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by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News | 0 |
I recently had a conversation on phone with an octogenarian relative of mine who was learning how to use his first android cell phone. He mistakenly muted his phone during the conversation and did not know how to unmute it. He could not hear me speaking to him but I heard him muttering under his […]
The Latin term adoratio originally meant a gesture of reverence made toward a worthy person or object, before whom one would bow slightly, touching the object of reverence with one’s right hand, while with one’s left hand wafting a kiss (ad os) toward the recipient of the adoration. We, however, must see this concept in the context […]
by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News | 0 |
Ever wonder what prompted the Evangelists to write their Gospels? In Sunday’s Gospel, we find out. Why did St. Luke decide to write another narrative, when others already existed? See that he was writing to “most excellent Theophilus.” This was possibly a Roman official who perhaps agreed to finance the publication of his work. St. Luke was the only […]
Last September, my husband and I went on a beach trip. It was the second time in our 11 years of marriage that we had gone on a trip alone that wasn’t a hospital stay. It was a few short weeks after I discovered I had miscarried our fifth baby, Bridget. I was still overcome […]
by bcadmin | Jan 19, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Fulton J. Sheen, Love, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was a man for all seasons. Over his lifetime, he spent himself for souls, transforming lives with the clear teaching of the truths of Christ and His Church through his books, radio addresses, lectures, television series, and his many newspaper columns. As a much sought-after lecturer, his topics ranged from the […]
by bcadmin | Jan 18, 2022 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Prayer, prayer life, spiritual growth | 0 |
Prayer is the key to salvation. St. Augustine says that he who prays well lives well; he who lives well dies well; and to he who dies well, then all is well. St. Alphonsus reiterates the same principle: “He who prays much will be saved; he who does not pray will be damned; he who […]
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It is fully accepted that junk food tastes good but isn’t good. Its bodily effects may teeter into immorality when we consider how it harms our health, and how preserving our health for the sake of others is no small matter. Fat fathers (and I’m not lightweight here) deal with that nagging realization that if […]
by bcadmin | Jan 17, 2022 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, John Hardon, News, Spiritual Warfare, St. John Vianney | 0 |
Scripture reminds us, “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). Christ chose the Twelve (Apostles) to do the same. From start to finish, the life of Christ on earth reveals how the devil pursued Him — from Herod to Judas. The ancient serpent is […]
On August 28, I wrote a blog post called “God Works in Mysterious Ways” in which I discussed how building a deck on my house was positively affecting my mental and physical health. At the time of the blog post, I had been working on the deck for a month, roughly the same time that […]
by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News | 0 |
At the start of His public ministry, Jesus attended a wedding in Cana. Why was this the perfect setting for Him to work His first miraculous sign? Indeed, it does. Recall that the prologue of this Gospel evokes the Creation: “In the beginning was the Word” (Jn 1:1). St. John wants us to be thinking about the early […]
by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2022 | consolation, desolation, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News | 0 |
I know indeed how to live in humble circumstances; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things, I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need. —Philippians 4:12 I’ve often thought about this passage from […]
by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News | 0 |
As a seminarian studying in Rome, the Postulants formed a group to get to know and love Mary, the Mother of God. Our group read a short but excellent apostolic exhortation by Pope Paul VI: Marialis Cultus—the Cult of the Virgin Mary. It took us several sessions to end our sharing and discussion on the […]
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