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Gospel: Love God with everything you've got Rosary: Luminous Mysteries Pope: Pope fights for your health data privacy TechCrunch: Tinier ring, bigger health insights Politico: Trump ally exposes Iran war's real cost Saint: Silence became his sacred calling
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Mark 12:28-34
"One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments. ’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself."
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In today's Gospel (Mark 12:28-34), Jesus combines two Old Testament commandments. The command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' comes from which book?
- A) Deuteronomy
- B) Exodus
- C) Leviticus
- D) Numbers
Answer at the bottom of this newsletter.
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VATICAN NEWS
Pope Leo XIV personally urged experts revising the World Medical Association's Declaration of Taipei to strengthen ethical safeguards for health databases and biobanks, underscoring the protection of human dignity in the digital age.
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TechCrunch
Oura's latest smart ring is 40% smaller and tracks your health metrics around the clock, starting at $399.
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FAITH & THE WORLD |
Psalm 139:13-14 |
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"You formed my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know."
CCC 364, Unity of Body and Soul
There's something telling about spending $399 to monitor a body we often ignore. The Church teaches that the body isn't a machine to be optimized but a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19), known and loved before any sensor could read it.
Reflect → Are you tracking your body to care for it as a gift, or to control it as a project?
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Politico
A leaked recording captures Rep. Ashley Hinson acknowledging that a potential war with Iran is a political liability, not just a moral one.
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FAITH & THE WORLD |
Jeremiah 6:14 |
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"They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace."
Just War Doctrine (CCC 2309)
When war is weighed on the scales of poll numbers instead of just cause and last resort, something has gone badly wrong. The Catechism (CCC 2309) lists strict conditions for war precisely because human lives cannot be line items in a campaign strategy.
Reflect → When you form opinions about war, do you start with the cost in human lives or the cost in political capital?
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Good News Network
Arsenal FC donates used football socks to help protect sick and injured horses and donkeys at a rescue charity.
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FAITH & GOOD NEWS |
Genesis 1:31 |
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"God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good."
Laudato Si' 68, Care for Creation
Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si' that every creature reflects something of God and has a message to give us (LS 69). A Premier League club repurposing old socks for injured animals is small, strange, and exactly the kind of creative stewardship that makes creation smile.
Reflect → What do you throw away that could still serve someone, or something, else?
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Today's Mysteries |
Thursday: Luminous Mysteries |
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Luminous Mysteries
- 1. The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan
- 2. The Wedding Feast at Cana
- 3. The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God
- 4. The Transfiguration
- 5. The Institution of the Eucharist
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The Objection
"Why do Catholics have seven sacraments? The Bible only clearly talks about Baptism and Communion. The rest seem like man-made rituals."
The Catholic Response
All seven sacraments have roots in Scripture, even if the word 'sacrament' isn't always used. James 5:14 describes anointing the sick with oil and prayer for healing. John 20:22-23 shows Jesus breathing on the apostles and giving them authority to forgive sins, which is the basis for Confession. The Church didn't invent these rites; she recognized what Christ himself instituted and the apostles practiced, then formally defined them over centuries (CCC 1114, 1210).
CCC 1114 | CCC 1210 | James 5:14-15 | John 20:22-23
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DAILY WORD GAME
Test your Catholic vocabulary
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Saint of the Day |
June 4 |
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St. Filippo Smaldone
As a young seminarian in Naples, Filippo Smaldone lost his hearing and voice for several weeks after visiting cholera patients. When he recovered, he devoted his entire priesthood to educating deaf children, founding the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts specifically for that mission. He once pawned his own shoes to buy food for his students.
His feast falls today, and his refusal to give up on people the world overlooked mirrors both California's CARE Court outreach and the Gospel's command to love your neighbor as yourself.
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Trivia Answer
C . The command to love your neighbor as yourself appears in Leviticus 19:18. Many people assume it originates with Jesus, but he was quoting the Torah, pairing it with the Shema from Deuteronomy 6:4-5 to create what we now call the Great Commandment.
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