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by bcadmin | Oct 31, 2022 | All Saints, Celebration, Featured, festivity, halloween, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
It can be easy in our culture to forget that Halloween is none other than the beginning of the Feast of All Saints. After all, it is All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve. As with the tradition of Christmas Eve, the Solemnity of All Saints begins at sundown and continues on into the next […]
by bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | Best of Week, Fatima, Featured, Mary, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
In an earlier essay on Catholic Exchange, I shared “Why We Need Fatima’s Message Today.” As we bring to a close the centenary jubilee commemorating Mary’s apparition in Fatima, Portugal spanning the months of May-October 1917, I believe it important to revisit the messages received by Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, because they propose for us a […]
by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, Immaculate Conception, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Sts. Joachim & Anne | 0 |
Jesus said: “By their fruit you will know them. A good tree brings forth good fruit, but a bad tree brings forth bad fruit” (Mt 7:16-17). These words of the Greatest Master and Teacher of the world can most appropriately be applied to Jesus’ two grandparents, the mother and father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Their […]
Years of difficulty finally led me to spend yesterday morning looking at Director of Religious Education jobs, Catholic schools, houses, and parishes in the Archdiocese of Denver. Like many Catholic families, I found myself wanting to move our family to an area with a rich, vibrant, orthodox, and fruitful spiritual environment. I want to live […]
by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
A religious sister who had just completed a few days of silent retreat in our community said to me, “Your place is so peaceful and convenient for prayer. What about you, are you a peaceful person?” Her interesting question reminded me that it was possible for us to live in peaceful settings and still lack […]
by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
A religious sister who had just completed a few days of silent retreat in our community said to me, “Your place is so peaceful and convenient for prayer. What about you, are you a peaceful person?” Her interesting question reminded me that it was possible for us to live in peaceful settings and still lack […]
by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
It was Passion Sunday. Christ entered into Jerusalem and the Passion narrative had just been read. The priest mounted the step and stood at the ambo in order to begin preaching his homily, but then, a medical emergency struck one of his spiritual children in the pews. He saw almost immediately something was seriously wrong. […]
by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Easter, Featured, Fulton J. Sheen, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
One of the greatest soul-strengtheners (and soul-crushers) of our Catholic faith is the constant mental gymnastics it takes to exist with the gift of free will. It is a difficult task to be “in” the world, but not “of” it, so much so that in order to remain a faithful Catholic while still participating in […]
by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
“Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord, the King of Israel. Hosanna in the highest!” (Mt 21:9) Why is it so universally accessible? The answer must be because it is a truly human drama, with the kinds of characters, action, plots and subplots, emotions, twists and turns that […]
by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Featured, G.K. Chesterton, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spirituality, Psalms | 0 |
Hear my voice, Lord, when I call;have mercy on me and answer me.“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”; your face, Lord, do I seek! Do not hide your face from me;do not repel your servant in anger.You are my salvation; do not cast me off;do not forsake me, God my savior!Even if my father and mother […]
by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Easter, Easter Vigil, Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Solemnity | 0 |
The Holy Season of Lent reaches its high point or climax with the celebration of Holy Week. Then the heart of Holy Week is the Easter Triduum—which comprises Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and that very night the Easter Vigil Mass introduces us into the celebration of the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord and […]
by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality | 0 |
In 1996, when Mother Teresa’s health was deteriorating, she was often in the hospital. One of the priests who attended to her said that she always wanted to have the Blessed Sacrament in the room with her, and she was given that grace. In the book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, the same priest […]
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