivalókat, amiket a családi ebéden vagy vacsorán is bátran felszolgálhatsz, és nem kell velük sokat pepecselned. Galambos Lajcsi focistától szerette el élete szerelmét Habostorta     2024-12-03 06:33:00     Bulvár Párkapcsolat Lagzi Lajcsi Szomorú hírt kaptunk: meghalt Galambos Lajos volt felesége, Boglárka, aki évek óta betegeskedett. A trombitás 2021 őszén jelentette be, úgy határoztak, Konklávé : Sixtus-kápolna háború Mafab     2024-12-03 04:50:02     Film háború Olaszország Róma Pápaválasztás A Pápa halott. Lawrence bíborosnak össze kell hívnia a Konklávét, egy zárt ajtók mögött zajló szavazást, hogy megválasszák az új Szentatyát. Az összes bíborost Rómába rendelik, hogy a Sixtus-kápolnában érzelmes eszmecserékkel megvitassák, ki lesz a legalkalmasabb az egyház vezetésére. Ebben a szokatlan, zárt drámában az egyházi személyeket egy reme Az Árulók házaspárja lebukott a gyilkosok előtt? rtl.hu     2024-12-02 21:25:00     Film Az Árulók szereplőinek fákjalánggal kellett jelezniük, hogy melyik az a játékostársuk, akiben teljesen megbíznak. Az egyik gyilkos Szekeres Szilviát jelölte meg legfőbb bizalmasának, annak ellenére, hogy úgy sejti, Szilvi és Ferenc mindenkit megvezetnek a kastélyban. Vecsei H. Miklós, a meglehetősen mohó – színészportré Tudás.hu     2024-12-03 05:25:41     Színpad Színház Vecsei H. Miklós, becenevén Hasi, művészeti mindenevő, színész, író, költő, műfordító, dramaturg, rendező, énekes, zenész. Ha úgy tetszik "összművész". Meglehetősen mohó. Mindent akar egyszerre. A közönség szavazatai alapján odaítélt Arany Medál díjat is megkapta. Berobbant a színházi szakma, az ország köztudatába, és masszívan ott is maradt. Nem a Egy lázálomban született meg Jekyll és Hyde kultura.hu     2024-12-03 06:30:09     Könyv Skócia 130 éve, 1894. december 3-án halt meg a csendes-óceáni Szamoán Robert Louis Stevenson skót regényíró, esszéista, költő, A kincses sziget, a Dr. Jekyll és Mr. Hyde és más népszerű könyvek szerzője. Több száz magyar filmet nézhetünk ingyen egy hónapig in.hu     2024-12-02 20:25:04     Film Moszkva Szabó István Jancsó Miklós Mészáros Márta Makk Károly December 2. és január 6. között ingyen látható a Filmio kínálatában több mint 450 magyar film a Meseautótól a Fehérlófián át a Moszkva térig.A "Megajándékozunk kedvenc magyar filmjeiddel" akció során ingyen elérhetők többek között Fábri Zoltán, Makk Károly, Mészáros Márta, Elek Judit, Jancsó Miklós és Szabó István alkotásai, az első magyar némafilm Grecsó Krisztián családtörténetében háborúk dúlnak a szabadságért Könyves Magazin     2024-12-02 19:23:46     Könyv háború Grecsó Krisztián új kötete nagyszabású család- és aparegény, melynek író főhőse transzgenerációs traumák és öröklődő mintázatok sokaságával számot vetve indul el az énkeresés fájdalmas, mégis megkönnyebbülést hozó felismerésekkel teli útján. Az Apám üzent lapjain nemcsak szívmelengető anekdoták vagy éppen húsbavágó történetek sorakoznak, hanem sajá Közzétették a Kraven, a vadász első nyolc percét Player     2024-12-02 19:12:02     Film Mozi Sony Spider Man Pókember A Sony nem tanult az egyre silányabb Venom-mozikból, a Madame Web és Morbius című borzalmakból, a jelek szerint továbbra is szentül hiszik, hogy tudnak ők jó Pókember-spinoffot csinálni. 10 érdekesség a Harry Potter és a Titkok Kamrájából, amiről talán még nem is hallottál Joy     2024-12-02 22:01:00     Film Harry Potter Fóbia A fiatal Ruper Grint majdnem elájult a forgatáson, pedig nem is kellett találkoznia fóbiája rémisztő lényeivel. "Azahriah élete nem lehet könnyű" NLC     2024-12-02 18:10:40     Film Interjú Azahriah Mazzag Izabella nem könnyű feladatot kapott: át kellett törnie a falakat, amiket Azahriah állított, amikor a róla készült filmen, a Mi vagyunk Azahriahon dolgozott. Sikerült az áttörés? Összebarátkoztak közben? Miért nem szólalnak meg a filmben Azi családtagjai? Interjú a rendezővel. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Netflix: 81 országban került a top10-be az új sikersorozat, 57,4 millió megtekintett órával simán lenyomta a kihívókat Mafab     2024-11-06 17:55:02     Film Netflix Szinkron A heti összesítő elején fontos megemlíteni, hogy akad egy film, ami nem került minden országaban vetítésre, szerencsére mi azonban élvezhettük, ráadásul olyan szinkronszínészek tolmácsolásában, mint például Mikecz Estilla. A hét nagy nyertese A szépség ára dominált, melyre a címben is utaltunk, és a Meg ne mozdulj. Halálos betegséget ábrázolt Michelangelo a híres képén Blikk     2024-11-06 17:38:57     Könyv Évszázadok óta kíváncsi tömegek csodálják a Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetét és esnek ámulatba Michelangelo Buonarroti újragondolt jeleneteitől a Teremtés könyvéből. Kevesen, ha egyáltalán bárki észrevehette, hogy a 300 alak közül az egyik hamarosan meg fog halni. A boltozat második födémén látható női mell részletes vizsgálata arra enged következtetni, Lehengerlő előzetest kapott Marlon Brando életrajzi drámája Igényesférfi.hu     2024-11-07 08:34:33     Film Mozi Hollywood Titanic 2025-ben fut be a mozikba a Waltzing with Brando című életrajzi mozi, mely egészen új fénytörésben mutatja majd be a 20. század egyik legnagyobb hollywoodi színészének személyiségét. A főszerepet a Titanic egykori rosszfiúja, Billy Zane játssza, s az első előzetes alapján a maszkmesterek csaknem tökéletes munkát végeztek. Kerülj ünnepi hangulatba! 12 darab, ami tökéletes lehet a karácsonyi időszakban Éva Magazin     2024-11-07 06:35:00     Karácsony Életmód A karácsony minden túlzás nélkül nagyon is közeleg, így most segítünk egy picit előre gondolkodni. Olyan ünnepi darabokat hoztunk, amiket nagyon megéri majd beszerezni! Technó parti, ahol a szülők gyerekeikkel buliznak NLC     2024-11-06 17:56:41     Színpad Wednesday Tört ütemekre a színpadról almalét feltörlő anyuka, a kamaszkorát újraélve ikszelő apuka, cukortól felpörgött, nyolcéves Wednesday Addams, Tilos-dj és letüdőzött szappanbuborék: a PomPom Party-n nincsen fék. Így buliznak önfeledten a szülők saját gyerekeikkel a legkeményebb elektronikus zenékre. Hatalmas elismerésben részesült Kamarás Iván édesanyja, Uhrik Teodóra Story     2024-11-06 18:00:32     Bulvár Elismerés A Kossuth- és Liszt Ferenc-díjas táncművész sosem erőszakoskodott vagy könyökölt, csak kinyújtotta a kezét és elfogadta, ami jött. Mi történik a gyerekemmel, ha én már nem leszek? – súlyos kérdésre keresi a választ az RTL+ Premium új dokumentumfilmje rtl.hu     2024-11-07 09:00:00     Film Dokumentumfilm On The Spot November 7-től elérhető az RTL+ Premium előfizetői számára Az életed nélkülem című dokumentumfilm. Rubi Anna alkotása az On The Spot ajánlásával érkezett a streaming platformra, Cseke Eszter és S. Takács András egyben a film társproducerei is. 36 éves lett Emma Stone - így jutott el a TV-től az Oscarig Origo     2024-11-06 20:04:05     Film Hollywood Oscar-díj Emma Stone TV-ben kezdte a karrierjét, ma már két Oscar-díj tulajdonosa. Emma Stone megjárta a hollywoodi "szamárlétárát". Elárverezik Dorothy húsz éve ellopott piros cipőit 24.hu     2024-11-07 10:14:22     Film Cipő FBI Az FBI 13 év után kerítette elő a Judy Garland által viselt flitteres lábbelit, most bárki megvásárolhatja. Az ellentmondásokban rejlő erő – Tulassay Ádám az Operaház új Requiem-produkciójáról Fidelio     2024-11-07 09:35:00     Zene Színpad Verdi Requiemje egyházzenei alkotás vagy színpad nélküli opera? Mi áll a középpontjában, a halálfélelem vagy a bizakodás? Ezekre a kérdésekre is keresi a választ az Opera új produkciója, melynek kapcsán a rendezővel, Tulassay Ádámmal beszélgettünk. Horrornak hirdetik, mégsem az a Holnap meghalok kultura.hu     2024-11-07 10:54:04     Film Mozi Mozikban az újabb magyar horrorfilm. A Post mortem ugyan lekerült a szűkített Oscar-listáról, azonban vitathatatlan, hogy horror. Ez utóbbi Cibulya Nikol rendezéséről nem állítható teljes bizonyossággal. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Netflix: 81 országban került a top10-be az új sikersorozat, 57,4 millió megtekintett órával simán lenyomta a kihívókat Mafab     2024-11-06 17:55:02     Film Netflix Szinkron A heti összesítő elején fontos megemlíteni, hogy akad egy film, ami nem került minden országaban vetítésre, szerencsére mi azonban élvezhettük, ráadásul olyan szinkronszínészek tolmácsolásában, mint például Mikecz Estilla. A hét nagy nyertese A szépség ára dominált, melyre a címben is utaltunk, és a Meg ne mozdulj. Halálos betegséget ábrázolt Michelangelo a híres képén Blikk     2024-11-06 17:38:57     Könyv Évszázadok óta kíváncsi tömegek csodálják a Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetét és esnek ámulatba Michelangelo Buonarroti újragondolt jeleneteitől a Teremtés könyvéből. Kevesen, ha egyáltalán bárki észrevehette, hogy a 300 alak közül az egyik hamarosan meg fog halni. A boltozat második födémén látható női mell részletes vizsgálata arra enged következtetni, Lehengerlő előzetest kapott Marlon Brando életrajzi drámája Igényesférfi.hu     2024-11-07 08:34:33     Film Mozi Hollywood Titanic 2025-ben fut be a mozikba a Waltzing with Brando című életrajzi mozi, mely egészen új fénytörésben mutatja majd be a 20. század egyik legnagyobb hollywoodi színészének személyiségét. A főszerepet a Titanic egykori rosszfiúja, Billy Zane játssza, s az első előzetes alapján a maszkmesterek csaknem tökéletes munkát végeztek. Kerülj ünnepi hangulatba! 12 darab, ami tökéletes lehet a karácsonyi időszakban Éva Magazin     2024-11-07 06:35:00     Karácsony Életmód A karácsony minden túlzás nélkül nagyon is közeleg, így most segítünk egy picit előre gondolkodni. Olyan ünnepi darabokat hoztunk, amiket nagyon megéri majd beszerezni! Technó parti, ahol a szülők gyerekeikkel buliznak NLC     2024-11-06 17:56:41     Színpad Wednesday Tört ütemekre a színpadról almalét feltörlő anyuka, a kamaszkorát újraélve ikszelő apuka, cukortól felpörgött, nyolcéves Wednesday Addams, Tilos-dj és letüdőzött szappanbuborék: a PomPom Party-n nincsen fék. Így buliznak önfeledten a szülők saját gyerekeikkel a legkeményebb elektronikus zenékre. Hatalmas elismerésben részesült Kamarás Iván édesanyja, Uhrik Teodóra Story     2024-11-06 18:00:32     Bulvár Elismerés A Kossuth- és Liszt Ferenc-díjas táncművész sosem erőszakoskodott vagy könyökölt, csak kinyújtotta a kezét és elfogadta, ami jött. Mi történik a gyerekemmel, ha én már nem leszek? – súlyos kérdésre keresi a választ az RTL+ Premium új dokumentumfilmje rtl.hu     2024-11-07 09:00:00     Film Dokumentumfilm On The Spot November 7-től elérhető az RTL+ Premium előfizetői számára Az életed nélkülem című dokumentumfilm. Rubi Anna alkotása az On The Spot ajánlásával érkezett a streaming platformra, Cseke Eszter és S. Takács András egyben a film társproducerei is. 36 éves lett Emma Stone - így jutott el a TV-től az Oscarig Origo     2024-11-06 20:04:05     Film Hollywood Oscar-díj Emma Stone TV-ben kezdte a karrierjét, ma már két Oscar-díj tulajdonosa. Emma Stone megjárta a hollywoodi "szamárlétárát". Elárverezik Dorothy húsz éve ellopott piros cipőit 24.hu     2024-11-07 10:14:22     Film Cipő FBI Az FBI 13 év után kerítette elő a Judy Garland által viselt flitteres lábbelit, most bárki megvásárolhatja. Az ellentmondásokban rejlő erő – Tulassay Ádám az Operaház új Requiem-produkciójáról Fidelio     2024-11-07 09:35:00     Zene Színpad Verdi Requiemje egyházzenei alkotás vagy színpad nélküli opera? Mi áll a középpontjában, a halálfélelem vagy a bizakodás? Ezekre a kérdésekre is keresi a választ az Opera új produkciója, melynek kapcsán a rendezővel, Tulassay Ádámmal beszélgettünk. Horrornak hirdetik, mégsem az a Holnap meghalok kultura.hu     2024-11-07 10:54:04     Film Mozi Mozikban az újabb magyar horrorfilm. A Post mortem ugyan lekerült a szűkített Oscar-listáról, azonban vitathatatlan, hogy horror. Ez utóbbi Cibulya Nikol rendezéséről nem állítható teljes bizonyossággal. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

La Paeria de Balaguer enviarà entre avui i demà a la Comissió Jurídica Assessora de la Generalitat la documentació perquè es pronunciï sobre la suspensió de l’acord a què s’havia arribat amb la plantilla sobre la reducció de la jornada laboral durant l’estiu Els partits polítics i diverses entitats locals de Balaguer van decidir no participar en l’ofrena floral organitzada per la Paeria aquest dimecres 11 de setembre. L’acte organitzat per la Paeria s’ha fet a les 12 del migdia al monument de l’Escull per celebrar la unitat de la llengua catalana, una proposta que va generar controvèrsia entre les formacions i associacions de la ciutat La Noguera commemora la Diada Nacional de Catalunya a Castelló de Farfanya. Durant la celebració s’ha projectat un vídeo sobre els 30 municipis de la Noguera, tots ells partícips de la commemoració comarcal Unes 3.000 persones es van manifestar a Lleida pel futur de la pagesia i la independència. L’ANC aconsegueix mantenir el pols al carrer amb una convocatòria que han valorat com un èxit L’IPC interanual a les comarques de Ponent i l’Alt Pirineu i Aran cau quatre dècimes a l’agost i se situa en el 2,5%. Baixa el preu del transport, mentre que puja el de la roba i el dels paquets turístics Creix un 8% l’índex de criminalitat a les comarques de Ponent i l’Alt Pirineu i Aran des de principis d’any. Ja hi ha hagut els mateixos homicidis que l’any passat i pugen un 60% les temptatives d’assassinat Unió de Pagesos estima que la verema caurà un 40% de mitjana arreu de Catalunya a causa de la sequera. Les pèrdues més severes es constaten a Costers del Segre i Pla de Bages, amb un descens de la collita de més del 70% Aquest dijous es fa a Balaguer l’acte d’entrega de premis del VI concurs de dibuix Tapa d’Agenda, que organitza el Servei de Rehabilitació Comunitària Avança a bon ritme l’escultura en homenatge al pastisser Lluís Muixí, que s’ubicarà a la Plaça de la Sardana. L’escultura està impulsada per l’associació AFAN, que continua recollint aportacions per finançar el projecte, que té per objectiu recordar la figura del pastisser balaguerí Vilanova de Meià celebra aquest cap de setmana la seva festa major. Divendres com a actes destacats s’oferirà una cantada d’havaneres amb el grup Boira, des de 2/4 d’11 de la nit a la Plaça de l’Església, i la nit jove al poliesportiu amb el grup Sixtus i la dj Luara Bearka També Ponts celebra aquest proper cap de setmana la seva festa major, amb activitats que comencen dijous amb els actes més tradicionals El Club Futbol Balaguer ha perdut aquest dimarts la Copa Lleida contra el Borges Blanques per 0 a 1. Una diana dels garriguencs al minut 9 de joc ha sentenciat les aspiracions del balaguerins Èxit de participació en la 38a edició de la Cursa de la Diada de Térmens. La prova constava d’una cursa de 10 kilòmetres, curses per parelles, una caminada i com a novetat d’enguany, curses infantils no competitivesDescarregar àudio (0:00 min / 17.3 MB)

"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.

Welcome to The Saint of the Day Podcast, a service of Good Catholic and The Catholic Company. Today's featured saint is St. Sixtus II. If you like what you heard, share this podcast with someone you know, and make sure to subscribe!

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Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II; elected pope in 257, and repaired the rift between the sees of Rome and Carthage that had developed over the issue of baptism and rebaptism; forbidden to hold services, Sixtus and his deacons worshipped in the cemetery chapel; in 258, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded Sixtus, along with four of his eight attendants; Lawrence was martyred four days later Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/7/24 Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28

Jeremiah 31:1-7 (You shall be rebuilt, virgin of Israel) Wisdom 3:1-9 (The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God) Ecclesiasticus 2:7-13 (You who fear the Lord, trust the Lord)

Born: 406 AD, Imola, Italy Died: July 31, 450 AD For more on St. Peter Chrysologus and his teachings From Wikipedia: Peter was born in Imola, where Cornelius, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola, baptized him, educated him, and ordained him a deacon. He was made an archdeacon through the influence of Emperor Valentinian III. Pope Sixtus III appointed Peter as Bishop of Ravenna (or perhaps archbishop) circa 433, apparently rejecting the candidate whom the people of the city ofRavenna elected. The traditional account, as recorded in the Roman Breviary, is that Sixtus had a vision of Pope Saint Peter the Apostle and Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first bishop of that see, who showed Sixtus a young man, the next Bishop of Ravenna. When a group from Ravenna arrived, including Cornelius and his archdeacon Peter from Imola, Sixtus recognized Peter as the young man in his vision and consecrated him as a bishop. St.-Peter-ChPeople knew Saint Peter Chrysologus, the Doctor of Homilies, for his short but inspired talks; he supposedly feared boring his audience. His piety and zeal won universal admiration. After hearing oratory of his first homily as bishop, Roman Empress Galla Placidia supposedly gave him the surname Chrysologus, meaning "golden-worded." Empress Galla Placidia patronized many of projects of Bishop Saint Peter. In his extant homilies, bishop Peter explained Biblical texts briefly and concisely. He also condemned Arianism and Monophysitism as heresies and explained beautifully the Apostles' Creed, the mystery of the Incarnation, and other topics in simple and clear language. He dedicated a series of homilies to Saint John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Peter advocated daily reception of Eucharist. He urged his listeners to confide in the forgiveness offered through Christ. He shared the confidence of Saint Pope Leo I the Great (440-461), another doctor of the Church. A synod held in Constantinople in 448 condemned Eutyches for Monophysitism; Eutyches then appealed to Saint Peter Chrysologus but failed in his endeavour to win the support of the Bishop. The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon(451) preserves the text of letter of Saint Peter Chrysologus in response to Eutyches; Peter admonishes Eutyches to accept the ruling of the synod and to give obedience to the Bishop of Rome as the successor of Saint Peter. The post St. Peter Chrysologus – The Doctors of the Church: The Charism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunson – Discerning Hearts Podcast appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts.

Have you ever been at mass and heard a long list of Saints during the Eucharistic prayer? Many of them are familiar, like Mary, Joseph, and the Apostles… some of them might not be, like Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Laurence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian… and then after the consecration, there is another long list… who are all these people? And why do they get special mention in the Eucharistic Prayer? In this episode, I explore the Saints of Eucharistic Prayer I, aka the Roman Canon.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1080, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Patrons Of The Arts 1: 7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee and this card company. Hallmark. 2: In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage and to this name. the King's Men. 3: Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, and his own work is kind of in that style. Impressionist. 4: Luciano of this colors-ful Italian clothing company is a noted arts patron through a center called Fabrica. Benetton. 5: As well as the Sistine Chapel, named for Sixtus, Pope Paul III got Michelangelo to fresco this chapel, named for himself. the Pauline Chapel. Round 2. Category: Collegiate Movie Titles 1: Demi Moore was Esmeralda's voice in this epic from Disney. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 2: Coach K knows all about this 2005 Johnny Knoxville film, based on a TV series. The Dukes of Hazzard. 3: We found Matthew Fox; he was in this 2006 movie with Matthew McConnaughey. We Are Marshall. 4: The title of this Homeric film is also a Sun Belt Conference school located in Alabama. Troy. 5: This 1984 Spielberg sequel had nothing to do with a Philadelphia university. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Round 3. Category: Tv Series Episodes 1: "McGarrett is Missing". Hawaii Five-O. 2: "A Bionic Christmas Carol". The Six Million Dollar Man. 3: "The Ghost of General Lee". The Dukes of Hazzard. 4: "The Gamesters of Triskelion". Star Trek. 5: "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man". The X-Files. Round 4. Category: The B.G.'S. With B.G. in quotation marks 1: In 2013 this Bee Gee launched his Mythology tour in tribute to his late brothers. Barry Gibb. 2: Classic ones include Parcheesi and Sorry!. board games. 3: In 2013 one of these worn by Jackie Robinson, possibly in the 1955 and '57 World Series, sold for $373,002 at auction. a baseball glove. 4: It's how to say good morning or good day in Italian. buon giorno. 5: This colorful Kentucky city made Forbes' list of the 25 best places to retire in 2014. Bowling Green. Round 5. Category: Taekwondo 1: (Zee James presents the clue.) Taekwondo means the art of kicking and punching, and it's renowned for powerful kicks like this turning one with the circular structure in its name. roundhouse. 2: (Zee James presents the clue.) A punch delivered on the front foot side of a stance is called an obverse punch; one delivered from the back foot side is called this. reverse. 3: (Zee James presents the clue.) Blue represents the negative, red the positive in the Taegeuk, the symbol of this country that in 2018 named taekwondo its official sport. South Korea. 4: (Zee James presents the clue.) Kung fu master Bruce Lee advised students to be like this natural substance; taekwondo students learn to emulate it in the flowing movements of the form called Taegeuk Yook Jang. water. 5: (Zee James presents the clue.) Used for both offense and defense, the 1-legged stance, named for this wading bird, can be used to unleash a powerful side kick. crane. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.

"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.

Vienna, 1917: As snow storms pummel the city, spies and princes in disguise carry documents with secrets that could topple an empire. ACTOR/S Paul Storrs as Edward Lisle-Strutt

Today's Topics: 1, 2, 3, 4) Gospel - Mt 14:13-21 - When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, He withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by Himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When He disembarked and saw the vast crowd, His Heart was moved with pity for them, and He cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples approached Him and said, "This is a deserted place and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves." He said to them, "There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves." But they said to Him, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have here." Then he said, "Bring them here to Me," and He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over– twelve wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children. Memorial of Saint Cajetan, Priest Memorial of Saint Sixtus II, Pope and Martyr, and his Companions, Martyrs Saints Cajetan, Sixtus and Companions, pray for us! Bishop Sheen quote of the day Matthew Arnold joins Terry to discuss in detail the Church's ancient teaching on how, exactly, we are saved

Fr. Roger J. Landry Saint Joan of Arc Church, Orleans, Massachusetts Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Sixtus and Companions, Martyrs August 7, 2023 Num 11:4-15, Ps 81, Mt 14:13-21   To listen to an audio recording of today's homily, please click below:  https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicpreaching/8.7.23_Homily_1.mp3   The following points were […] The post Gratitude Versus Grumbling At The Way The Lord Feeds Us, 18th Monday (I), August 7, 2023 appeared first on Catholic Preaching.

Memorial of St. Sixtus II, Pope & Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs: Office of Readings Hymn First Antiphon: The holy martyrs died for Christ; with their blood they enriched the earth. Their gift is crowned with everlasting life. Psalm 2 Second Antiphon: The just will live for ever; to live in God is their reward. Psalm 33 Third Antiphon: My saints, you fought the good fight in this world; I will give you the reward of your labors. Psalm 33 Verse: Our spirits yearn for the Lord. Resp: He is our help and our protector. First Reading: 1 Rom 8:18-39 Response: Then you will be true sons of your Father who is in heaven. Second Reading: From a letter by St. Cyprian, bishop and martyr Response: So that the life of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal bodies. Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

Memorial of St. Sixtus II, Pope & Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs: Invitatory Invitatory Antiphon: Come, let us worship Christ, the King of martyrs. Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

Memorial of St. Sixtus II, Pope & Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs: Compline Antiphon: O Lord, our God, unwearied is your love for us. Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

We find ourselves in the ancient city of Rome. The capital city of Italy. We go to the bridges, something we have never seen be paranormal before, but boy, this one definitely is. Ponte Sisto is one of the most cursed bridges in Rome and even in the world!Listen to Jake give us a good reason to not walk on the bridge after midnight. And to not pick up any gold you find on t he bridge, either. Listen to Davis give us some questions all about movies set in that Italian capital city. And Lisa tells us all the popes and the bridges that came before what we see in that spot to this day.All this and so much more on this possibly cursed episode of the Possibly Paranormal Podcast. Don't worry about crossing this bridge, because we promise it's safe enough to get across... Possibly. This is the 107th episode of The Possibly Paranormal Podcast. TPPP 107: Ponte Sisto.Support the show

May 18: Saint John I, Pope and Martyr c. Late Fifth Century–526 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red The pope is crushed in a secular vice by two worldly masters The early Popes were Roman citizens who retained their birth or baptismal names upon being elected to the See of Peter. Their names perfectly reflect a flourishing Roman culture rather than the Christian subculture which was gradually budding and flowering in its midst. So there are Popes Clement, Linus, Anacletus, Sixtus, Victor, Callixtus, Urban, and Fabian. It sounds like a roll call of Roman senators in white togas seated on the marble benches of the Forum. It is not until 254 that Pope Stephen bears a name from the New Testament and not until 336 does Pope Mark honor an Evangelist. Considering the centrality of Saints John the Evangelist and John the Baptist to the Christian story, it is surprising that five hundred years transpired before today's saint, Pope John I, so honored their memory. A pope is only called the “First” once there's a “Second.” In 533 a man named Mercurius succeeded today's John as Bishop of Rome. Mercurius' birth name was so overtly pagan—honoring the Roman God Mercury—that he chose to honor his martyred predecessor John by adopting his same name. Mercurius thus initiated the venerable tradition of a pope adopting a new name upon his election. At the same time he also retroactively turned Pope John into Pope John I. The flow of the early martyrs' blood had long since ceased by John I's election in 523. There was no emperor or court even left in Rome by 523 for barbarians to attack. The traditional date of the fall of the Western Roman Empire is 476. John I was, then, the pope of a declining, far western outpost of an empire whose central government had been in Constantinople for almost two hundred years by John I's election. Rome was fading. The Empire's long, slow decline in Italy had created a vacuum. Rugged tribes of the North, including the Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths), poured south into the warm valleys and cultured towns of the Italian countryside and saturated Rome itself. The Ostrogoths had called the Italian peninsula home for so long that, by the sixth century, they were part Roman, part barbarian, and part Christian. Borderlands are always a mix. For complex historical reasons, the Ostrogoths and their Italian ruler, Theodoric, were Arians. Their prior isolation in Northern Europe had prohibited them from absorbing the teachings of the fourth-century Councils of Nicea and Constantinople. So the Ostrogoths were unaware that the Church had decisively rejected the Arian heresy, which held that Christ was a god, but not the God. It was amidst these tense political and religious circumstances that poor Pope John I was placed in an impossible situation. John was caught between the Emperor Justin in remote Constantinople, who exercised significant control over Church discipline, and Theodoric, who was standing right at his side, breathing down his neck. Justin had issued an edict ordering the Arians, including the Ostrogoths in Italy, to surrender their churches to the Catholics. Theodoric would have none of it. He was as angry as a hornet. To him, it was the first step toward Constantinople reasserting its control over Italy, something the Ostrogoths would resist to the death. So Theodoric sent Pope John at the head of a large embassy of Roman dignitaries to Constantinople to demand that Justin withdraw the edict. Pope John obediently went. He was greeted in the capital with elaborate ceremony and honored as head of the Church. But he could not, and did not, secure what Theodoric so desired. It was impossible. The edict was binding. When Pope John and his party crossed the Adriatic Sea to return to Rome, they landed at Ravenna. Theodoric, who had heard of Pope John's failure to have the edict rescinded, imprisoned him. And there the Pope died, in Ravenna, perhaps of shock, perhaps of mistreatment. His blood did not run red like the martyrs of old, but he died a victim for Christ nonetheless, unable to simultaneously satisfy two powerful secular masters. John I's mortal remains were returned to Rome. In keeping with the custom for all popes since Pope Leo the Great (440–461), Pope John I was interred in the nave of the Constantinian Basilica of St. Peter. When the new St. Peter's was built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, John's tomb did not surface nor did any epitaph. But Pope Saint John I is still there, somewhere, under the floor of St. Peter's, arms crossed, facing up, ring on his bony finger, vested in gold, miter crowning his head, as waves of tourists walk on the marble floor above him. He rests in peace, forgotten to but a few. Pope Saint John I, your fidelity to your vocation as Pope led to your death. You were faithful in the face of threats from civil power but did not bend to its will. May all popes look to your example for inspiration in leading the Church.

After a few weeks we come back to talk about the amazing history of this land, one that Tuscans are generally very fond of. While it's true that many other places can boast about a rich past, what makes this place different is that ancient events always find a way to sneak into everyday life. There are Tuscans squabbling about battles happened centuries ago! Despite this, many of the more interesting events about this land are unknown to many. Few people, for example, know that up until the 17th century, Pisa had a different patron saint, Saint Sixtus. Even fewer people are aware that behind the choice of Saint Rainier there was the not-so-subtle land of Pisa's sworn enemy, the Medici family. That's why this week "What's Up Tuscany" will bring you back to the city of the Leaning Tower to tell you everything there is to know about this remarkable tale of faith, superstition and political intrigue.If you listen to the entire episode, you'll know about the remarkable history of the unfortunate Pope that is one of the few saints celebrated by both the Catholic and the Orthodox church. I'll tell you also about the very odd reason that made him so close to the hearts of the Pisa faithful and how a devastating defeat broke this special relationship. In the final chapters, we will explore how the fight between the Emperor and the Pope gave rise to the figure of Saint Rainier and why, several centuries later, it was the Florentines that pushed to have him as the patron saint of their arch-rival so that people forgot about their proud past. This is truly a special story that speaks volumes about how history is never far from this land. It always come back to haunt you.Email: podcast@larno.itFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/larno.itTwitter: @arno_it / @WhatsupTuscanyLINKS TO SOURCES (ITALIAN ONLY)http://www.stilepisano.it/leggende/leg(g)ende_pisane_N20_sanranieri_26feb2018.pdfhttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Sisto_(Pisa)https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Sisto_IIBACKGROUND MUSICPipe Choir - Bom Bom Breakthrough (Instrumental)Wayne John Bradley - SummercycleAerocity - Cold Weather KidsWayne John Bradley - WaitingCityfires - Blood Problems (Instrumental)Pipe Choir - Children of the SonWayne John Bradley - Blues Rock Original InstrumentalAll released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licensehttps://soundcloud.com/pipe-choir-2/pipe-choir-bom-bom-breakthrough-creative-commons-instrumentalhttps://soundcloud.com/ayneohnradley/summercycle-original-indie-style-instrumental-creative-commonshttps://soundcloud.com/argofox/aerocity-cold-weather-kidshttps://soundcloud.com/ayneohnradley/waiting-original-uplifting-indie-pop-style-instrumentalcreative-commonshttps://soundcloud.com/ljayofficial/blood-problems-instrumentalby-cityfireshttps://soundcloud.com/pipe-choir-2/pc-one-children-of-the-son-creative-commons-instrumentalhttps://soundcloud.com/ayneohnradley/blues-rock-original-instrumentalcreative-commonshttp://www.pipechoir.com/

After the peace of Lodi, the relative stability on the peninsula allows Venice to concentrate on the Ottomans again and the inevitable first war breaks out in 1463.Before that, we see one of the few doge's to actually be deposed, Francesco Foscari a record breaking doge for various reasons and sexy actor in "The Medici" Tv series.Then, when Venice reaches a rather humiliating peace with the Turks, it seems like a perfect time to them to start the war of Ferrara from 1480 to the peace of Bagnolo in 1484.Then it's time to make their way out of the Middle Ages with dark clouds looming on the horizon.

People today believe that Christianity is being put back into its cage. That it's being snuffed out. But what those poor folks don't realize is how the release of the old pluralistic religions into the world, like that of Rome in the first century, is creating the exact same conditions that allowed Christianity to take hold and win hearts in the first place. What kind of world do we imagine the twelve apostles woke up in each morning? There wasn't even a single church for them to go to. They had nothing but the life and words of Jesus, and even that wasn't written down yet. They didn't have pamphlets to hand out or crosses to give away. They only had faith that Jesus was God, and with a rudimentary liturgy from the Last Supper, they built the church from that. They lived among the most hostile of worlds to the idea they were selling. It inverted everything that the Romans and Jews and every other culture held as truth. Yet the message of “Surrender your life to the crucified Christ, the humble carpenter, and you will find peace!” took the world by storm. For the apostles, there wasn't even so much as an Adoration Chapel to find refuge in, unless you count the Upper Room where they huddled in fear until Pentecost. Those who wish for the death of the Christian faith or the Catholic Church may be in for a rude awakening when the conditions are re-created so that this dynamite can erupt once again. The watered-down, lukewarm, stale versions of Christianity has turned people off, as familiarity breeds contempt. The merger of worldly desires with the goals of Christianity has repulsed people. But the more that we retreat from the ideas that Jesus brought to us, we will begin to realize what we had, and what we lost, and why it won so many hearts and minds in the first place. The Way, as it was originally called, long before it was called Christianity, was a life of total surrender to Christ; to Jesus himself, the risen and glorified God-man. The Way, long before the Mandalorian borrowed that noun, meant abandoning all possessions and goals and desires to be reborn in life through Christ. As we separate into our homes, hovering over our devices, in isolation, the communities of real people that form around Christ and his Church will once again remind us how his victory was achieved without sending down fire from heaven. That's the freedom that Christ gives. That's the relationships that he creates. That's the whole secret. And that's the recipe that has been put into storage and is waiting to be re-introduced, and will be in spectacular fashion once the “Big Empty” of this world's pleasures becomes felt again. As it was in the first century, so shall it be again. I've said it more than once on this site but I'll say it again. We are lost in the morass of modern desires because of a simple fact:We want the wrong things. In this age of comfort we have the extreme luxury of being able to assume that we are in charge, that we humans don't need a healer or savior. However, anyone who has gotten drunk a thousand times trying to find heaven can tell you (pick me!) that the next thousand times turns into hell. The same goes for sex or anything else, because the initial high wears off and the addiction takes you by the throat. We may not need a cataclysm to find the need for God, but we will have signs along the way even in days of comfort. One sure fire way to remove all doubt of our need for God is when food prices triple and fuel runs out. Then we may be reminded of what the pre-Christian world was like, and what type of people and powers occupied it. Affluence can provide a mask of control over our affairs, when in reality we are just a few weeks of broken supply-chain away from total desperation. Even without something dramatic we will find the same conclusion. We control nothing in the end. There are two great tests in life. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want. For those of us who have lived in the West our entire lives, we don't know what it means to live in a fully godless society, but we should remain under no illusion that our chance to learn isn't nearing. Within the last century, Mexico and Russia have had extermination campaigns to kill off every priest in the land, and both have failed. This has happened before. It has happened in all of Europe during the early centuries of Christianity. It has happened in Japan. Priests are getting killed every week in Nigeria even today. There are thousands of pages of martyr stories from every corner and country in the world. It is happening now in Nicaragua. It will most certainly happen in America at some point. Rest assured, there is a new Miguel Pro right now, already born today in one of the fifty states. There is a St. Lawrence and a St. Joan of Arc, already attending faith formation classes somewhere. They are out there, praying, on their journey toward God. St. Paul went to Athens, the place of sophisticated non-believers, and stood on the Areopagus long ago, but we are reaching a point where it will happen again, because most people today don't even know the story of Jesus. We are traveling backward in time. Few kids today could tell you who Moses or David was or why their names are known. This whole yo-yo effect nearly has a Big Bang feel to it, like how the universe is said to expand and contract. It's like there is a parallel in human history, as the expansion of sin ran amok from Adam to Noah, then contracted in the Flood. Then sin expanded again, from Babylon through Rome, and then contracted once Christ's message was rolled into the cosmos from the center-point of the ancient world in Jerusalem. The false religions started backpedaling into hiding. And today, as promised by Jesus, the devil would be let free for awhile and sin would seem to rule. The devil has been released for his time, and clearly the twentieth century was part of his allowance. If you don't believe the message of Christ is divinely inspired, then you have to at least consider the fact that the story of Christ is far more compelling to people than that of Zeus or Wicca or the other stories of supernatural explanations. The fact is that Christianity has a far better story, even if you don't believe in supernatural things. We have just stopped telling the story because many of the tellers can't separate themselves from the Word of God. The reason the message is diluted is because you have everyone claiming the message and welding their favorite sin onto the message, whether it be love of money or sexual sin. We are lacking heroes and authentic lives. We don't yet have our St. Benedict or St. Sixtus or St. Anthony of Egypt. But that person will arrive. The false prophets are loud, but they will fade away. And even if they continue to make noise and draw followers, the way of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is already known to those who seek to follow Him. People have forgotten that demons exist. Now we are emboldened by a false sense of security, as the chaos of the world seems gone. We can walk into dark basements and tell ourselves that no monsters exist. Feeling so bold, we have even started seeking out those demons once again. But we are only bold because we know the light switch is near. The comfort of technology and electricity acts as a security blanket. After all, monsters aren't real, or so we tell ourselves. So there's nothing to be afraid of. Right? And yet people still go out into the countryside, or woods, or a basement when the bulb is out, and they start to wonder…what if they are real? The boldness shrinks when the lights go out, or the engine fails, or the boat starts to take on water. People who are glued to screens do not understand what prior generations did. As soon as the chaos peeks its head out from the darkness, we're not so sure that those monsters are gone. This is the result of people trying to live on reason alone. Stuffing our sense of the supernatural into a box doesn't make it disappear. The ghosts and demons come out of hiding once God is forgotten or ignored. Since the demons cannot destroy God, the next best thing is to destroy his beloved creation, and that means you and me. The best way to destroy a person is to tell them there is no God. It's also the easiest. We are wired for God, but we are wired for desire and rebellion as well. The wiring for God urges us, via our consciences, to seek God, as doing the wrong thing leaves us empty. No one wakes up from a one-night stand and feels fulfilled. No one wakes up after a food or drinking binge and feels it was a good decision. If they do, they are already long down the path of denying that sin exists. Habitual sin acts like blinders on a horse, keeping the soul going in the direction where the devil wants to take you. The good that we are after is not the stuff or substance that we want. It's something far better, but we have to give up our self to obtain what is truly good. As soon as there is no God, then we can not only do whatever we like, but then we must solve all of our problems by ourselves and using things in this world. Or, if we can't solve them, we at least must shove our problems out of the way. This can be seen in basic data points, like how non-religious doctors are much more likely to hasten and accelerate death of terminally ill patients. The reality of the denial of God and rejection of the idea of sin rises up like swamp gas. Once the flip of the switch is made where God is not something to be taken seriously, then something must take its place because we still need salvation, a healer. If you don't think you do, examine where all of your free time is spent and you will find your surrogate savior. For many, it's sports. For others, it's politics. For the more obvious sinners, it's drugs, alcohol, and sex. In all cases, the person of Jesus takes a backseat, or is kicked out the car altogether. For those who remain on a strict diet of Enlightenment thinking, they have tapped technology to play the savior. They have turned to science, because rejecting spirits and God leaves no where else to turn. At least the seekers who summon spirits are trying, unboxing that supernatural feeling. Reason alone leaves you as half a human. The body and the soul must be put back together, as is done to Peter in John, Chapter 6. When all other options have failed, when flat reason and unbelief leaves you flat, and the false religions are outed as nonsense, you will have nowhere else to turn. Consider this exchange between Peter and Jesus, but replace the word “Jesus” with “Science” or “Technology” or “Wicca” or “Astrology”. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” (Jn 6:67-69)Now the modern version:Science then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Science, to whom shall we go? You have the words of material life. We have come to believe and are convinced that there is no God.” (Jn 6:67-69)Technology is the modern master, but it's an odd one because it's an amorphous blob of knowledge, not wisdom, that is so specialized that we just grunt and accept it as the one true god, like cave men who “knew” that the sun god or big oak tree held all the secrets of the universe. For 99% of us, if tomorrow we were told that electrons were found to be very tiny acorns, we would take it on faith as a fact, because in no way or scenario could most people ever test or prove otherwise. Now, we have to take it on faith that physicists and chemists would not lie to us like that. Yet often they do. Science takes bad paths that require a long time to undo, plus a massive waste of time and energy as good money follows bad science. (If you don't believe me, see the 2006 Alzheimer's research, or dry labbing, or the history of phrenology, or cold fusion in a coffee cup, or Piltdown man in Sussex, or many, many other cases). Unsurprisingly, scientists are as susceptible to the deadly sins like anyone else, much of which is prompted by the shiny tempting apple that promises to get their paper published and make them a science god. You can see that Genesis 3:1 verse playing out in those stories just like any other story. Can't you just see how the wheels turn in a brain to lie, to fudge the truth, in order to get a paper published? When the serpent says to Eve, “Did God really say you can't eat from the tree?” This is how that question plays out:“Did God really say…I can't alter this image to match my experiment results?”After all, we only sin because we perceive a good thing and want it, and decide that skirting the next right action will be acceptable, as the perceived good thing we want won't hurt anyone if we just cheat a bit to get it. We want status and recognition, that is the perceived good thing. In order to get it, how easy it is to be convinced that our ideas and interpretation of the data is correct, and that we just need to fit things into our mind's image of the world, instead of resting our in God's world. Faith is submitting our intellect and will to God, which means that unbelief is the opposite: it is submitting our will and intellect to our selves. So science has its own falls and corruption. It advances and retreats and advances again. Science can do so much, but only so much. The limitation to science is the fact that it can't get outside the universe, nor can it tell us why a sunset is beautiful, or why Shakespeare's stories are timeless, or why seeing a baby born can change a person's conception of everything in creation. In fact, this is exactly why so many people like to quote Hamlet when he says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” There is more to this world than science and technology. In fact, the dullest things in this world is the way we treat nature like it was a cadaver to be dissected. Consider Horatio to be like a Mark Zuckerberg, or any agnostic or atheist. Hamlet and Horatio have just seen and spoke with the ghost of Hamlet's father. Horatio is the archetype of the Enlightenment world-changer.Horatio, a model of rationality, is still having a hard time swallowing the whole business. Ghosts are not the sort of beings his "philosophy" easily takes into account. We know that Horatio is, like Hamlet, a student at the University of Wittenberg, a notable outpost of Protestant humanism. The philosophy he studies there is probably classical—a compound of ethics, logic, and natural science. The emphasis on everyday phenomena pretty much excludes speculation about talking ghosts. (From enotes.)So Horatio is just like a modern person, like me not that long ago, who must rely solely on reason and rationality. He is one of those poor folks sliced in half, by their own volition: all body, no soul. Because like our alternate version of Peter, anonymous internet user, where else can Horatio go? Peter can say to Jesus, the living son of God, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” The purely rational person cannot ask for any spiritual explanation, ever! Because even cracking the door to the reality of souls and spirits leads to a flood of what-ifs. To someone trying to live in a world of pure reason, the only thing holding back the chaos monster is science and technology. The odd thing about this position is that while you lampoon the religious as superstitious fools who puts his fingers in his ears and makes noise to drown out the reality of the material world, on the flip side, the rationalist must put his fingers in his ears and make noise to drown out the possibility of ghosts and spirits. Anything beyond the material world must be stuffed in a box, because if even a single ghost story is true, if a single prophecy of the future was proven legit, or if any being's soul is real, or any miracle has ever happened - even a single miracle - then the closed door of reason is suddenly flung wide open. Thus the savior of technology must be clung to, because to what else can the non-believing materialist turn? All spiritual things must be deduced to a chemistry problem. Many people can claim to make their decisions based purely on reason, but like many a Christian who claims to be in a state of grace while receiving the Eucharist, there is a lot of not-so-devout rationalists. But they believe that when push comes to shove, they will side with science, just as even the most lukewarm Christian will declare that their alliance falls on the side of faith. But these types of declarations are for grouping and identifying oneself, where the science-fan does not wish to align with the ignorant believers and the half-hearted Christian will side with believers to avoid being called a heathen. Marketing departments make healthy profits relying much on our instinctual reaction to divide ourselves among declarations. Selling cars and nail polish is not terribly different from selling a worldview, but the worldview you adopt has a far greater impact on your life and death than the color of your fingernails on the steering wheel.The promise of freedom through a gadget or technology leads to a kind of reliance, and ultimately a kind of slavery. But this servitude cannot easily be seen except by some unfortunate prophetic Cassandra who know of problems to come, yet can do nothing to halt its progress. Also, it should be noted that once Prometheus had stole fire from the gods, no one ever suggested that he put it back, even if it turned out the we weren't even ready to handle fire properly. The entrepreneurial maxim that “If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door” holds true whenever we discover something new and shiny. But these are all distractions from the truth. And all of those shiny things will leave you empty, all of those experiences will end and require another chase down the next rabbit-hole. There is always something to keep looking for, until you trip over the treasure in the field, and find Jesus, the crucified carpenter, and discover that it was him you were looking for all along. Then like St. Augustine you can say, “My heart was restless until it rested in Thee.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

Things heat up as the animosity between the Medici and pope Sixtus IV leads to one of the most infamous conspiracies in history: the Pazzi conspiracy, set up to kill Giuliano and Lorenzo De Medici and overthrow the Signoria, the government of Florence

The rivalry between Lorenzo de Medici and pope Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere starts to heat up as they clash over lands and resources, reaching very dangerous levels. Meanwhile the Medici brothers find time for another great tournament and Giuliano finds love with the most beautiful woman in Florence, the "living Venus" Simonetta Vespucci, whose name leads us into a digression on where America got its name.

Before the responsibility of government is handed over to him at his father's death and before getting married the statesman, banker, lover of philosophy and poet Lorenzo De Medici takes a few last opportunities at carefree youth with a tournament and party that would never be forgot.

We accompany the last set of popes of the middle ages, from Nicholas V to Innocent VIII as they take us out of th middle ages with the usual intrigue in the Italian peninsula with Naples,Florence, Milan and Venice as well as many others as the city of Rome takes the shape we would start to recognise today.

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"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.

"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.

Wisdom Wednesday The Quest For The Holy Grail SOLVED Through Saint Laurence with Brother Andre Marie Special Guest - Brother Andre Marie Host of ReConquest aired only on the Crusade Channel. Follow him on social media GAB and Twitter - @Brother_Andre Saint Laurence -  First, he is named in the Roman Canon, which always indicates a significant cultus had formed around him. In the old (pre-1955) days, in fact, he was honored with both a Double of II Class feast as well as an Octave, indicating his importance.  He was a deacon in Rome under Pope Sixtus II. The pope was martyred a few days before Lawrence, but although a pope clearly outranks a deacon, it was Lawrence, not Sixtus, who was honored with the greater feast and martyrology.  At his death, Lawrence prayed for the conversion of Rome, and when this happened a few decades later, it was credited to his prayers, making today Rome's chief feast after June 29 (Peter & Paul).  The old collect for today's feast used to be included in the standard prayers of thanksgiving that priests would say after Mass. So Lawrence's intercession was literally asked thousands of times a day, every day, for centuries.  Finally, the stories of his presenting the poor as the "treasures of the Church" and being burned are among the most famous in Church history.  August 6th has become the Feast of the Transfiguration. HEADLINE: VALENCIA - The Home of the Holy Grail  Islam doesn't work this way. 11,000 people were willing to shed their blood for the Catholic faith. The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians.  ‘Behold the Treasures of the Church' - St Laurence  ‘I'm done on this side, turn me over and eat' - St Laurence HEADLINE: Death of Family: Majority of Babies Born Out of Wedlock for First Time in History by Kurt Zindulka  HEADLINE: Apostolic Constitution — Quo Primum by Pope Saint Pius V Latin = Laurence  English Language = Lawrence  HEADLINE:  Our Lady of Walsingham by Eleonore Villarrubia  This lovely little Gothic-style (also called “perpendicular”) chapel is just a little larger than dimensions of the Holy House — 28'6” x 12'5”. Our Lady of Walsingham Lament - Weep, weep, O Walsingham whose days are nights, blessings turned to blasphemies, Holy deeds to despites. Sin is where Our Lady sat, Heaven turned is to hell, Satan sits where Our Lord did sway, Walsingham, oh farewell! Ballad of Walsingham - O gracious Lady glory of Jerusalem Cypress of Sion and joy of Israel Rose of Jericho and star of Bethlehem O glorious Lady our asking not repel In mercy all women ever thou dost excel Therefore blessed Lady grant thou thy great grace To all that thee devoutly visit this place. Amen. HEADLINE: Episode 338: Our Obligation to Give Glory to God by Brother Andre Marie Please say a few prayers for Brother and the Sisters - the school year is about to get underway. Our Readers And Listeners Keep Us In Print & On The Air! Click here to subscribe to The CRUSADE Channel's Founders Pass Member Service & Gain 24/7 Access to Our Premium, New Talk Radio Service. www.crusadechannel.com/go What Is The Crusade Channel? The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming day with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by award winning,  25 year news veteran Janet Huxley. Followed by LIVE! From London, “The Early Show with Fiorella Nash & Friends. With the morning drive time beginning we bring out the heavy artillery The Mike Church Show! The longest running, continual, long form radio talk show in the world at the tender age of 30 years young! Our broadcast day progresses into lunch, hang out with The Barrett Brief Show hosted by Rick Barrett “giving you the news of the day and the narrative that will follow”. Then Kennedy Hall and The Kennedy Profession drives your afternoon by “applying Natural Law to an unnatural world”!    The CRUSADE Channel also features Reconquest with Brother André Marie, The Fiorella Files Book Review Show,

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August 10: Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyrc. Early Third Century–258Feast; Liturgical Color: RedPatron Saint of deacons, comics, and cooksA Deacon heads the Church for four days, then perishes like his fellow deaconsThe Church's liturgy, like all public rituals whether sacred or secular, is inherently conservative. Its form is not easily altered. Its content shapes, more than is shaped by, the Church and the wider culture. The liturgy moves through time like a great river moves through the land. It plows its own path, carving the terrain, gradually and incontrovertibly forming a new landscape. One generation is too few to notice, but a few generations pass and, suddenly, a river separates two families, a valley turns into a lake, a dam submerges a city, water destroys what once had been, and the world is different. Feast days and solemnities, most notably Christmas and Easter, shape entire cultures too: their calendars, music, food, festivals, dress, dance, language, art, architecture, and on and on. There is almost nothing that the liturgy and its calendar do not touch. Liturgy creates worlds.Besides being culture creators, liturgical Feast Days also preserve the past for the present and the future. A Feast Day freezes time and preserves the memory of the world's oldest mind—that of the Catholic Church. The Church does not suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She is rejuvenated with every baptism and so is perpetually young, impervious to the dementia typical of great age. Today's saint, the Deacon Lawrence, is celebrated with a Feast on the Church's calendar, not just a memorial or an optional memorial. This liturgical fact is revelatory and beautiful. He was martyred so long, long ago. He is not Christ, Mary, or a pope. Yet he has a Feast Day! What is the past telling us by this? What is the Church's calendar communicating to the faithful by this interesting fact?This Feast opens the curtains on the events of August 258 as if they were as fresh as buns right out of the oven. Look and see the cast of characters. Emperor Valerian is to the side, sitting on his marble throne. An official reads the Emperor's decree aloud: “All bishops, priests, and deacons are to be summarily executed.” Pope Sixtus II is roughly taken away by Valerian's soldiers during Mass in the candlelight of a catacomb on August 6. Six of Rome's seven deacons are killed with Sixtus. In accord with the Church's theology, they were closer to their bishop than to any priest, so they die with him. The Church has been almost decapitated. There is only one deacon left. The hunt is on for Lawrence, the ranking head of the Church. He is found. He is martyred. It is August 10. The curtain closes.In a tradition already ancient by the third century, Rome had seven deacons to minister to the material needs of the impoverished, widows, and orphans of Rome. Lawrence excelled at this task, which he operated out of a house-church in Central Rome. When the popular and well-loved Lawrence died, he was venerated with a fervor unlike almost any other early martyr. His cult spread like the fire that tradition says roasted him alive. Devotion to him spread as far north as Scandinavia, England, and Germany. Traditions large and small abounded.The details of his martyrdom are incomplete. But holy legends have supplied what documents could not, and none of them are illogical, mythic, or banal. They might contain the essential facts—he was burned alive on a gridiron. Lawrence was buried just outside the walls of ancient Rome, where a minor basilica, also the burial site of Pope Pius IX, still stands. Numerous other churches in Rome are dedicated to his memory, including the house-church where he ministered. The current church on the site is, to this day, still enclosed inside of a larger building just as the house-church was. The deacon-martyr Lawrence gave a witness so powerful to Rome that his death may have been the no-going-back-moment which proved that Christianity was here to stay, forever, in the capital of the world.Saint Lawrence, may your example inspire all clergy, and especially deacons, to remain close to both their bishops and their people, providing faithful witness to the truths of our faith, which are worth living and dying for.

Welcome to The Saint of the Day Podcast, a service of Good Catholic and The Catholic Company. Today's featured saint is St. Sixtus II. If you like what you heard, share this podcast with someone you know, and make sure to subscribe!

In the middle of the Third Century, it was still illegal to be a Christian. That would not change until Emperor Constantine in 313. Still, the Church was growing and the Roman Emperors were getting worried. So much so, that Emperor Decius, in 250 A.D., issued an edict that every person in the Roman Empire had to sacrifice to a Roman god in the presence of a state official. They were then issued a certificate as proof saying that the sacrifice was offered. Many Christians moved to the countryside. Some obeyed the edict, even knowing that these Roman gods did not exist. Others purchased a certificate and avoided the sacrifice. Still others, refused to submit and were cruelly put to death.After being secretly ordained, Pope Sixtus II and a select group of companions would sneak into one of the catacombs that extended for miles under the city of Rome. Emperor Valerian, who succeeded Decius, sent soldiers into the catacombs to hunt them down. Perhaps they were drawn by the singing, but the Pope along with his deacon companions were all arrested and put to death. When St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in North Africa received the news, he wrote the following letter: “Valerian has issued an edict to the Senate to the effect that bishops, presbyters, and deacons shall suffer the death penalty without delay…I must also inform you that Sixtus was put to death in a catacomb on the sixth of August, and four deacons with him…Let all our people fix their minds not on death but rather on immortality…knowing that in this contest the soldiers of God and Christ are not slain but rather win their crowns.”These thoughts from long ago come to mind in light of our Gospel reading today. Christ says to us, “For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” We need to ask ourselves what is most important in our lives. If we rely too heavily on our physical appearance, we will be disappointed. Looks, as we know, are fleeting. If we place too much emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth, then all our efforts will have to be passed on to others after we die. If we are relying on our accomplishments, they, too, will fade away. Even St. Thomas Aquinas, after all his philosophical and theological insights, felt they were all “like straw” compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.Our love for God and neighbor is the only thing we will take with us when we die.Blessings,Fr. Kevin MacDonald, C.Ss.R. 

August 7: Saint Sixtus II, Pope; and Companions, MartyrsEarly Third Century–258Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: RedPatron Saint of Bellegra, ItalyThe Pope is murdered in cold bloodThe sixth pope was named the “Sixth” or, in Latin, “Sixtus.” He reigned from 115–125 A.D. The next Sixtus was today's martyr, who reigned from one August to the next in 257–258. Sixtus II (or Sixth, the Second) is listed in the Roman Canon's select roll call of sainted popes: “Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian…” The preservation of his name in the liturgy is compelling proof of the lasting impact of his bloody witness. After the legalization of Christianity in 313, perhaps two popes were martyred, although various others died unnatural deaths. But throughout the 200s, solid historical evidence proves that more than a dozen popes were assassinated by Roman authorities just for being Christian leaders. Many of their remains were interred in an ornate burial chamber in the catacombs of Saint Callixtus, which was excavated in the 1850s.Sixtus II succeeded to the Chair of Saint Peter at a difficult time. The on-again, off-again persecutions of the early Church were on-again in the 250s. The Roman Emperors Decius and Valerian sought the blood of Christians not only to try to decapitate the surging Church but also to confiscate the wealth and property of Christians. The tensions in Church-State relations were no less serious than internal Church tensions tearing at its unity. The persecution of Decius from 250–251 was wicked. Decius' edict required everyone in the empire to sacrifice to a Roman god in the presence of a state official, with a signed libellus, or certificate, being issued afterward as proof that the sacrifice had been offered. Many Christians were weak and afraid and so sacrificed to gods they knew didn't exist. Some Christians purchased a libellus, some fled to the safety of the countryside, and some refused to sacrifice and were cruelly martyred.Christians' divergent responses to the persecution—some heroic, some weak, some uncertain—were traumatic for the Church. Many in the African and Asiatic Church said that those who sacrificed (the lapsi) must be re-baptized. Pope Stephen I, Sixtus II's predecessor, said that the lapsi must only repent to be reconciled with the Church. The theological positions of the two camps were each sincere and hardened over time. There was no easy answer. After Pope Stephen died, it seems that Pope Sixtus II was more diplomatic in seeking reconciliation with the African and Asiatic churches over this controversy, although it would not be theologically resolved until Saint Augustine wrote one hundred and fifty years later.Sixtus II had to be consecrated as Pope in secret because of the times. In 257, the formerly peaceable Emperor Valerian issued an anti-Christian edict which forbade Christians from assembling in cemeteries. Sixtus avoided persecution for many months. But in early August 258, Valerian got serious. A new edict focused on essential targets. Bishops, priests, and deacons could be put to death without a trial. On August 6, 258, Pope Sixtus II was with his flock, seated and preaching the word of God, probably at Mass, in the catacombs. A small troop of soldiers was on the hunt. The Pope must die. With torches lighting the way, the soldiers scurried through the warren of dark and narrow passageways toward the underground chapel. Perhaps they heard some singing. They acquired their prize soon enough, and the deed was done.Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, North Africa, received the news shortly afterward and, before being martyred himself, wrote a letter to his flock: “Valerian has issued an edict to the Senate to the effect that bishops, presbyters, and deacons shall suffer the death penalty without delay…I must also inform you that Sixtus was put to death in a catacomb on the sixth of August, and four deacons with him...Let all our people fix their minds not on death but rather on immortality...knowing that in this contest the soldiers of God and Christ are not slain but rather win their crowns.” An inscription placed on Sixtus II's tomb over a hundred years after his death by Pope Saint Damasus, rediscovered in the 1800s, verifies the drama of Sixtus II's last moments. It notes that the shepherd gave his life for his flock. The faithful with Sixtus that fateful day walked up the steps of the catacomb into the daylight totally unharmed, while their pastor lay dead. The companions martyred with Sixtus were the deacons Januarius, Vincentius, Magnus, and Stephanus. The deacons Felicissimus and Agapitus were martyred on the same day, but not with Pope Sixtus.Pope Saint Sixtus II, you were a servant and a leader; a confident shepherd to a frightened flock; a central actor, not a bystander; a witness to truth, not an outside observer; a light generating others' shadows. You are known because you were courageous. Make us faithful like you.

Born: 406 AD, Imola, Italy Died: July 31, 450 AD For more on St. Peter Chrysologus and his teachings From Wikipedia: Peter was born in Imola, where Cornelius, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola, baptized him, educated him, and ordained him a deacon. He was made an archdeacon through the influence of Emperor Valentinian III. Pope Sixtus III appointed Peter as Bishop of Ravenna (or perhaps archbishop) circa 433, apparently rejecting the candidate whom the people of the city ofRavenna elected. The traditional account, as recorded in the Roman Breviary, is that Sixtus had a vision of Pope Saint Peter the Apostle and Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first bishop of that see, who showed Sixtus a young man, the next Bishop of Ravenna. When a group from Ravenna arrived, including Cornelius and his archdeacon Peter from Imola, Sixtus recognized Peter as the young man in his vision and consecrated him as a bishop. St.-Peter-ChPeople knew Saint Peter Chrysologus, the Doctor of Homilies, for his short but inspired talks; he supposedly feared boring his audience. His piety and zeal won universal admiration. After hearing oratory of his first homily as bishop, Roman Empress Galla Placidia supposedly gave him the surname Chrysologus, meaning "golden-worded." Empress Galla Placidia patronized many of projects of Bishop Saint Peter. In his extant homilies, bishop Peter explained Biblical texts briefly and concisely. He also condemned Arianism and Monophysitism as heresies and explained beautifully the Apostles' Creed, the mystery of the Incarnation, and other topics in simple and clear language. He dedicated a series of homilies to Saint John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Peter advocated daily reception of Eucharist. He urged his listeners to confide in the forgiveness offered through Christ. He shared the confidence of Saint Pope Leo I the Great (440-461), another doctor of the Church. A synod held in Constantinople in 448 condemned Eutyches for Monophysitism; Eutyches then appealed to Saint Peter Chrysologus but failed in his endeavour to win the support of the Bishop. The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon(451) preserves the text of letter of Saint Peter Chrysologus in response to Eutyches; Peter admonishes Eutyches to accept the ruling of the synod and to give obedience to the Bishop of Rome as the successor of Saint Peter. The post DC14 St. Peter Chrysologus – The Doctors of the Church: The Charism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunson appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts.

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"This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points — compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258." (Great Horologion). His icon shows him stretched on the grill.