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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured, Marriage, marriage and family, matrimony, News, St. Raphael, Tobias, Tobit |
One of the most charming and instructive Wisdom stories in the Old Testament can be found in the Book of Tobit, which is couched in between the Books of Nehemiah and Judith. Only fourteen short and easy reading chapters, the book of Tobit serves as an invaluable literary tool to teach, inspire, encourage, correct, motivate […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Airports, Americas, Bogota, Catholic news, Colombia, Diocese of Fontibón, El Dorado International Airport, News, News Briefs, Religious persecution, rosary |
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Denver Newsroom, Sep 7, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA).
A large group of people prayed the rosary inside the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, asking that the Catholic chapel locate…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured, Hope, News, St. Francis of Assisi |
The Church, marriage, the family, as well as society in general are experiencing a crisis of grave proportions. Many are feeling a sense of hopelessness. What is critically needed, everyone would agree, is hope. But we must put something under our hope to make it realizable. The hope we need is not a mere wish. […]
A meeting of the "Synodal Way" in Frankfurt, Germany in February, 2022. / Synodaler Weg/Max von Lachner
CNA Newsroom, Sep 7, 2022 / 06:31 am (CNA).
Shortly before the next assembly of the German “Synodal Way,” one of the founders conf…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Domestic Church, family, News, Pope Benedict XVI |
In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI said, “every home is called to become a ‘domestic church’ in which family life is completely centred on the lordship of Christ and the love of husband and wife mirrors the mystery of Christ’s love for the Church, his bride”. The family, based on the sacrament of marriage, has always
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Rome Newsroom, Sep 7, 2022 / 04:24 am (CNA).
God can speak to us in the unexpected moments of our lives if we learn to listen well to what he is telling us in our hearts, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
“I will give you a piece of advice: beware of the unexpected,” the pope said Sept. 7 at his weekly public audience.
“Is it life speaking to you, is it the Lord speaking to you, or is it the devil? Someone,” he continued. “But there is something to discern, how I react when faced with the unexpected.”
Francis’ general audience was again in St. Peter’s Square Wednesday after it was held inside the Vatican’s Paul VI auditorium in August to avoid the worst of the summer heat.
The pope opened and closed his encounter with the public by riding the popemobile around the square. The audience marked his second week of catechesis on the theme of “Discernment.”
As part of discernment, the pope encouraged people to reflect on their reactions to even small, unexpected circumstances, such as the surprise arrival of one’s mother-in-law.
“I was quiet at home and ‘Boom!’ — my mother-in-law arrives; and how do you react to your mother-in-law? Is it love or something else inside? You must discern,” he said. “I was working well in the office, and a companion comes along to tell me he needs money: how do you react? See what happens when we experience things we were not expecting, and there we can learn to know our heart as it moves.”
Pope Francis said knowing how to really listen to your heart is an important part of discernment in making a judgment or decision about something.
“We listen to the television, the radio, the mobile phone; we are experts at listening, but I ask you: do you know how to listen to your heart?” he asked. “Do you stop to ask: ‘But how is my heart? Is it satisfied, is it sad, is it searching for something?’ To make good decisions, you need to listen to your heart.”
To illustrate his point, the pope recalled the story of the conversion of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier enamored with stories of knights and chivalry who was forced to confront his future happiness after he was badly injured in battle.
Bored while his leg was healing, Ignatius read stories of the saints and the life of Jesus when other books were not available to him.
Francis quoted from Ignatius’ autobiography, in which the future saint wrote about himself: “‘When he thought of worldly things’ — and of chivalrous things, one understands — ‘it gave him great pleasure, but afterward he found himself dry and sad. But when he thought of journeying to Jerusalem, and of living only on herbs and practicing austerities, he found pleasure not only while thinking of them, but also when he had ceased.’”
“In this experience we note two aspects, above all,” the pope said. “The first is time: that is, the thoughts of the world are attractive at the beginning, but then they lose their luster and leave emptiness and discontent; they leave you that way, empty. Thoughts of God, on the contrary, rouse first a certain resistance — ‘But I’m not going to read this boring thing about saints’ — but when they are welcomed, they bring an unknown peace that lasts for a long time.”
He emphasized that “discernment is not a sort of oracle or fatalism, or something from a laboratory, like casting one’s lot on two possibilities.”
Francis also said that some of life’s big questions often arise after “we have already traveled a stretch of the road in life.”
Sometimes, we can get stuck on one idea and end up disappointed, he pointed out, adding that doing something good, such as a work of charity, can get us out of that rut by bringing us joy and happiness, feelings which can lead to thoughts of God.
The pope also shared a piece of wisdom from Saint Ignatius: to read the lives of the saints.
“Because they show the style of God in the life of people not very different to us, because the saints were made of flesh and blood like us, in a narrative, comprehensible way. Their actions speak to ours, and they help us to understand their meaning,” he said.
Sometimes, he added, “there is an apparent randomness in the events of life: everything seems to arise from a banal mishap — there were no books about knights, only lives of saints. A mishap that nonetheless holds a possible turning point.”
“God works through unplannable events, and also through mishaps,” he said. “Mishap: What is God saying to you? What is life telling you there?”
At the end of his general audience, Pope Francis expressed his closeness to all mothers, and “in a special way, to those mothers who have children who suffer: those who are sick, those who are marginalized, those who are imprisoned.”
“A special prayer goes to the mothers of young detainees: let hope never be lacking. Unfortunately, in prisons there are many people who take their own life, at times also young people. A mother’s love can save them from this danger. May Our Lady console all mothers distressed by the suffering of their children,” he said.
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Read MoreTwo Jesuits were recently murdered, and two others injured, in a mountain community in northern Mexico; a local drug gang is suspected in the attack. Other members of the order remain in the area and are protected by military escorts.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Cardinal Grech, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, World News |
Maltese Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, has said he views the open letters on the Synodal Path as a “public denunciation” in an interview with Herder Thema. The Synodal Path has come in for considerable criticism, amid warnings from the Vatican and fears about a schism, but the prelate said
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The conclusion of a recent book published by the Pontifical Academy for Life is not the result of a different evaluation of the purpose of the marital act but of a radically different view of what constitutes the moral goodness or evil of any action.
“We no longer believe that the current government has the capacity to restore security,” said Bishop Peter Nworie Chukwu of Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State (map), in reference to the rule of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in of…
Read MoreThe Roman newspaper Il Messaggero, citing a leaked document from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), reported that Cardinal Oscar Cantoni of Como, who became a cardinal in August, convinced Pope Francis early in his papacy to overturn …
Read MoreBishop Alex Lodiong of Yei, a city of 260,000 in South Sudan, described the dire situation in his region of the nation, two years after the official end of the South Sudanese Civil War.
“There are street raids and robberies by armed men, kill…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Is it okay for Catholics to engage in speculative investing? Or is it making a profit without adding any value to it, which St. Thomas Aquinas calls cheating?
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Artificial intelligence, Consistory, Contraception, Knights of Malta, lay governance, Metaverse, News, South Africa, The Dispatch, The Great Resignation |
Contraception Contradiction – “In the recent volume Etica teologica della vita: Scrittura, tradizione, sfide pratiche (Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges), the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) proposes a…
Read MoreReading 1 1 COR 7:25-31
Brothers and sisters:
In regard to virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord,
but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
So this is what I think best because of the present distre…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Archdiocese of New York, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Maryknolls, Military chaplains, News, saints and martyrs, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, US Archdiocese for the Military Services, Vietnam War |
On the 55th anniversary of his death in Vietnam, Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno was remembered at a Mass celebrated in his hometown in a chapel that bears his name.
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