Gretchen Crowe
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Editor-in-Chief, OSV News; president, Catholic Media Assn; author, Legacy of Mercy; Pauline Cooperator; domestic church builder w/ @HeinleinMichael ; Mama x3
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Absolute silence in Lucas Oil with tens of thousands of pilgrims as Bishop Cozzens opens a period of Eucharistic adoration.
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Father Mike Schmitz he can barely contain his enthusiasm as he tells the crowd at the
#eucharisticcongress
the story of our salvation — and in which the cameraman is put to the test to keep up!
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“I’ve been a priest for 38 years and these days constitute one of the great moments of my priesthood.” — Bishop Robert Barron, after coming on stage to huge applause.
@BishopBarron
#EucharisticCongress
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NBD just Jesus coming unannounced through the Indiana Convention Center and the crowd dropping to its knees.
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A Eucharistic blessing from Indianapolis right to you.
#EucharisticCongress
#EucharisticRevival
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This is a great angle.
So many priests and bishops took part in the final Mass of the National Eucharistic Congress that the procession took 25 minutes for them to all enter the NFL stadium.
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What it’s like being Catholic and pregnant at 40 in 2022, a snapshot.
At the urgent care for a sinus infection.
Nurse practitioner: So I see you’re pregnant. Was that planned or … ?
Me: 😳🤔😡🙄 … We are open to life at all times.
NP: Ah.
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“Praised be Jesus Christ,” says Cardinal Christophe Pierre, as he is welcomed as the first speaker of the National Eucharistic Congress to a standing ovation.
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Scripture being read by
@JonathanRoumie
being Jesus in person is surreal.
#EucharisticCongress
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Me in confession: My Advent has been terrible.
Priest: The Christian life is a marathon. Get up off the mat. Have hope.
Sharing in case you need to hear that, too.
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The National Eucharistic Congress’s decision to begin the first revival on the first night with a holy hour was inspired. “Lord, we wanted to give you the first words of our National Eucharistic Congress,” Bishop Cozzens said, and that decision paid off tonight big time.
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AG Josh Shapiro: “Predators in every diocese weaponized the Catholic faith and used it as a tool for their abuse.”
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3yo currently singing the popular playtime mash-up: “Hail Holy Queen enthroned above, E-I-E-I-O.”
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Archbishop Jose Gomez of LA can barely get through his remarks at the news conference on the murder of Bishop David O'Connell. Clearly very upset. "Please keep praying for Bishop Dave and his family."
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"To always be close to Jesus, that's my life plan." — Carlo Acutis
A pretty good one, if you ask me.
This remarkable teenager will be beatified in Assisi tomorrow at 4 p.m. Italian time.
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Please pray for a colleague and friend who is suffering from COVID-19 and is in the hospital on a ventilator. His family, including 5 children, are all fighting the virus. Thank you in advance.
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From
@BishopBarron
on the crisis of the
#nones
: "I think every parish should have, for the next 10 years, round-the-clock Eucharistic adoration, during which good people pray for the return of the unaffiliated."
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Only at a
#EucharisticCongress
do people leave a revival that had 45 mins of adoration and go to … adoration. 🔥🔥🔥
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The final moments of benediction tonight at the National Eucharistic Congress’s first revival session. Also, can you spy
@jdflynn
?
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I mean, I know there's a lot going on right now in the Church and the world and stuff, but our baby slept the entire night last night for the first time ever, and I think that deserves some kind of headline somewhere so here goes. 🎉
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Our God and King blesses the city of Indianapolis and all those on pilgrimage here.
#EucharisticCongress
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Me to 3 yo: I'm going to finish our walk by praying the Rosary. Do you have any special intentions you'd like to pray for?
3 yo: Everyone.
Me: OK, but anyone special?
3 yo: Everyone.
So ... consider yourself prayed for tonight.
#domesticchurch
#catholiclife
#rosary
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🔥🔥
@gloria_purvis
bringing
#EucharisticCongress
to CHURCH tonight.
🔥Like him or not, pray for the pope.
🔥Love Christ more than your political party.
🔥Don’t be afraid of being Catholic.
🔥Reject the sin of racism
🔥🔥
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The best part of being pregnant with our third kid is witnessing how much JOY and EXCITEMENT it brings our two oldest. What a gift!
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Pope Francis blesses the city and the world with the Blessed Sacrament.
#UrbietOrbi
#COVID19
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Google Docs wants me to change "Missal" to "Missile," and, in short, that's everything that's wrong with the world.
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“Bless the Lord, O my soul, worship your holy name!”
This procession of priests and bishops singing their hearts out at the end of the youth Mass is everything. 😭
#EucharisticRevival
#EucharisticCongress
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Eucharist ✔️
Anointing ✔️
Family rosary ✔️
Tucked up excited kids into bed ✔️
Ready to have this baby ✔️
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Cardinal Dolan consecrates the Holy Eucharist at the morning Mass at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on the first full day of the National Eucharistic Congress.
@CardinalDolan
#EucharisticCongress
#EucharisticRevival
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Father Mike Schmitz now on the stage, after getting a rousing standing ovation welcome.
#eucharisticcongress
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Magnificent conclusion to the National
#EucharisticCongress
beginning now with a celebration of the Eucharist as church together, ready to go out on renewed mission. Alleluia.
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Happening now: People almost wrapped around the stage to see
@HBThomists
at
#EucharisticCongress
🎶
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+Cordileone: The eyes of the whole country are on us. If we fail now and do not act courageously in presenting this teaching clearly and convincingly on this core Catholic value, how can we expect to be taken seriously on any other topic?
#USCCB21
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After a 30-minute procession,
@CardinalChito
kisses the altar at the start of the closing Mass of the
#eucharisticcongress
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Great OB visit today after some concerns a couple of months ago. Sometimes you gotta share happy news. Praise God! And look at this FACE! ❤️👶❤️
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A visit with Jesus in downtown Indianapolis. A witness for the world.
#EucharisticCongress
#EucharisticRevival
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I know there's a lot of stuff happening in the world and Church today, but my 13-month-old just said MAMA for the first time, so forgive me but nothing else matters. 😍
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An incredible number of ministers of Holy Communion spread out through Lucas Oil Stadium to distribute the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ to participants of the National
#EucharisticCongress
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I explained to our 7yo a little of what happened with the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies, and his response was:
“It seems like the Olympics organizers need to go to confession.”
Out of the mouths of babes.
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This Nicaraguan Catholic bishop has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for being Catholic. Yesterday, he refused to board a plane that would have deported him to the US, saying he preferred to stay w his country — a very Catholic place that is being stripped of Catholicism 🙏
#Breaking
#Nicaragua
: The "justice" system of the regime of Daniel Ortega condemned the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, for being a "traitor to the homeland" and "undermining national integrity."
He was sentenced to 26 years and 4 months in prison.
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What did happen in Indianapolis? The Church in the US, for all its brokenness, division, confusion, anger and hurt, placed her meager gifts – the work of human hands – at the service of the Lord. He has blessed those gifts, transformed them, and will return them one-hundred-fold
A Eucharistic Triumph in Indianapolis | Stephen P. White: At the Eucharistic Congress Christ’s presence was palpable and pervasive. Everyone there knew it, everyone understood: “The Lord is here. Jesus is here.”
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Praying for our bishops today as they embark upon a weeklong retreat centered upon the abuse crisis. May God give them the wisdom and courage to take the necessary next steps.
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"The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman's motherhood." -- St. John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem
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Get your new Catholic LEGO confession set at the
#eucharisticcongress
(paging
@KatiePMcGrady
)
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Some personal/professional news: In July,
@OSV
announced the Jan 2023 launch of OSV News to fill the void left by
@CatholicNewsSvc
. I’m humbled and excited to share today that I have been appointed OSV News Editor-in-Chief. Archbishop Noll, pray for us!
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Archbishop Charles Thompson of
@archindy
processes into the third and final Youth Mass of the National
#EucharisticCongress
, preceded by dozens of deacons, priests and other bishops.
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This is absolutely incredible. We had no idea. What a beautiful gift.
A behind the scenes look at what was happening backstage at the 10th National Eucharistic Congress. Jesus was being adored in the Blessed Sacrament and we were being prayed for by these Brides of Christ. This Congress was surrounded by the prayers of hidden intercessors.
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St Therese, full of love for Jesus and faithful intercessor, pray for us.
#Lisieux
#lunedemiel
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On a personal note, it has been an absolute joy to be a part of this event and to share a little of it with all of you.
@OSVNews
can’t wait to report on the many fruits that most assuredly will come forth.
See you in the Eucharist.
Mass is over, and we have been sent forth to love and serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
#EucharisticCongress
#EucharisticRevival
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Carlo Acutis is declared Blessed by the Church.
15 years old when he died in 2006.
We do not know the day nor the hour. Let us be like Carlo and live for God so that one day we may join him in heaven.
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This is good. More of this for everyone.
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This story gives me goosebumps!!
As fire raged around them, the Benedictine monks of St. Andrew's Abbey in California evacuated their monastery. But something amazing happened: 'The fire just went around'
#osvnews
#catholicfaith
#californiawildfires
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My sweetest girl prayed the rosary in her own way. ❤️ Mary, you are loved!
#RosaryforAmerica
#OurLadyoftheRosary
#CatholicTwitter
#domesticchurch
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Absolutely gorgeous shrine to Our Lady of Fatima outside
@MarysShrine
. Surreal to visit on 100th anniv of final apparition
#WhytheRosary
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Sister Josephine Garrett urges all people at
#EucharisticCongress
— including our bishops (in this clip) — to repentance.
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In June,
@OSV
stood up for
@gloria_purvis
when an
@EWTN
affiliate dropped her important show after difficult conversations re race. In December, we named her one our Catholics of 2020. Tonight, I stand with her. Hers is a voice the Church cannot afford to lose.
Morning Glory ends in 2020.
I look forward to 2021 and all the opportunities God is sending my way.
The outpouring of support and well wishes is humbling. I thank all of you for that.
I will continue to spread His message and serve Him as an authentic, faithful Catholic.
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Archbishop Henning, asked by the
@BostonGlobe
what he has to say to people in Boston who have left the Church because of the clergy sexual abuse crisis: "If a leader in the Church has failed you, I'm so sorry, but God has not failed you. God is still with you."
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Opened my “The Word on Fire Bible: Gospels” today, and it’s what you would expect from
@BishopBarron
and his team: A thing of beauty that leads with beauty. Congratulations to them on this impressive accomplishment.
@TheAnchoress
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1/Because my son has been sitting at the front of the church nearly every week of his 20 months, he can: point to Jesus on the cross, point to Mary in the stained-glass window above the altar, identify the altar, identify the priest, say some words of the consecration, bow when
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It would be a sign of good faith toward beleaguered Catholics if we were to get more information about the Sheen beatification postponement sooner rather than later. We have been through too much. We deserve clear, timely communication and transparency.
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Bishop Andrew Cozzens offers some final words of gratitude at the end of the closing Mass of this
#EucharisticCongress
that he has championed tirelessly for the past three years.
@BishopCozzens
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Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the US, spoke to OSV News this week, after learning he would be elevated to the College of Cardinals Sept. 30. He said some lovely things in the interview, but my favorite passages are these:
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. Therese of Lisieux. Do you have a favorite image of her?
I’ll start — this beautiful mosaic icon of the Little Flower was purchased in Lisieux on our honeymoon. 🌹
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This is incredible.
Opening procession for Mass on the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions at the National Shrine of the Ugandan Martyrs. The procession moves from the shrine built over where St. Charles Lwanga was killed to a pavilion in the middle of a man made lake.
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On Wednesday, Dec. 28, Pope Benedict received the anointing of the sick. His funeral will be Thursday, Jan. 5, at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, presided over by Pope Francis.
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STUNNING DEVELOPMENT OUT OF PEORIA: Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification POSTPONED
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Good and holy priests, unafraid to teach the truth in charity, pointing always to Christ: YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Thank you, and Happy Father’s Day.
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So many of you have been generous in your prayers for Jason Shanks, president of OSV Institute, as he battles COVID. He has taken a step back in his recovery and is back on the ventilator. Please continue to pray for Jason, his health care team, and his family.
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Bishops are having (the first ever?) discussion session at
#USCCB23
in public session on technology use in liturgy. Lots of conversation. What say you? Good or bad, or somewhere in between?
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Big news: Beatification date for Archbishop Sheen finally set for Dec. 21 at 10 a.m. in Peoria.
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"I can’t imagine a more effective evangelical countersign to the wider world than the kind of mob action that I witnessed last week."
Watch it all,
#CatholicTwitter
. We can all do better. We must.
Friends, Catholics must stop tearing each other apart online. We should be outraged by those who send virulent comments to one another, preventing actually fruitful evangelical conversation. (1/3)
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On the eve of
#USCCB17
, Mass for 100th anniversary of USCCB is about to begin at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption in Baltimore. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin to preside.
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To-Do's for a great
#Advent
:
1) Go to confession
2) Dedicate yourself to lectio divina
3) Pray the St Andrew Novena
4) Attend daily Mass
5) Invite others to attend Christmas Day Mass and a celebratory dinner
6) Seek the assistance of the Blessed Mother
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The very best fruits of social media! We are so blessed!
We all first met on Twitter, now
@FrHarrison
and I are godparents to
@HeinleinMichael
and
@GretchenOSV
new baby John Francis!
The amazing gift of technology!
#childofgod
#baptism
#AscensionoftheLord
@DaughterStPaul
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Pope Francis reminds us this is a time to reset our priorities, refocus on God, and remember that we cannot live and survive without one another.
#UrbietOrbi
#COVID19
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This is about the fundamental right of parents: that they must be able to select responsibly, yet unilaterally, the manner of care and treatment of their own children. Doctors advise, yes, but parents decide. And government remembers its place.
#AlfieEvans
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It took me all week, but I finally got to the St. John the Evangelist Eucharistic Village next to the church. Take a walk-through with me.
#EucharisticCongress
#EucharisticRevival
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Happy Birthday to our Blessed Mother. This quote from St. Augustine says it all.
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Prayers for all affected by this horrible tragedy.
A Kenyan priest and nun, a
@Georgetown
student and four
@CatholicRelief
staffers among those killed in
#EthiopianAirlinesCrash
Our updated story
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At religious liberty summit
@NDLawRLI
, Cardinal Dolan, correcting the narrative on religious freedom, says a review of American history shows that rel liberty is not a “narrow, hyper-defensive, far-right, self-serving cause” — though that is the argument gaining ground in culture
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Caggiano: "If we have catechists who are not witnesses first, who are not developing their prayer life, who don't understand the power of truth, goodness and beauty, then whatever textbooks are created have limited value."
#USCCB23
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