The heart and place of prayer
Readings: • Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 • Psa 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18 • Lk 18:9-14 Prayer is one of those mysterious actions that everyone knows about—how many people can honestly say […]
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by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Joseph Dillersberger, News, Pharisees, Prayer, Saint Luke, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 • Psa 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18 • Lk 18:9-14 Prayer is one of those mysterious actions that everyone knows about—how many people can honestly say […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Featured, News, parable, parables of Christ, Pharisees, Scripture Speaks | 0 |
Readings for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, Jesus tells a story about two men praying in the Temple; one is seriously religious, the other a serious sinner. What can they teach us? Gospel (Read Lk 18:9-14) St. Luke, in reporting one of Jesus’ parables, explains its meaning before we actually read it: “Jesus addressed […]
by bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | Catechism of the Catholic Church, God the Father, Jesus Christ, Lazarus, News, parables, Pharisees, prophet amos, Sermon on the Mount, st jerome, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Am 6:1a, 4-7 • Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Tm 6:11-16 • Lk 16:19-31 As we hear the various parables from the Gospel of Luke, it is good to keep two things […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Book of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Gospel of Luke, James Houston, Jesus Christ, Luke Timothy Johnson, News, Pharisees, Saint Paul, Sirach, The Dispatch, wisdom | 0 |
Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | Essay, Exodus, Features, Jesus Christ, merciful father, Moses, News, parables, Pharisees, prodigal son | 0 |
It is vital to grasp the twofold context in which St. Luke situates his account of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The first is the immediate context, which shows that the parable, preceded by […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Mercy, News, Pharisees, St. Augustine, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Is 43:16-21 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 3:8-14 • Jn 8:1-11 Imagine being caught in a most serious and embarrassing sin, then taken into a crowded public area and placed […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Father Andrie, Newly created in Christ, News, Pharisees, Sunday Scriptures | 0 |
John gives us a literary masterpiece this weekend about sight. Let’s take a closer look. We have a man born blind and the Pharisees want to know the reason. Did the man do something wrong or did his parents?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2021 | Adam and Eve, Genesis, Jesus Christ, Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, Marriage, News, Pharisees, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch, Theology of the Body | 0 |
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Annulment, Catholic divorce, Divorce, Gospel of Mark, Hardness of your hearts, Mark 10:2-16, News, Pharisees, Picks, Sunday Scriptures, The Order of Celebrating Matrimony | 0 |
The question that the Pharisees posed to Jesus in Mark 10:2-16 is one which still comes up regularly today, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2021 | Apostle Paul, covenant, Jesus Christ, Legalism, Moses, News, Pharisees, Saint Benedict, The Dispatch, The Law | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, September 1, 2018 […]
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Anthony Esolen: Political theater is merciless, often purely imaginary – talismans and taboos. The trick is to stay on its blind side.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Benedict XVI, Jesus Christ, John's Gospel, News, Nicodemus, Pharisees, Romano Guardini, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for March 11, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Lent […]
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