Sources: Liturgical Year C – 2025

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*A Note about Weekly Sources: Please note that the source references below refer to article titles in The Catholic Navigator (N) and The Catholic Tugboat (T). The two publications are designed to relate closely to each other, though the content is written appropriate to the intended readers.

This Month's Source Materials

The Fleet Sources – 7 December 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Advent – 2-A

Chasing Holiness (N)

St. John of the Cross:
Kavanaugh, Kiernan, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. The Collected Works of John of the Cross. Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1973.

Sr. Mary Inquiry (N)

Doctors of the Church:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05075a.htm
and
http://www.catholic.org/saints/doctors.php

In the Year 1854 (N)

St. Bernadette Soubirous:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1757

Saints Preserve Us (N)

St. Juan Diego:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=73\
and
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Jul2002/Feature1.asp#top

Catholic I.D. (T)

Catholic Answers Forum: “What is the Biblical definition of a prophet?”
https://forums.catholic.com/t/what-is-the-biblical-definition-of-a-prophet/381938

Our Salvation History: A Special Story (T)

Catechism of the Catholic Church – read numbers 109 through 118 for background about how to read the Bible:
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s1c2a3.htm#113

Jesse Tree, Second Week of Advent (T)

Loyola Press:
https://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic-faith/liturgical-year/advent/the-jesse-tree/the-jesse-tree-for-the-second-week-of-advent?p=1

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