Today’s Topics:

1) Gospel – Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or 1:18-23 – All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means “God is with us.”

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Mother, pray for us!

Bishop Sheen quote of the day

2) Heroes & Zeroes of August 2022:  Know exactly where our “Catholic” leaders stand, both the “heroes,” standing up for the truth, and the “zeroes,” causing grave scandal with their words and actions 
https://catholicvote.org/heroes_zeroes/august-2022/

3) Liberation from the internet: David Deavel recounts his experiences of unexpectedly losing his home internet. It can be on the one hand a frustrating and even panic-inducing situation, because of our slavery to the web. But by the same token, it can be a freeing experience to be tossed into a present, immediate, sensory, simpler, quieter mode of life. So many aspects of our lives require the internet that most of us can’t be completely free of this external slavery. Fortunately, there are two types of slavery to the internet, and we can absolutely free ourselves from the second type 
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/08/double-slavery-internet-liberation-david-deavel.html 

4) A loving tribute to our Priests by Amanda Evinger
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/08/double-slavery-internet-liberation-david-deavel.html