Category: Lumen Gentium

The Vigilant and Faithful Disciple

by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Book of Wisdom, Jesus Christ, Lumen Gentium, Moses, News, St. Basil, The Dispatch | 0 |

Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide […]

Proclaiming the Kingdom in the splendor of the Son

by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Book of Numbers, Jesus Christ, Lumen Gentium, Moses, N.T. Wright, News, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch, Transfiguration | 0 |

Readings: • Is 66:10-14c • Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 • Gal 6:14-18 • Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 Anyone who has seen a sunrise from a viewpoint overlooking a grand vista knows the wonder of […]

Leaven for the Kingdom

by bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Apostolicam actuositatem, Baptism, Between the Sundays, Confirmation, disciple, discipleship, Featured, kingship, leaven, Living the Faith, Lumen Gentium, mission, News, Second Vatican Council | 0 |

As we finish up looking at our mission as baptized members of the Church, we must remember—baptism doesn’t only make us members of the Church. It incorporates us into Christ. We become part of His Mystical Body. So we are called to share in a measure o…

The risen Christ to the restored Peter: “Feed my sheep!”

by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Ascension, Ezekiel, Jesus Christ, King David, Lumen Gentium, News, Papacy, Resurrection, Saint Peter, The Dispatch | 0 |

Readings: • Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41 • Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 • Rev 5:11-14 • Jn 21:1-19 Years ago, not long after entering the Church, I called into a local radio program hosted by […]

Is Vatican II “spent”? A reply to Michael Pakaluk: Part I

by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Council of Nicaea, Dei Verbum, Features, Lumen Gentium, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John XXIII, Second Vatican Council, Vatican II | 0 |

Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]

The Road of Gathering, Exodus, and Salvation

by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2021 | Bartimaeus, Bishop Robert Barron, Exodus, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Lumen Gentium, Messiah, Moses, News, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |

Readings: • Jer 31:7-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 5:1-6 • Mk 10:46-52 “In the beginning,” states Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, “God made human nature one […]