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• Senate approves Markwayne Mullin as next DHS secretary
• Afghan Taliban Releases US Linguist Dennis Coyle After More Than a Year
• KERMIT GOSNELL DIES IN PRISON
• Israeli Authorities Blocking Humanitarian Aid to Gaza and West Bank
• Nicaragua Bans Ordinations in Four Dioceses
• Senate Republicans say Trump prepared to compromise with Democrats on DHS funding

Saint of the Day:

• St. Gabriel the Archangel

Gospel of the Day:

John 8:21-30

Jesus said to the Pharisees:

“I am going away and you will look for me,

but you will die in your sin.

Where I am going you cannot come.”

So the Jews said,

“He is not going to kill himself, is he,

because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”

He said to them, “You belong to what is below,

I belong to what is above.

You belong to this world,

but I do not belong to this world.

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.

For if you do not believe that I AM,

you will die in your sins.”

So they said to him, “Who are you?”

Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.

I have much to say about you in condemnation.

But the one who sent me is true,

and what I heard from him I tell the world.”

They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.

So Jesus said to them,

“When you lift up the Son of Man,

then you will realize that I AM,

and that I do nothing on my own,

but I say only what the Father taught me.

The one who sent me is with me.

He has not left me alone,

because I always do what is pleasing to him.”

Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

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• Mike Koeniger – Former U.S. Coast Guard
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• Pilot, co-pilot killed after Air Canada plane and vehicle collide at New York’s La Guardia Airport
• Israel launches fresh strikes in Tehran as Trump announces talks being held with Iran on ending the war
• ICE TO DEPLOY AGENTS AT AIRPORTS
• No shutdown deal until Democrats support SAVE America Act
• Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting
• Israeli settlers step up aggressions against Christians in West Bank, Jerusalem bishop says

Saint of the Day:

• St. Joseph Oriol

Gospel of the Day:

John 8:1-11

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area,

and all the people started coming to him,

and he sat down and taught them.

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman

who had been caught in adultery

and made her stand in the middle.

They said to him,

“Teacher, this woman was caught

in the very act of committing adultery.

Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.

So what do you say?”

They said this to test him,

so that they could have some charge to bring against him.

Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

But when they continued asking him,

he straightened up and said to them,

“Let the one among you who is without sin

be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.

And in response, they went away one by one,

beginning with the elders.

So he was left alone with the woman before him.

Then Jesus straightened up and said to her,

“Woman, where are they?

Has no one condemned you?”

She replied, “No one, sir.”

Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.

Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

Guests:

1. Aaron Kildow – YouTube
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2. Dr. Anthony Stine –  YouTube
   • Pope Leo announces October gathering for ‘synodal discernment’ on Amoris laetitia
   • New photos of future Pope Leo XIV in Pachamama idolatry emerge 
   • Pachamama rituals linked to alleged human sacrifice in new report 

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The News:

• Body of missing student James Gracey found in sea near Barcelona
• Clergy seek court order to allow pastoral access to immigrants held at Minneapolis ICE facility
• NETANYAHU BLASPHEMES; IRAN STRIKES ENERGY, ISRAEL, AND U.S. JET
• U.S. deploying 3 more warships, roughly 2,500 more Marines to the Middle East 
• Chuck Norris, martial arts icon and beloved action star, dies at 86 
• MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY CHURCH VANDALIZED

Saint of the Day:

• St. Cuthbert

Gospel of the Day:

John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 

Jesus moved about within Galilee; 
he did not wish to travel in Judea, 
because the Jews were trying to kill him. 
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. 
 
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, 
he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. 
 
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, 
“Is he not the one they are trying to kill? 
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. 
Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? 
But we know where he is from. 
When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.” 
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, 
“You know me and also know where I am from. 
Yet I did not come on my own, 
but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. 
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” 
So they tried to arrest him, 
but no one laid a hand upon him, 
because his hour had not yet come.

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1. Bishop Joseph Strickland – X
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• US F-35 damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes emergency landing
• FBI Is Buying Americans’ Location Data
• FBI conducting leak investigation into former Trump official who resigned over Iran war
• ISRAEL HITS KEY GAS FIELD
• European allies, Japan announce readiness to assist with reopening Strait of Hormuz
• GABBARD: IRAN MADE NO EFFORT TO REBUILD NUKE PROGRAM

Saint of the Day:

• St. Joseph

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 2:41-51a

Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, 

and when he was twelve years old, 

they went up according to festival custom. 

After they had completed its days, as they were returning, 

the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, 

but his parents did not know it. 

Thinking that he was in the caravan, 

they journeyed for a day 

and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, 

but not finding him, 

they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. 

After three days they found him in the temple, 

sitting in the midst of the teachers, 

listening to them and asking them questions, 

and all who heard him were astounded 

at his understanding and his answers. 

When his parents saw him, 

they were astonished, 

and his mother said to him, 

“Son, why have you done this to us? 

Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” 

And he said to them, 

“Why were you looking for me? 

Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” 

But they did not understand what he said to them. 

He went down with them and came to Nazareth, 

and was obedient to them. 

Guests:

1. Jason Jones – Substack – Vulnerable People Project
2. Kyle Seraphin – YouTube – Instagram – Podcast – X
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• Trump waives U.S. shipping law for 60 days, eases Venezuela oil sanctions to steady oil market
• Study Finds Bow and Arrow Swept Western North America 1,400 Years Ago
• Scotland’s Parliament votes against assisted suicide in pro-life victory
• US House panel subpoenas Attorney General Bondi in Epstein probe
• Holy See calls on UN to eradicate surrogacy ‘in all its forms’
• TRUMP FLOATS ‘TAKING’ CUBA TO ‘FREE IT’

Saint of the Day:

• St. Cyril of Jerusalem

Gospel of the Day:

John 5:17-30

Jesus answered the Jews:

“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.”

For this reason they tried all the more to kill him,

because he not only broke the sabbath

but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.

Jesus answered and said to them,

“Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own,

but only what he sees the Father doing;

for what he does, the Son will do also.

For the Father loves the Son

and shows him everything that he himself does,

and he will show him greater works than these,

so that you may be amazed.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,

so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.

Nor does the Father judge anyone,

but he has given all judgment to the Son,

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.

Whoever does not honor the Son

does not honor the Father who sent him.

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word

and believes in the one who sent me

has eternal life and will not come to condemnation,

but has passed from death to life.

Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here

when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God,

and those who hear will live.

For just as the Father has life in himself,

so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself.

And he gave him power to exercise judgment,

because he is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this,

because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs

will hear his voice and will come out,

those who have done good deeds

to the resurrection of life,

but those who have done wicked deeds

to the resurrection of condemnation.

“I cannot do anything on my own;

I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just,

because I do not seek my own will

but the will of the one who sent me.”

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1. Fr. John Brancich – Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
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The News:

• US National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over Iran war, saying Tehran posed no imminent threat
• Thousands of flights canceled or delayed as weather and TSA staffing upend travel
• NATIONS REJECT TRUMP DEMAND FOR HELP REOPENING HORMUZ
• Iran war may push 45 million people into acute hunger by June
• Vatican appeals court declares mistrial in the ‘trial of the century’ against a cardinal
• Missile shrapnel falls in Jerusalem’s Old City holy sites

Saint of the Day:

• St. Patrick

Gospel of the Day:

John 7:14-31

At that time, when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. And the Jews marveled, saying, How does this man come by learning, since He has not studied? Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not My own, but His Who sent Me. If anyone desires to do His will, he will know of the teaching whether it is from God, or whether I speak on My own authority. He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory. But he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the Law, and none of you observes the Law? Why do you seek to put Me to death? The crowd answered and said, You have a devil. Who seeks to put You to death? Jesus answered and said to them, One work I did and you all wonder. For this reason Moses gave you the circumcision – not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers – and on a Sabbath you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you indignant with me because I made a whole man well on a Sabbath? Judge not by appearances but give just judgment. Some therefore of the people of Jerusalem were saying, Is not this the man they seek to kill? And behold, He speaks openly and they say nothing to Him. Can it be that the rulers have really come to know that this is the Christ? Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from. Jesus therefore, while teaching in the temple, cried out and said, You both know Me, and know where I am from. Yet I have not come of Myself, but He is true Who has sent Me, whom you do not know. I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me. They wanted therefore to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him because His hour had not yet come. Many of the people, however, believed in Him.