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by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Domestic Church, family, News, Pope Benedict XVI | 0 |
In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI said, “every home is called to become a ‘domestic church’ in which family life is completely centred on the lordship of Christ and the love of husband and wife mirrors the mystery of Christ’s love for the Church, his bride”. The family, based on the sacrament of marriage, has always
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 26, 2021 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Call to Holiness, Daily Reflection, Domestic Church, family, Featured, holiness, Holy Family, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, Nazareth, News, peace, Prayer Life & Liturgy, St. Joseph | 0 |
Image: “The Holy Family with dog” (detail) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons “Jesus sanctified and elevated the family, set apart for noble and holy purpose. So, today, and every day, ask Jesus in…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2021 | Domestic Church, Faith & Spirituality, family, Featured, Marriage & Family, News | 0 |
The first institution in the world ordained by God Himself is that of the family. There are many names for the family. The Documents of the Second Vatican Council define the family as “The Domestic Church”—the Church in miniature. Pope Saint John Paul II stated that the family is the basic cell and building block […]
by bcadmin | Aug 11, 2021 | Catholic men, Culture, Domestic Church, family life, fathers, Featured, gentleman, Masculinity, men, News, podcast | 0 |
In this episode of The Catholic Gentleman, John and Sam discuss the role of a husband and father as the spiritual head of the family. Through the conversation, they challenge men to take a more active role in fostering a vibrant domestic church and provide tangible steps on how this can be achieved. True manliness is not about assuming a passive or subservient role in matters of your family’s faith. True manliness is about having the courage to charitably plan and guide.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2021 | Domestic Church, News, The House of Grass and Sky, Twenty Something | 0 |
Every house, in its own way, is a living thing. It changes as we change. It expands with joy and contracts under duress.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Domestic Church, Eucharist, Fatherhood, fathers, Featured, Holy Mass, News, obedience, podcast, St. Joseph, The Church, Truth | 0 |
In this episode of The Catholic Gentleman, Sam and John discuss why a man is incomplete without religion. We go through the relativistic and consumerist mindset of the modern world, and finish with how Christ’s Church is the only point of truth we as men can trust. In this episode we discuss: How to avoid […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 14, 2021 | Best of Week, Domestic Church, family, Featured, Marriage & Family, News | 0 |
Opening our eyes, we can see that the family in serious crisis. This being the case, as followers of Christ and defenders of the Domestic Church—the family—let us launch a concerted effort to save our children, save our young, by the means of saving our families. Pessimism, cynicism, and skepticism must not reign in our hearts, […]
by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2021 | devotion, Domestic Church, family, Featured, Marriage & Family, News | 0 |
The Domestic Church, the basic cell of society, the first institution ordained and created by God—these are different names describing the same reality: The Family! Pope Saint John Paul II asserted that the way the family goes is the way the world goes. We must pray for the grace to be able to read history […]
by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | 2021, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Domestic Church, Francis X. Maier, Henri de Lubac, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Paul II, mother's love, News, Ordinary Time, post-COVID, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: Our task is to love well, unselfishly, and courageously, in whatever place and time, as God provides. And that is enough.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Call to Holiness, Daily Reflection, Domestic Church, family, Featured, holiness, Holy Family, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, Nazareth, News, peace, St. Joseph | 0 |
The Holy Family The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates the holiness and joy of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph of Nazareth. By celebrating this feast during the Christmas season, the Church wants us to see the important link between the birt…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 15, 2020 | Brendan Koop, Domestic Church, Father Evan Koop, home chapel, Local News, Molly Koop, News | 0 |
On that New Year’s Day — the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — they envisioned family evening prayer and Sunday rosaries in its sun-drenched space. What they couldn’t have foreseen was the role it would play in the midst of a pandemic that would make their own parish temporarily inaccessible, and how that would help bring them closer to each other and their heavenly Father.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 9, 2020 | Between the Sundays, Catechesis, daily life, Domestic Church, family, family life, Featured, Living the Faith, News, Parenting, parents, Prayer | 0 |
“Are our homes places where children learn how to live the Christian life?” In the religious education world these days, we are hearing a lot about the “domestic church” and parents as primary catechists of their children. Perhaps that mig…
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