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 – 13 September 2026 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 44-A

Chasing Holiness (N)

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

American Catholic- origins
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1138

About- celebrated
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Exaltation-Of-The-Holy-Cross.htm

New Advent- history
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm

Answering Islam
http://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/heraclius.html

Catholic Culture
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2012-09-14

Dear Fr. Thom (N)

The True Cross

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross

Fordham University~ de Voragine, Jacobus, Archbishop of Genoa. The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, 1275.  [First Edition Published 1470.
‘Englished’ by William Caxton, First Edition 1483, Edited by F.S. Ellis, Temple Classics, 1900 (Reprinted 1922, 1931).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend

New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm

Archaeology
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm

Catholic Straight Answers
http://catholicstraightanswers.com/did-st-helena-find-the-true-cross-of-christ

Saints Preserve Us! (N)

St. Robert Bellarmine:

American Catholic
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/Saint.aspx?id=1141

Catholic Online
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=101

New Advent~ St. Robert Bellarmine
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02411d.htm

SQPN
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-robert-bellarmine/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine

It’s Been Said (N)

The cross as symbol:

New Advent- the cross
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm

Wikipedia- etymology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross

New Advent- origins
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm

Sacred Texts- history
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/asw/asw01.htm

Catechetical Corner (N)

Ratzinger, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth, From Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
*especially pp. 1-8, “An Initial Reflection on the Mystery of Jesus”

Scriptural Secrets! (N)

Catholic Culture- Saraph
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2012-09-14

The Divine Lamp
http://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/father-maas-commentary-on-numbers-214-9

Divine Word- Saraph in the Arabah
http://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/father-maas-commentary-on-numbers-214-9

Our Salvation History: Solomon’s Wisdom (T)

I Kings 3: 16-28

 

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