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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Blessing, Depression, Featured, God's Will, Gratitude, News | 0 |
“Just count your blessings,” they’d tell me whenever I would share my suffering. They’d label it complaining or griping, so I learned quickly to stay quiet and answer, “I’m fine” whenever someone asked (but didn’t really want to know), “How are you?” “It’s important to be positive,” they’d say whenever I told them I was […]
by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Ask Father Mike, Blessing, Consequences, Cursing, Free will, News | 0 |
Q) I have recently been reading the Old Testament and have encountered some things that have troubled me. Among them is the way God talks about blessing those who obey him and cursing those who disobey him. I much prefer the New Testament and how Jesus reveals that God is love and calls us to love him. This just seems like God is coercing people into following him. What do I do?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | Blessing, COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Michael J. Brescia, News, Physically present, Your Heart His Home | 0 |
As evil as the COVID-19 pandemic has been, it has also been a blessing in at least one regard: It has heightened our awareness of the eternal value of being personally present to one another. The human person was created for and only flourishes with personal, in-the-flesh encounter. So COVID-19, with its quarantines, isolation and mask mandates, in its terrible way, heightens the import of embodiment and even more specifically, the Incarnation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2020 | archbishop bernard hebda, Blessing, Coronavirus, Local News, News, senior care facilities, st. Therese of New Hope | 0 |
Sue Schinzel lost her mother, Margaret Strauss, on April 21 to COVID-19.
Strauss, 83, had Alzheimer’s disease and had lived for three years in the memory care unit at St. Therese of New Hope. When she moved to St. Therese, her husband, Thomas, 87, visited her several days a week, until coronavirus-related restrictions that began in March prevented him, Schinzel said. A staff member updated the family each day.
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“Blessed be God, Blessed be His Holy Name, Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man…” At the conclusion of a Holy Hour, with the Blessed Sacrament exposed and adored, the priest or deacon gives the benediction or blessing upon the people with the most Blessed Sacrament, which is Jesus Himself. Then, before reposing […]
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