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by bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | All Saints, Catholic Watchmen, Church Triumphant, Eucharist, forgiveness, Justice, Mercy, News, Serve like the saints, St. Teresa of Kolkata | 0 |
We go to the saints like we do our friends and family, so we do not have to be loners when it comes to living the faith as God calls us — to teach, provide, protect and lead. Those holy men and women whom we celebrate come the first of November — the solemnity of All Saints —compel us to emulate their example, giving us ways and means to answer the call to serve others diligently and prayerfully.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Between the Sundays, Featured, forgiveness, Justice, Mercy, News, parable, prodigal son | 0 |
This Sunday’s Gospel continues some of the themes we saw in last week’s second reading: true freedom, justice, and forgiveness. The long form choice of the Gospel includes what is perhaps one of Jesus’ most famous parables, the father and his two sons….
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Canada, Featured, forgiveness, News, Pope's Canada trip, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2022 | Australia, Church in Oceania, forgiveness, lead, News, World Meeting of Families | 0 |
A couple talks about radical forgiveness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2022 | 2022, Columns, forgive us our trespasses, forgiveness, Lord's Prayer, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Forgive Us Our Debts", News, Randall Smith, Reconciliation, Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, rights v. duties, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
One way of getting at what is objectionable in certain forms of individualism is to think about our lives in…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, forgiveness, Missouri, News | 0 |
Jeff Ferguson, who was Catholic, was executed March 26, 2014, for the Feb. 22, 1989, abduction, rape and murder of Kelli Hall in suburban St. Louis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Ezekiel, Featured, forgiveness, God's Love, Living the Faith, Mercy, News, repentance, sin, Sinner, wicked | 0 |
In the first reading today, the Lord lays out his heart of mercy and justice. He loves all of us, the wicked and the righteous. God wants to show us mercy when we sin; he wants to forgive us. But repentance and a firm purpose of amendment is required. …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, Egypt, forgiveness, Lent, News, Return to God | 0 |
One of the challenges we Catholics face is the way in which our liturgical calendar almost becomes like white noise in the background.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Father Jacques Philippe, Featured, forgiveness, Hope, News, Pope Benedict XVI | 0 |
We have heard it said that forgiveness is necessary not for the offender, but for the one offended. Yet most of us struggle to accept this at face value, because it’s insufficient. When we are the ones hurt by another person, it’s not enough to believe that letting go of that hurt will somehow grant […]
by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Admiration for pope, forgiveness, Joe Biden, News, Pope Francis, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope Francis “is a man who has a great empathy. He’s a man who understands that part of his Christianity is to reach out and forgive,” U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Rome Oct. 31.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Dives in Misericordia, Featured, forgiveness, John Paul II, Mercy, News, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Saints | 0 |
His expectations may have seemed intense, but so was his mercy. I remember hearing a powerful homily by Bishop Barron on the excessive demand of God and the extravagant mercy of God. We have a God who calls us to be a perfect, but also a God who welcom…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | contrition, Encountering the Word, forgiveness, Mercy, News, Old Testament, Psalms, Scripture | 0 |
Encountering the Word — Your Daily Bible Verses Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! (Psalm 51:1-2) Print …
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