Christ the King
At Jesus’ Nativity, wise men asked, “Where is He Who has been born King of the Jews?” Herod wanted to kill Him. Thirty-three years later, the Jews finally acknowledged their King. How? Gospel (Read Lk 23:35-43) Today, on the Feast of Christ the King, St. Luke describes a scene from Christ’s Crucifixion. As Jesus moved through His earthly ministry, […]
When Christ came to save and redeem mankind, He did not do so by halves: He loved His own who were in the world, and He loved them to the end, we are told in the thirteenth chapter of St John’s Gospel. He desired to give everything He had and everything He was for our […]
God enters our lives often and in many ways, but usually in the disguise of a coincidence. We are often left wondering whether a special event in our life was from God or whether it was the result of chance. Such an event provides the grist for an endless debate between a theist and an […]
If there were ever an action book present in the Bible that moves quickly from one scene of action to the next, it would have to be The Acts of the Apostles. The Apostles arrested and thrown in jail, a young man persecuting Christians and throwing them in jail, his conversion through a powerful light […]
By May 1778, Voltaire was dying. The Enlightener received a dignified and modest letter from a priest, the Abbé Gaultier, who was a Jesuit before the suppression. It seemed there was always a Jesuit about Voltaire, a biographer remarked, from his earliest school days to playing chess at Ferney. “When Voltaire heard the word ‘Jesuit’ […]
Sacred Scripture tells us that God has obtained the Church with His own blood (cf. Acts 28:28). According to the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Church is born primarily of Christ’s total self-giving for our salvation, anticipated in the institution of the Eucharist and fulfilled on the Cross. “The origin and […]
According to National Geographic, scientists have identified more than 1.2 million species of animal and plant life. What makes this statistic remarkable is not what we know, but what we don’t know—according to the same source, some 7.5 million species (or 86% of all life) are still unknown to us (source). When I discovered this […]
It is hard for us to believe truly that we are going to die. Perhaps, believing in the reality of our own death marks the passage to adulthood. “The difficulty to conceive of our own deaths is perhaps some kind of survival mechanism to prevent it from actually happening” (Samuel, 2019). If we can somehow […]
If you have ever discussed the faith with any Protestant friends or relatives, there is a good chance you’ve heard this argument before: Since we Catholics believe that the Eucharist is truly the body and blood of Jesus Christ, not just a symbol, it is tantamount to cannibalism. And since cannibalism is obviously wrong, our […]
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