Anticipating heaven, humbly
“God in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.”
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by bcadmin | Aug 26, 2022 | Anticipating heaven, Cana, Featured, Gospel of John, Home for the poor, Kingdom of God, Luke, News, party, Pharisee, Sunday Scriptures, Wedding feast | 0 |
“God in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 14, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Cana, Jesus Christ, News, Pope St. John Paul II, Redemptoris Mater, Romanus Melodus, St. John, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Is 62:1-5 • Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 • 1 Cor 12:4-11 • Jn 2:1-11 The Gospel of John contains some seventeen direct references to signs (semeia), which is St. John’s term for […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Cana, Cana wedding feast, Faith Fundamentals, Featured, Institution of marriage, News | 0 |
The institution of marriage existed before the time of Jesus, and he raised it to the level of sacrament. He did this through his teaching on the ideals of marriage as well as his endorsement of marriage by his attendance at the Cana wedding feast. Moreover, as a child and a young man, he lived with a married couple, Mary and Joseph, and he was greatly blessed by the goodness of their marriage, and he experienced firsthand the beauty of married love.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2021 | Cana, Faith Fundamentals, News, Wedding feast at Cana | 0 |
Jesus attended a wedding feast at Cana at the beginning of his public ministry (Jn 2:1-11). Jesus wanted that couple, as well as every married couple, to have a wonderful life together and to be faithful in their love for each other.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2021 | Cana, Consecration to St. Joseph, Cuppa Joe, Deacon Gannon, Father Don Calloway, Jesus, Josephology, Kelly Wahlquist, News, Patron of a Happy Death, Picks, St. Joseph | 0 |
When asked to speak on the virginity of St. Joseph, I tried to convince Deacon Dan Gannon to switch talks. Deacon Gannon’s talk “Wonder 9: Patron of a Happy Death” (Nov. 2) will be at the Carondelet Center, which the Sisters of St. Joseph own, and I worked as a nursing supervisor at the retirement home of the sisters for years. I have been with many sisters as they experienced a happy death. But, alas, Deacon Gannon did not want to give up a happy death for virginity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | Cana, Featured, Gospel, Intercessor, Jesus, Mary, May, McBrien, News, Notre Dame, obedience, Presence of God, Simple Holiness, Virgin Mary | 0 |
As Catholics, we have a beautiful intercessor, the Virgin Mary, to whom we pray for protection and guidance. During the month of May, one of the two months in which Mary is particularly honored, we ask that her gentle, loving voice help us know the way we are to go in life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 11, 2020 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Cana, Essay, Features, Marian apparition, Marian beliefs, News, Our Lady of Lourdes, Pope Saint John Paul II, St. Bernadette, St. John Henry Newman, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Song of Bernadette | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of […]
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