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Taking time to absorb and enjoy the good in our lives can bring us a deep sense of gratitude and healing. When we make an effort to habitually relish any positive experience we encounter, whether big or small, we gradually overcome the negativity bias in our brains that makes us focus more on any unfavorable […]
by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | daily life, Featured, Gratitude, joy, life, Living the Faith, News, Surrender & Strength, thanks, thanksgiving, Virtue | 0 |
“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G. K. Chesterton I remember at a very young age the constant urging of my parents to always say “thank you” in response to any kindness or…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Blessing, Depression, Featured, God's Will, Gratitude, News | 0 |
“Just count your blessings,” they’d tell me whenever I would share my suffering. They’d label it complaining or griping, so I learned quickly to stay quiet and answer, “I’m fine” whenever someone asked (but didn’t really want to know), “How are you?” “It’s important to be positive,” they’d say whenever I told them I was […]
2kgs 5:14-17; 2Tm 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19 “If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” The message that God offers to us through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ, is this: God’s faithfulness to us does not depend on our own faithfulness to Him. St. Paul captures this message in […]
by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Between the Sundays, blessings, Featured, giving thanks, Gospel, Gratitude, Living the Faith, News, thanksgiving, Virtue | 0 |
“Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” (Luke 17:17–18) The readings this Sunday are a lesson in gratitude. What is our reaction to the gifts of God? Are we taking …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2022 | God's creation, Gratitude, News, Only Jesus | 0 |
My earliest memories are of living in an apartment with my parents in a row house on Pittsburgh’s South Side, a stone’s throw from the mills that had attracted generations of immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. For a child, South Side was urban living at its best.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2022 | atheism, blessings, Catholic Church, Creator, Faith, Featured, God, Gratitude, Jesus Christ, Knowing the Faith, life, Love, News, Power, Prayer, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
Human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins. The existence of God the Creator can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason, even if this knowledge is often obscured and di…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2022 | Concern, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Featured, Gratitude, Local News, MCCL, Mississippi, News, Overturn of Roe v. Wade, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
As news spread of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion June 24 in a case that stemmed from Mississippi’s law barring most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Minnesota’s Catholic bishops and others responded with gratitude and concern.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 16, 2022 | Archdiocesan synod, Commission for Consecrated Life, Father Solanus Casey, Father Stanley Rother, Gratitude, James Miller, Lay Advisory Board, National Eucharistic Revival, News, Only Jesus, prayers, Presbyteral council, Synod Assembly | 0 |
As I reflect on our recent Synod Assembly, the words that our patron, St. Paul, addressed to the Philippians come to mind: “Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God” (Phil. 1:3). I have been overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude each time I think of how God has blessed this local Church through the willingness of so many to be part of our Archdiocesan Synod. The liturgies, presentations, discussions and voting were all manifestations for me of the presence of the Holy Spirit and of the rich blessings that God has bestowed upon us.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Gratitude, News, Prayer, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
“Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” Saint Francis de Sales Dear Blessed Mother, You may wonder why I am writing this letter to you. As I reflected on you during Eucharistic ad…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 24, 2021 | Coming of the Messiah, Gratitude, Holy Spirit, Love, News, Over the river and through the woods, Sunday Scriptures, Thanksgiving Day | 0 |
For the first two decades of my life, the song “over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go” meant, among other things, being treated to a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner courtesy of my maternal grandmother.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 24, 2021 | Gratitude, Lisa Mladinich, News, Spirituality, thanksgiving | 0 |
Did you know that practicing gratitude can make you more physically and psychologically resilient and improve your relationships? It can make you live longer, think more clearly, sleep better, and forgive more readily (see CDmag.net/2P9qJsB). In short,…
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