During a number of the Sundays in these summer months within our present liturgical year, as we are working our way through the Gospel of Matthew, we encounter our Lord offering a number of parables concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. On the 17th Sunday in particular, three parables are told to the disciples after they […]
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As God’s Field goes to press this month, we are approximately three months away from the start of the XXVII General Synod of the Polish National Catholic Church, which will gather in Manchester, New Hampshire at the end of September. As we plan for this Synod, it is important that we do so with the
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During this season we celebrate the great Solemnity of Pentecost, the Descent of the Holy Spirit. In some ways we consider this an ending. This is the last Sunday of the Easter season. Following the celebration on this day, we will stop adding the ‘alleluia’ to the dismissal at Mass, the paschal candle will be
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Having now come through the Lenten season just behind us, we come to the moment of joy within the life of the Church. We stand at the empty tomb to proclaim that Jesus lives. Living in the entirety of the life of Jesus at every moment in our Christian faith, we knew that, even in
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This year on March 8, 2026, the Second Sunday of March, the Polish National Catholic Church takes a pause in the series of Lenten Sundays to celebrate the Solemnity of the Institution of the Polish National Catholic Church. There are some who say that to celebrate it in this way is a distraction, because there
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On the first Sunday of Lent in this year, we hear from the Gospel of Saint Matthew concerning our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the desert. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards He was
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As we now find ourselves in the middle of January this is often the time of year when our New Years resolutions begin to fade and we find ourselves in exactly the same place that we were before. In fact in a Forbes poll it was found that between 23% to 64% give up their
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The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, You have increased its joy; they rejoice before You as with joy at harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. For the yoke of
On November 30, 2025 we begin another liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent. Each year the first Sunday of the new liturgical year falls on the Sunday that is closest to the Feast of St. Andrew, the first-called Apostle. As we begin this new year a few things change immediately. The liturgical color
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To Him Who loves us and freed us from our sins by His blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and
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