Prayer and Spiritual Reading That Help Crucify Your Passions During Lent
Together, they help us to turn away from sin and the world and turn instead toward Jesus Christ and heaven.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Mar 12, 2018 | Books, Eastern Church, Featured, Spirituality |
Together, they help us to turn away from sin and the world and turn instead toward Jesus Christ and heaven.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Mar 5, 2018 | Books, Eastern Church, Featured, Spirituality |
The Publicans Prayer Book now bears the distinction of being the most comprehensive Byzantine book for personal prayer available.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 16, 2018 | Eastern Church, Featured, Music |
I have heard no other recording of chant—Byzantine, Gregorian, or Russian—that is more prayerful or contemplative
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 9, 2018 | Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Spirituality |
Our morning prayer reminds us that our fasting from food is worthless if we do not spend more time fighting against our passions.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 4, 2018 | Eastern Church, Featured, Liturgy, Spirituality |
Preparation for Holy Communion should occur every day of a Catholic or Orthodox Christian’s life.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jan 20, 2018 | America, Eastern Church, History |
Like the priests and deacons in Ukraine, my purpose in mission country is to plant seeds and nurture faith. My purpose is to put down the roots of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the soil of new territory, one person and one family at a time.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jan 12, 2018 | Catholic Church, Featured, Popes |
The problem is not that the phrase is confusing, as the pope suggests. The problem is with the inclination today to make everything easy for the lazy.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jan 9, 2018 | Books, Faith, Featured, Friendship, Literature, Poetry |
Stephen Mitchell is a gifted translator, and his translation of Beowulf in verse is meticulous, lucid, musical, and most readable, but is a poor guide to its meaning.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 27, 2017 | Books, Featured, Spirituality |
So in examining ourselves, we must consider the ways we have sought to seek worldly glory and win the approval of others, and we must be rigorous if we are to have any success at this.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 11, 2017 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Featured |
The book, Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars. is the story of those who helped make the United States the standard bearer for religious liberty for the world
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