Sources: Liturgical Year C – 2025

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This Month's Source Materials

The Fleet Sources – 26 April 2026 – Fourth Sunday of Easter – 24-A

Liturgical Lights… (N)

Etymology
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anamnesis

Sunday’s Word, Year A. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc., 2013.

General Instruction of the Roman Missal (G.I.R.M), USCCB Website:
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal

Dix, Dom Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. Norfolk, Great Britain: Biddles Ltd., 1945.

Scriptural Secrets… (N)

Branick, Vincent. Understanding the Prophets and Their Books. New York: Paulist Press, 2012.

USCCB, Online Bible and Commentary,
http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/10

Catechetical Corner (N)

New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm

Liturgical Lights… (N)

Etymology
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anamnesis

Sunday’s Word, Year A. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc., 2013.

General Instruction of the Roman Missal (G.I.R.M), USCCB Website:
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal

Dix, Dom Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. Norfolk, Great Britain: Biddles Ltd., 1945.

Scriptural Secrets… (N)

Branick, Vincent. Understanding the Prophets and Their Books. New York: Paulist Press, 2012.

USCCB, Online Bible and Commentary,
http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/10

Catechetical Corner

New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm

Catholic Answers- Crimes Punishable by Excommunication,
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/apart-from-abortion-are-there-other-sins-that-incur-automatic-excommunication,

Code of Canon Law (CIC)~ 751; 1323:2; 1324; 1330; 1364:1; 1367; 1370:1; 1378:1; 1398; 1388:1; 1382; 1398

Zenit, Pope: Gospel Must Be Preached Gently, With Fraternity and Love
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-gospel-must-be-preached-gently-with-fraternity-and-love

What’s In A Word? (N)

Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mystery

Technia- Greek Dictionary
http://www.teknia.com/greek-dictionary/mysterion

It’s Been Said (N)

New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07424b.htm

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

Our Salvation History: “The Baby in the Basket” (T)

Exodus 2:1-10

The Fleet Sources – 19 April 2026 – Third Sunday of Easter – 23-A

Saints Preserve Us! (N)

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien#Illness_and_death

New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04615a.htm

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/150532/Saint-Damien-of-Molokai

Scriptural Secrets: (N)

The Jewish Sabbath (Shabbot):

Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in: Hoffman, Rabbi Lawrence A. “The Six Days of Shabbat”
http://www.thejewishweek.com/jewish_life/sabbath_week/six_days_shabbat

Judaism 101
http://www.jewfaq.org/shabbat.htm

Liturgical Lights: (N)

Eucharistic Prayer:

Sunday’s Word, Year A. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc., 2013.

General Instruction of the Roman Missal (G.I.R.M), USCCB Website:
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal

New Testament Times: (N)

Witness in Old Testament Law:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_21003.html

What’s in a Word: (N)

Definitions of Hebrew Words used by Christians:

Please refer to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Our Salvation History: Family Reunion! (T)

Genesis 45

The Fleet Sources – 12 April 2026 – 2nd Sunday of Easter/ Divine Mercy Sunday – 22-A

Saints Preserve Us! (N)

St. Catherine of Siena:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03447a.htm
and
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=9

Tender Mercies: (N)

St. M. Faustina Kowalska and Divine Mercy:

Pasicki, Adam and Danuta, Pearce, Archbishop George, S.M. trans. Diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Massachusetts: Marians of the Immaculate Conception, 2002.

http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1931

http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/stfaust.htm

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=510

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20000430_faustina_en.html

Chasing Holiness (N)

Pope John Paul II:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/index.htm

Pope John XIII:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/index.htm

It’s Been Said… (N)

St. Thomas Aquinas on the existence of God:

Synopsis of argument:
http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/aquinasfiveways_argumentanalysis.htm

Christian Classics Ethereal Library:
Summa Theologiae, First Part, Question 2,

The full argument:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FP_Q2_A3.html