Catholic
During Lent, we often chose to do penance by depriving ourselves of something that we love, but can live without. I recently received an Operation “Rice Bowl” from Catholic Relief Services. It gives a daily program that is great tool to learn how to use our sacrifices to benefit those in need, especially for families […]
Continue reading about My Brother and Sister’s Keeper (Part 1)
As we celebrate the birth of Jesus this Christmas, it is good to remember that Christmas is more than one day a year. It was and is the start of something much more. I want to share a special story about another Christmas birth this year. It was published earlier this month in the Arkansas […]
Advent is a season of preparation for one of the greatest gifts of all time – the birth of a child named Jesus, who would come to sacrifice himself for those he loved. Many see Jesus as a prophet, but for Christians he is Emmanuel, God with us. Jesus reached out to anyone in need […]
God calls us to lead lives of holiness. Jesus gave the most perfect example with his own life. But he gave us other examples of holiness in his own mother, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Saints are people to whom we can relate, essentially role models for the faithful. Saints do not forget those […]
I recently read “Unitatis Redintegratio” (fancy Latin name for “Decree on Ecumenism”). It’s a document from the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council (V2). This was a revolutionary council for its time, and instituted a renewal for the Catholic Church. This renewal is actually what Jesus wanted – for without such renewal, the Church on […]
It’s a question that we all ask ourselves in one way or another. Theology is for those really holy people who can understand it, right? Nope, wrong-o. Theology is for everyone. It’s not for monks wearing brown robes holed up in stone caves. It’s for every living, breathing human. Theology isn’t the same for everyone. […]
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