Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church
January is Poverty in America Awareness month. Watch a video about the state of poverty in the United States and learn what it's like to live at or below the poverty line.
"St.
Basil, in a much-quoted homily, once declared that the bread we clutch
in our hands belongs to the starving, the cloak we keep locked in our
closet belongs to the naked, the shoes we are not using belong to the
barefooted." Read more from a reflection on how to live a good Catholic life in this age of rampant consumption.
Learn more about the problem of poverty and possible solutions at our Poverty USA website.
Read the section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
about "The Mysteries of Jesus' Infancy and Hidden Life." Simply enter "522" in the search box to get to the passage.
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