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by bcadmin | May 29, 2022 | Ascension, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, mission, News, witness | 0 |
Years before that first Ascension Thursday, God entered into His own creation as the God-man, Jesus. He came as a humble babe, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. His birth took place in a stable that housed livestock. Little is r…
Read MoreA Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “In the glamour of the Easter, it’s easy to be a follower of Christ. But He is calling us to get to work.” (Joan Watson) Image credit: “Ascension of Christ” (detail) by Benvenuto Tisi, Public dom…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2022 | Ascension, Daily Verse, News | 0 |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11) Print this entry
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by bcadmin | May 29, 2022 | Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, Gospel of Luke, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, News, Resurrection, St Leo the Great, St. Augustine, The Dispatch | 0 |
“You ascended into glory, O Christ our God, and You delighted the disciples with the promise of the Holy Spirit. Through this blessing, they were assured that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer […]
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On Ascension Day, Jesus gives His apostles, a group of men singularly lacking in influence, a worldwide mission. How would they be able to pull this off? Gospel (Read Lk 24:46-53)St. Luke tells us that as Jesus prepares to depart from His disciples and be taken up to heaven, He reminds them that God has […]
by bcadmin | May 26, 2022 | Ascension, Ascension of our Lord, Father Nels Gjengdahl, Newman Center, News, North Dakota State University, rosary, Sunday Scriptures | 0 |
During my years in college, my faith took on a greater maturity than I had known in my youth. One of the ways this happened was in my prayer of the rosary. It was at the Newman Center at North Dakota State University where I experienced the power of the prayer of the rosary — how through a meditation on the mysteries, God could share his love and mercy with me with great intimacy.
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The ache of separation can be unbearable. Nothing is more unbearable to endure than the separation caused by a child’s mother retreating to the basement (alone) to change loads of laundry. “Mommy?!” this panicked cry of my middle child has followed me down the stairs more times than I can count. It has followed me […]
What do Oliver Twist, Annie, and the children from Les Miserables all have in common? The same with Snow White and Heidi. For that matter, also Batman and Spiderman and Superman. Orphans, one and all. Literature and cinema are filled to the brim with them. We love the stories about them because they, in their […]
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 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 20, 2021 | Ascension, Dominican Father Sergio Serrano, Father Dempsey Acosta, La Biblia en un Año, News, podcast, Spanish, The Bible in a Year, U.S. & World News | 0 |
On Dec. 31, nearly half a million people will complete a yearlong journey of reading the entire Catholic Bible with “The Bible in a Year” podcast.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 21, 2021 | Ascension, Eucharist, Incarnation, James T. O’Connor, Jesus Christ, John 6, News, The Dispatch, The Hidden Manna | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, August 26, 2018 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Ascension, Come Together, Come Together prayer sessions, Eucharistic presence, Father Dale Korogi, Healing Our City, Local News, News, North Memorial Health Hospital, north Minneapolis, North Minneapolis parishes, Robbinsdale, St. Boniface, St. Bridget, Trinity Ottoson-Smith, Violence, Violent time | 0 |
Father Dale Korogi, pastor of Ascension in north Minneapolis, brings the joy and suffering in his parish and the broader community to prayer every time he celebrates Mass. A rise in street violence in the last month with stray bullets hitting three victims age 10 and younger has brought suffering to the fore.
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