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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
I started off Lent with great gusto, as many of us are inclined to do, with a robust checklist of commitments. Besides fasting from certain foods, I decided to participate in the 40 Days in 40 Bags decluttering challenge. I’ve done it before, and it gives me a good jumpstart on spring cleaning as well […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | earthen vessels, Featured, fire, Holy Spirit, In the Spotlight, interior life, jars of clay, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Scripture |
The Light is Hidden, But Never Extinguished Many of us might remember the great battle in the Book of Judges between the Midianites and Gideon’s Israelite forces. Gideon had instructed his soldiers to each carry a trumpet and a cla…
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I was recently preaching a retreat on Psalm 23 when I stressed the point that if God is truly our shepherd as we say He is in this psalm, then we should really see ourselves as helpless and weak sheep, completely dependent on Him for everything. This is in contrast with seeing ourselves as independent […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality |
All of us are called to become saints. How do we know? Jesus commanded us: “Be holy as your heavenly Father is holy.” (Mt. 5:48) In other words: Become a saint! Most saints have not been officially canonized but are anonymous, unknown except by God alone. Given that this is a serious command given by Jesus Himself, to […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Commentary, News |
The observation of this year’s Lent finds the world under an unprecedented global quarantine. A coincidence of course, but a…
The post The Origins of Quarantine in Lent appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Daily Readings, News, Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent |
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 Psalms 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 John 5:1-16
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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | In the News, News |
North American College Rector Fr. Peter Harman has confirmed that the decision to send students home had been made “in…
The post U.S. seminarians in Rome ordered home appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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“A fasting of this kind—and of course it would have to be open to the Church’s guidance and not arbitrary—could…
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Read MoreHe must in some way cross or dive under the water, which is the most ancient symbol of the barrier…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | In the News, News |
In the past week alone, more than 3,000 people have died in Italy after contracting the coronavirus. Among the dead,…
The post 60 Italian priests dead from virusCourtney Mares, Catholic Herald appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | 2020, Abortion, Aristotle, Born-Alive Survivors of Abortion Act, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, COVID-19, David Hume, Hadley Arkes, liberal hypocrisy, News, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, The Catholic Thing, The Virus – and Other Moral Hazards |
Hadley Arkes: In COVID-19 debates, liberals demand the protection of human life yet remain unconcerned about 860,000 yearly killings through abortion.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
Around the pool near the Sheep Gate are large numbers of blind, lame and paralyzed people. These are the ailments that we Christians often suffer from: — blindness — we cannot see where Jesus is leading us or where we should go in life; — lameness and paralysis — we can see but have difficulty […]
Read MoreAccording to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel. His feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on September 29 which is also the feast of Sts. Mic…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
Catherine Ulfsdotter was born in 1331 in Sweden to Bridget (later St. Bridget). She was the fourth of eight children. When Catherine was only fourteen years old she married Eggard von Kurnen. Because Catherine was deeply devoted to God, she convinced her new husband to join her in a vow of chastity. Catherine’s mother, Bridget, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Prayer should be continuous. It is the soul breathing. Just as we have to breathe continuously, so we must pray continuously. Prayer is the deep interior movement of which we are barely conscious.”
-Dom Augustin Guillerand, The Prayer of the Prese…
Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate on Monday failed for the second straight day to advance consideration of a stimulus package to respond to the new coronavirus.
The…
Read MoreBy Jonah McKeown/CNA. | BERGAMO, Italy — Mario Enzler’s mother always wanted a big family.
“My mother wanted twenty children, but got only me,” Enzler said with a laugh.
Enzler, a former Swiss…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
To help us during struggles and challenges in life, Our Lord has given us the great Theresas: St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, Doctor of the Church; St. Teresa of Avila, the great Carmelite reformer, Doctor of the Church; St. Teresa Benedicta of the Church, philosopher and martyr; St. Teresa of Calcutta who embodied[…]
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Read MoreBy John Grondelski | As I’ve previously written, Father Donald Haggerty’s Contemplative Enigmas focuses on the spirituality of prayer, with major prominence given to the role of silence, both ours to hear God as well as God’s,…
Read MoreBy Jim Graves | Vocations are a top priority for diocesan bishops across the U.S., with some dioceses having strong numbers and others struggling. I spoke with bishops, seminary rectors and vocations directors in different parts…
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