When attempting to discern what the Holy Spirit is doing in our lives and in the lives of those around us, it’s important to know the things that only He can do. Jesus and Mary model for us that when we see any of these things happening, we know it is an invitation to cooperate […]
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The heaviest burden of man is not things and circumstances, it is himself. Man, himself, is a burden, because he does not want to be who he is before God and others. “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate [Counselor, Helper, Comforter, Intercessor, Paraclete] that He may abide with you
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While those with “equipping gifts” prepare others’ heads and hearts for the work of ministry through discipleship, those with “service gifts” do the hands-and-feet work of ministry. Most of us have several spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit arranges in “clusters” that help us minister effectively to others in the Church. In this episode, we
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The fire that fell from God’s presence onto the Old Testament altar is the same fire spoken of in the NT as the fire of purgatory which purifies, or sanctifies, us now on earth or after death (in the absence of mortal sin). Popes Gregory and Benedict XVI, along with such mystic Saints as Catherine
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The most common cop-out against God, religion, or Christianity is “all the evil in the world.” What about the evil in me? Doesn’t the evil in me deserve acknowledgement and punishment? Doesn’t my selfishness help cause and perpetuate “all the evil in the world”? God allows suffering partly because humanity’s evil works it and deserves
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Most of what we consider “life” is sandwiched between two periods of inactive helplessness – birth/infancy and death. Weakness and dependence straddle human life. Helplessness, then, cannot be inferior to independence. This punctuation at both ends of my doing seems designed to teach, and even warn me, that neither the beginning nor the completion of
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“Do not consider this genealogy a small thing to hear: for truly it is a marvellous thing that God should descend to be born of a woman, and to have as His ancestors David and Abraham” (St. John Chrysostom, Homily on Matthew). Study Audio This week’s LOVE exercise (interactive scripture meditation, or lectio divina)
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[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] S – Sin not. T – Tell God about it. O – Offer the right sacrifice. P – Put your trust in the Lord. (Psalm 4:4) For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word,
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“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters
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Nothing but things essential for us are revealed to us about the Mother of God: the fact that she was wed to the Holy Spirit and bore Christ into the world. Our crowning joy is that she did this as a lay person and through the ordinary daily life that we all live; through
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