Sources: Liturgical Year C – 2025

To better enable follow-up on each section in The Catholic Navigator and The Catholic Tugboat weekly issues, we strive to base our sources on reliable online Catholic materials. Our hope is to make you, the mobile Catholic, better able to learn as you go about your daily life. However, occasionally we have had to source our commentary only from print material, for which we provide the pertinent information for ordering from a library or book seller. All links have been accessed just prior to posting to assure that they are currently active. To access sources to print editions, move your cursor over the listing for the issue of interest and click to open.

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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 – 18 October 2026 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 49-A

Catholic Notables (N)

Wiki- Arch. Oscar Romero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero

U.S. Catholic
http://www.uscatholic.org/culture/social-justice/2009/02/oscar-romero-bishop-poor

In The Year 4004 B.C. (N)

Wikipedia has an excellent review of Archbishop Usser’s Chronology of the age of the earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology

For an overview of the Catholic view on creationism and evolution
http://catholicbridge.com/catholic/catholic_creationism.php

To learn about the Vatican Observatory
http://vaticanobservatory.org/

To learn about Msgr. Georges Lemaitre
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8847

Chasing Holiness (N)

Review of Catholic teaching on Civil Obedience and Disobedience
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/when-is-it-okay-to-disobey

Money…Money…Money (N)

The monetary system and taxation in First Century A.D.
http://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-13-number-2/the-monetary-system-taxation-and-publicans-in-the-time-of-christ/

Our Salvation History – The Prophets Hold It Together (T)

This article is but a short overview of many books of the Old Testament. There are so many stories to capture your reading interest.

The Fleet Sources – 11 October 2026 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 48-A

Chasing Holiness (N)

Online Etymology Dictionary- Obey
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=obey&searchmode=none

Scriptural Secrets (N)

RC Commentary
http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/matt22v1.htm

Got Questions
http://www.gotquestions.org/parable-wedding-feast.html

The Working Preacher
http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=172

Agape Bible Study
http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/Matthew_Gospel/Matthew_Lesson_21.htm

Bible Study Tools
http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/jamieson-fausset-brown/matthew/matthew-22.html

Bible Study Manuals
http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/jewish_marriage_customs.htm

Veritas Bible Commentary
http://www.veritasbible.com/drb/compare/haydock/Matthew_22

In the Year 1009 A.D. (N)

Church of the Holy Sepulchre
http://www.churchoftheholysepulchre.net/

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-church-of-holy-sepulchre

Saints Preserve Us (N)

St. Teresa of Avila
http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/avila.htm

Interesting information about the Gregorian Calendar
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html

Our Salvation History: The Showdown (T)

See 1 Kings 18

The Fleet Sources – 4 October 2026 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 47-A

Scriptural Secrets (N)

Sacred Texts- vineyards, grapes, presses, etc.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/isa005.htm

Biblical Training- diet
http://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/vineyard

Bible History- Biblical symbolism
http://www.bible-history.com/links.php?cat=39&sub=718&cat_name=Manners+%26+Customs&subcat_name=Vineyards

Christian Resource Institute
http://www.crivoice.org/vine.html

Chasing Holiness (N)

New Advent- Tertiary
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14637b.htm

Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue. Editorial Board of The Classics of Western Spirituality, A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.
*especially pp. 64-68

Saints Preserve Us (N)

New Advent- St. Denis
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04721a.htm

St. Denis is not the only beheaded martyr reported to have carried his own head. Medieval legends of saints abound with such miraculous tales of ‘cephalophores’—head carriers. Here is a link to Wikipedia’s account:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalophore

In the Year 732 A.D. (N)

New Advent- Charles Martel (the Hammer)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03629a.htm

The Latin Library- The Battle of Tours
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/tours.html

Middle East and Islam specialist Raymond Ibrahim’s take on the importance of the Battle of Tours
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/today-in-history-western-civilization-saved-from-islam-at-battle-of-tours/

Our Salvation History: The Prophet, Elijah (T)

See 1 Kings 17 to 2 Kings 2:1-11

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