Category: Scripture
Biden’s Courts Would Endanger Religious Free...
Posted by Father Frank Pavone | Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Election, abortion, America, Catholic Church, Conservatism, Culture, Faith, Politics, presidential election, Supreme Court, Trump | 0 |
Fatima: A Story Too Fascinating to Ignore — ...
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies | 0 |
The Mailbox Hoax and the Real Danger of Election F...
Posted by Janet Morana | Aug 20, 2020 | 2020 Election, America, Media, Politics, Trump | 1 |
Ten Reasons Why Abortionists Should Not Speak for ...
Posted by Father Frank Pavone | Mar 26, 2020 | abortion, Featured, Politics, Supreme Court | 2 |
Advent: The Season of Two Comings
by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 6, 2019 | abortion, Catholic Church, Christmas, Culture, Featured, Scripture | 0 |
Advent is upon us. The word means “coming” and the season focuses first on Christ’s second coming at the end of time, and then on the historical reality of his first coming and his birth at Christmas. When the...
Read MoreGod is Straight
by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture, Education, Family, Marriage, Science, Scripture, Theology | 3 |
Homosexuality is not a state of being because it is not inherent to created nature. It does not participate in the absolute Being of He-Who-Is. Rather, it is a state of privation or of the absence of something that should exist. Homosexuality is a shadow or cavity in the soul.
Read MoreThe Blessing of Holy Days: Landmarks in the Desert
by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 7, 2018 | Featured, Scripture, Spirituality | 0 |
This very morning I caught the not unexpected look of perplexity in the eyes of a classroom of students when I referred to Easter or Eastertide as something ongoing—for a few more weeks in fact.
Read MoreWhy the Wise Men Followed the Star
by Deal Hudson | Dec 23, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Scripture | 0 |
Their experience with the babe in a manger seemed to announce the beginning of a life that would overturn the order of things and challenge the supremacy of all earthly powers.
Read MoreA Parable That Addressed My Sense of Failure
by Caroline Niesley | Dec 3, 2017 | Faith, Featured, Psychology, Scripture | 0 |
Then as I grew up, I met with failure after failure in every part of my life.
Read MoreDivine Destiny: Jean-Claude Larchet on the Church Fathers and the Human Body
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 28, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Featured, Marriage, Saints, Scripture, Spirituality | 1 |
While our culture is obsessed with the body, it cannot be said to love the body.
Read MoreLooking Leviathan In the Face
by Brother Mark Dohle | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured, Scripture, Spirituality | 0 |
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
Read More“Cosmic Praise”: The “Awesome Privilege” of Praying the Liturgy of the Hours
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jul 14, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Liturgy, Scripture | 0 |
Over time, as I prayed more, I experienced the rhythm of praying each of the services of Liturgy of the Hours, or the Divine Office, and I came to understand the flow of the office and why this prayer is so necessary to the life of a Christian.
Read MoreTurmoil in the Catholic Church? The Lord Will Guide and Protect
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 20, 2017 | Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Liturgy, Scripture, Spirituality | 3 |
Leaving the Church, however, is not an option for those of us who believe that the Catholic Church is the true Church.
Read MoreLife’s Storms Compel Us to Him
by Mike Eisenbath | Feb 16, 2017 | Faith, Featured, Scripture, Spirituality | 1 |
A woman inside took shelter in a bathtub, and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub but the woman was not injured.
Read MoreNot Only for Monks: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Monastic Sermons
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 11, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Featured, Homiletics, Literature, Saints, Scripture, Spirituality, Theology | 0 |
The river of life’s pleasures dries up, Bernard tells us, but not the river of abundance that flows from God: For in truth the expectation of the just is not something joyful, but joy itself.
Read MoreA Splendid Translation: Patrick P. O’Neill’s Old English Psalms
by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Aug 12, 2016 | Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, History, Literature, Poetry, Scripture, Spirituality | 0 |
As early as the reign of King Alfred of Wessex, during the years 871-899, the Anglo-Saxons had begun to translate portions of the Bible from Latin into the vernacular. King Alfred, in fact, who had a personal devotion to praying the psalms, is thought to have translated the first fifty psalms himself.
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