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• After looking back for so long in counting and recounting, analyzing and reanalyzing, we finally look forward to Christmas and beyond in caring for the soul and the Catholic conscience in the following articles this week. See CATHOLIC PewPOINT plus GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER and VIEW FROM THE PEW and SYMPHONY OF SUFFERING and PRO-LIFE PRESCRIPTIONS as well as our DAILY Devotions for Late Advent and the Christmas Antiphon Novena celebrating Las Posadas. below.

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SUPPORT THE Artwork "I Knew You" by Shannon Wirrenga, Bismarck, ND. c 1998. All rights reserved

   We are grateful to the artist Shannon Wirrenga (701-255-7312) for permission to use the phenomenal and touching original painting above of Jesus smiling at a newborn babe full of life, a life that He allows. It is appropriately titled "I Knew You," taken from Jeremiah 1: 5. No entity, matter or energy can exist without God and He alone gives and takes life. Life is the most precious gift we have been given. That is why we dedicate this section to the Sanctity of Life for so few realize the treasures it holds from conception to the grave.

    Because the Pro-Life movement is so important to all Catholics, we are also very pleased to announce our association with PRO-LIFE COMMUNICATIONS, a telecommunications firm owned and operated by Joseph and Jane Dalton of St. Charles, Missouri. They are both devoted, staunch Catholics who have dedicated their lives to the Pro-Life cause for the sake of His little ones. We can't endorse their company and benefits enough. In addition, when you abandon AT&T, MCI, Sprint and all those others who contribute to abortion causes, you will not only be receiving better rates and people you can actually talk to rather than the ol' runaround, but for every person who signs up Pro-Life Communications will donate 100% of the net profits to help keep the DAILY CATHOLIC on line. It's a win-win-win situation that God richly blesses. It is not only a necessity to continue this ministry, but it's a necessity that every reader has the peace of mind of being with a phone company that is truly Pro-Life. We pray everyone will realize the need to make this commitment to help eradicate the culture of death.

    The elections are over, but the battle for life is not. We cannot give up the fight. Please continue to pray for the Sanctity of Life and pray for those pro-abort candidates who were elected that they will have a conversion of heart and recognize the evil of their ways. Remember, nothing is impossible with God. We encourage you to go to the Pro-Life links below to keep up to date on the great battle between life and death - the Sanctity of Life vs. the culture of death led by pro-abort candidates and those who would advance murder, immorality, sodomy, perjury, etc.

   Today is the anniversary of two significant events in the Church regarding the Protestant Reformation and the repercussions that ensued. First, on this date in 1526 Pope Clement VII published his Papal Decree Cum ad zero which, in effect, set the Roman Inquisition in place in hopes of stopping the runnaway rebellion and many heresies running rampant. On this same date twelve years later, Clement's successor Pope Paul III was forced to hand the "bell, book and candle" to the monarch of England King Henry VIII even though he had once been hailed by Rome as the "Defender of the Faith." This formal excommunication inferiorated the British king and he retaliated by confiscating all Roman Catholic property in England and ordering all clerics to be subject to him rather than the Pope, thus establishing the Church of England - the Anglican Church as he took all of England with him in schism. To read more of what happened today in Church History, see MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES

A good day to save one's soul

   They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the words of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen have been known to launch a thousand images in one's mind, one of the ways this late luminary did so much to evangelize the faith. Because of the urgency of the times and because few there are today who possess the wisdom, simplicity and insight than the late Archbishop who touched millions, we are bringing you daily gems from his writings. The good bishop makes it so simple that we have dubbed this daily series: "SIMPLY SHEEN".

"Rainy days do make some people sad, but the author remembers saying once to a resident of Killarney: 'Too bad it's raining.' He answered: 'But it's a good day to save your soul.' Come to think about it, it may be easier to do that on rainy days than on sunny days. Our humor and disposition are not so much the reflection of the weather or the wrong side of the bed as they are the reflections of the state of our soul."

NOTE: We respectfully recognize and accept the final authority regarding apparitions, locutions and prophecies presently being reported around the world rests with the Holy See of Rome and the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church to whose judjment we humbly and obediently submit. For the November 25th Message and more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE