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by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, News, Prayer, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Prayer is the lifting up of our minds and hearts to God, to praise His goodness, to thank Him for His kindness, to acknowledge our sins and plead for pardon, to ask His aid for our salvation, and to give glory to Him. Note the words mind and heart. Not every thought of God is […]
by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Best of Week, Book Review, COVID-19, Featured, medical ethics, News, Subsidiarity | 0 |
How do we move ahead in a post-pandemic era? And what are the lessons to be learned from our challenging recent history? Catholic psychiatrist and bioethicist Aaron Kheriaty has thought a great deal about these questions and his answers are found in his just-released book The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State […]
by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, News | 0 |
I am so grateful to you as a faithful reader of Catholic Exchange. I may not know you personally, but one thing I do know is that you love your Catholic faith, and you’re appreciative of the inspiring articles we bring on a daily basis so that you may continue to grow in it. Like me, I know […]
by bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | Best of Week, Fatima, Featured, Mary, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
In an earlier essay on Catholic Exchange, I shared “Why We Need Fatima’s Message Today.” As we bring to a close the centenary jubilee commemorating Mary’s apparition in Fatima, Portugal spanning the months of May-October 1917, I believe it important to revisit the messages received by Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, because they propose for us a […]
by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Best of Week, death, Featured, Lives of Saints, News, Saints | 0 |
“Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands, and yourselves like men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when be cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching.” Luke 12:35-37 This […]
by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2022 | Best of Week, confession, contrition, Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Dear Father Kerper: In one of your letters, the Act of Contrition came up in the question and in your answer. I’m embarrassed to say that I have no idea what the Act of Contrition is. What is it, and why is it so important? Please don’t be embarrassed by asking. Your great question reminds […]
by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, Lent, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Scripture | 0 |
We should not lose heart during this second half of Lent. Rather, we should encourage one another to continue the effort to gain control over our minds and our bodies for God’s glory. And, let’s never forget that this process always and only begins with His divine grace: we can do nothing on our own.
by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, lorenzo scupoli, News, perfection, Prayer & Spirituality, spiritual combat, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |
If you wish, beloved in Christ, to reach the height of perfection and, by drawing near to your God, to become one spirit with Him, you must before all else gain a true idea of what constitutes genuine spiritual perfection. There are many who have believed spiritual perfection to consist exclusively in outward mortification, in […]
by bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Annunciation, Best of Week, Featured, Mary, News, Old Testament, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
Behind the Annunciation stand several familiar Old Testament figures like Eve, Sarah, and Hannah. But there is another set of hidden figures who foreshadow Mary’s encounter with the angel. They include a warrior judge, an assassin widow, and a runaway slave. ‘The Lord is with you’ The first thing the angel tells Mary is, “The […]
by bcadmin | Mar 21, 2022 | Best of Week, Crucifixion, Featured, Mass, News, Prayer & Spirituality, sacrifice, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
To understand the Mass, we must first understand what a sacrifice is. It is the offering of a victim by a priest to God alone, and the destruction of it in some way to acknowledge that He is the Creator and Lord of all things. The word sacrifice means “something made sacred.” It is a […]
by bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, News, Old Testament, Prayer, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
The Hebrew word for prayer, palal (pronounced: paw-lal’), does not appear until sometime later, in Genesis 20:7. The word is spoken by God in a dream to Abimelech urging him to return Abraham’s wife so that Abraham might pray for him. Abimelech does this and Abraham prays as prophesied 10 verses later. But it is […]
by bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, Lives of Saints, Mother Teresa, News, Saints, Social media | 0 |
St. Mother Teresa was, and still is, an oddball to modernity. She had no filter, work-life balance, nor interest for self-care. She served the poorest of the poor in India and sacrificed her life to help those most in need, so much so that when donations of shoes came to her sisters, she always chose […]
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