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by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Featured, memento mori, News | 0 |
2Mc 7:1-2,9-14; 2Thes 2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 I was struck as I watched the video of my father’s funeral some months ago, seeing the coffin being lowered slowly into the grave as the family and friends offered prayers for him. I seriously asked myself then how authentic was my faith in the resurrection of the dead. […]
by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Eucharist, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesus Christ, News, Purgatory, Resurrection, The Dispatch | 0 |
If you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | death, Featured, Illness, memento mori, News, Parkinson disease | 0 |
I had brain surgery this week. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), to be precise. It i the last step of Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease and is only given after all medical (read drug) therapies have been tried and are no longer effective. As brain surgeries go, it is routine; over 150,000 Parkinson’s patients have had it […]
Am 8:4-7; 1Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 “If it is possible, I would give anything to have him back.” This is not a line from a sad love song, at least not one that I know. It is actually a heartfelt prayer that I said to God a few months ago when my father suddenly passed […]
by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | death, Jesus Christ, News, St. lawrence, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. On December 27, 1912, my father was born in Lawrence, […]
Read Moreby 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 18, 2022 | Baptism, death, Egypt, Exodus, Jesus Christ, Lent, Moses, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15 • Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 • 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12 • Lk 13:1-9 When asked why they climb, professional mountaineers often give varied but interconnected reasons. They […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | death, End of life care, Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality, suffering | 0 |
To die well is to be able to reconcile with God and our neighbors, to feel that we have completed our life’s work, and to train those who follow to do the same. But the only thing that really matters is whether you join with God in the Beatific Vision.
by bcadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, COVID-19, death, Grandparents, News, Orphans | 0 |
An estimated 5.2 million children in 21 countries, including the United States, lost at least one parent, a custodial grandparent or a primary caregiver to COVID-19 during the first 20 months of the pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2022 | Archbishop Matteo Zuppi, Church in Europe, death, democracy, European union, funeral, Italy, lead, News | 0 |
Italian-born politician David Sassoli, the late president of the European parliament, has been remembered as a man whose life and political career was spent in the pursuit of an inclusive democracy and the common good.
Read MoreCoronavirus has made us all more aware of our mortality – and that’s a good thing
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | 2021, Anti-Catholicism, apathy, birth dearth, Columns, Culture of Death, David G. Bonagura Jr., de-Christianized age, death, Kennedy family, large families, News, population dearth, Ps 91:14, Selfishness, The Catholic Thing, The Last Acceptable Prejudice | 0 |
David Bonagura: Large families may grow tired of jabs and jeers, but will endure with patience. They seek God’s approbation, not society’s.
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