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by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Christian culture, comfort, Cross, demands, disciple, discipleship, Featured, Living the Faith, News, St. Paul, suffering | 0 |
“It’s time to recognize that Christianity is not a comfortable religion. The doctrines we profess are stumbling blocks, and the demands are uncomfortable.” We have gotten too comfortable. Walking around as baptized Christians, we probably don’t often t…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Christopher Dawson, discipleship, Evangelization, Faith, Jesus Christ, News, Nones, Science, The Dispatch | 0 |
“All religions,” writes Pope Benedict XVI in the first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, “try in one way or another to lift the veil of the future. They seem important precisely because they impart knowledge […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | discipleship, Jesus Christ, martyrdom, Nathanael, News, Psalm 102, Saint Bartholomew, St Ignatius of Antioch, The Dispatch | 0 |
As it often does with the events of the Gospels, the streaming series The Chosen adds to the drama of the encounter between Jesus and Nathanael in John 1:45-51 by employing a bit of artistic […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2022 | decisions, discipleship, Featured, Finances, human respect, News, sacrifice | 0 |
Luke 9:59-62 To another (Jesus) said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “[Lord,] let me go first and bury my father.” But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my […]
by bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, discipleship, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News | 0 |
“The present culture would have us believe that the practice of faith should remain within these four walls of the church building, but that is a tragic error.” There is a section of Luke’s Gospel known as the Travel Narrative. In this…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, discipleship, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News | 0 |
“The present culture would have us believe that the practice of faith should remain within these four walls of the church building, but that is a tragic error.” There is a section of Luke’s Gospel known as the Travel Narrative. In this…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Apostolicam actuositatem, Baptism, Between the Sundays, Confirmation, disciple, discipleship, Featured, kingship, leaven, Living the Faith, Lumen Gentium, mission, News, Second Vatican Council | 0 |
As we finish up looking at our mission as baptized members of the Church, we must remember—baptism doesn’t only make us members of the Church. It incorporates us into Christ. We become part of His Mystical Body. So we are called to share in a measure o…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | Between the Sundays, discipleship, Featured, Knowing the Faith, mission, News, priesthood | 0 |
Over the next three weeks, I want to look at our baptismal call as Christians. There are many effects of the sacrament of Baptism – the forgiveness of all sin (original and personal) and the infusion of God’s life into our soul. We receive the gifts of…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 26, 2022 | children, Confirmation, discipleship, Evangelization, Featured, Holy Spirit, Living the Faith, mission, News, parents, Priority, Sacrament, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
It is Confirmation season in many dioceses throughout the world. I remember a thought I had during my son’s Confirmation Mass several year ago. The church was packed with friends and family of those being Confirmed. The bishop did a wonderful job…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Acts of the Apostles, Between the Sundays, discipleship, Featured, Living the Faith, Love, Mercy, mission, News, Paschal Mystery, Pope John Paul II, Resurrection, witness | 0 |
One word that reoccurs again and again in the opening chapters of Acts – and therefore in our daily Mass readings during these first days of Easter – is the word witness. Notice how Jesus commissions his Apostles: “But you shall receive pow…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Christmas, discipleship, Easter, Gospel, Living the Faith, New Evangelization, News, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
I admit it: I love Disney World. My parents took me as a child and my wife and I have taken our kids a few times. The theme parks make me reminisce about the fun adventures I enjoyed as a young boy and I experience a degree of nostalgic lon…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Apostles, Between the Sundays, called, discipleship, Evangelization, Featured, Great Commission, News, Prayer, prayer life, sent, silence | 0 |
Image: “Appearance of Christ on the Mountain in Galilee” (detail) by Duccio di Buoninsegna | Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The Apostles It may be tempting to skim through the story in today’s Gospel of the call of the Apostles. I…
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