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by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | All Soul's Day, death, Featured, memento mori, News | 0 |
2Mc 7:1-2,9-14; 2Thes 2:16-3:5; Lk 20:27-38 I was struck as I watched the video of my father’s funeral some months ago, seeing the coffin being lowered slowly into the grave as the family and friends offered prayers for him. I seriously asked myself then how authentic was my faith in the resurrection of the dead. […]
by bcadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | death, Featured, Illness, memento mori, News, Parkinson disease | 0 |
I had brain surgery this week. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), to be precise. It i the last step of Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease and is only given after all medical (read drug) therapies have been tried and are no longer effective. As brain surgeries go, it is routine; over 150,000 Parkinson’s patients have had it […]
by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, anxiety, Between the Sundays, fear, Featured, Good Shepherd, kingdom, memento mori, News, surrender, the surrender novena, trust | 0 |
“Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). My favorite Scripture verse opens this Sunday’s Gospel. It is both comforting and challenging at the same time. I can see the warmth in Jesus’…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2021 | Between the Sundays, death, Featured, four last things, Heaven, Hell, judgment, Living the Faith, memento mori, News, penance, sacrifice, sin | 0 |
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2020 | death, From the Magazine, meditation, memento mori, News, Spirituality, Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble | 0 |
by Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP I have a skull on my desk Several years into my time in the convent, I decided to acquire a little ceramic skull for my desk, and I started to meditate on my death regularly. I have been meditating daily on my inevita…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2020 | Art & Culture, Coronavirus, Easter, Featured, memento mori, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
We are now in what is called the “Great Fifty Days” of the Easter Season. As we know, every Sunday is really the celebration of Easter, what the Church calls the “Paschal Sacrifice,” the saving death and resurrection of Christ. During these great fifty days, we are meant to recall and be refocused on the […]
by bcadmin | Mar 19, 2020 | memento mori, News, Those Catholic Men | 0 |
By: F. Breen When a victorious general returned to Rome, there would be a great celebration where the people would treat him as almost a god. In that time, there was a tradition. A slave or servant would ride along with the victorious general and repeat to him “memento mori”, which means “remember your death”. […]
by bcadmin | Feb 19, 2020 | ashes, death, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Lent, memento mori, News | 0 |
“Remember that you are dust and into dust you shall return.” – Eccl. 1:20 “I’ve had this premonition,” my dad began musing as my family gathered together to share a holiday meal, “that when I die, it will be sudden, like in a car accident or heart attack.” My father has always been introspective and […]
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