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Earlier this month, we celebrated the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. This feast often passes by with little notice, but that is especially true as it fell on a Sunday (October 2) and was thus superseded by the celebration of Sunday Mass and the Eucharist. However, the saints often felt gratitude to their guardian […]
What is wrong with our world? If you were to make a list right now of what is wrong with our world, what would you put on that list? What would be on the top of that list? There are many things that we might at first list off—abortion, the breakup of the nuclear family, […]
Like many cradle Catholics, I grew up praying the Guardian Angel prayer daily with my family. It was my favorite prayer because it was the shortest (and therefore the easiest to learn), the most sing-songy (which filled my poet heart), and the most lucid to my imagination. Every time I said the words “Ever this […]
by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2021 | Angels, Catholic art, Catholic News Service, immigrants and refugees, News, St. Peter's Square, Vatican | 0 |
A life-sized bronze sculpture of migrants and refugees crowded onto a boat has stood in St. Peter’s Square for more than two years, but just before Christmas a small QR code was placed on the boat’s stern to give onlookers information about the work.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 28, 2021 | Abortion, Angels, Blessed Virgin Mary, Christmas, Feast of the Holy Innocents, Featured, Herod, Holy Family, innocent human life, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, Magi, martyrdom, Martyrs, News, Prayer Life & Liturgy, preparation, pro-life, prolife, Satan, St. Joseph, surrender, trust | 0 |
Image: “The Flight Into Egypt” (detail) by Carl Spitzweg | Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons On the fourth day of our Christmas celebration, the Church reminds us that not everyone is joyful; that there exist those who are not of goo…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 25, 2021 | Angels, Blessed Virgin Mary, Calendar & Seasons, Christmas, Featured, Holy Family, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Merry Christmas, Nativity of the Lord, News, Shepherds, St. Joseph | 0 |
“I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) Merry Christmas! I love holidays. I love family. The two just seem to go together, don’t they? Some holidays are joyful gatherings, some not so much. We are all too human, as the saying g…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Angels, death, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Death came looking for her like a friend, toward the end of a very full day. She peacefully fell asleep while joyfully looking toward the future. Death had not been able to hold back her only Son in her arms. It did not hold back the Mother of God either. Mary had hardly gone to […]
by bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Angels, Daily Quote, Indifference, News, Saints, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.” (St. M…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | Angels, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, St. Hildegard of Bingen | 0 |
Praise and Heavenly Music “Where were you,” God asked Job, “when I founded the earth . . . while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4, 7). The angels invite us to sing in praise of creation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that […]
by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | Angels, Daily Quote, Eucharist, Holy Communion, News, Saints, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “If Angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion.” (St. Maximilian Kolbe) Image: Juan de Juanes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Print this entry
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by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Angels, Best of Week, Featured, guardian angels, News, Orthodoxy, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Dear Father Kerper: A friend of mine, who is a very devout Catholic,always talks about her so-called Guardian Angel. I heard about these angels when I was a child. Now that I’m an adult I regard them as legends or myths made up to make children feel safe. Are Guardian Angels real? Is there anything […]
by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Angels, Annunciation, Archangels, Featured, News, Prayer, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The first time we find the term “evangelization” in Scripture is in the Gospel of St. Luke, and the first evangelizer is the same angel who appeared to Daniel in the Old Testament: the archangel Gabriel. Gabriel appears as the messenger of the Most High, bearing the good news of salvation in two annunciations — […]
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