As a Catholic, how do we defend our faith when someone tells us that Catholicism is not based on true history and has copied pagan traditions? [Read More]
Announcing the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, declaring that Jesus is divine, celebrating the deep humanism of Christianity, and explaining the indispensability of the Church as the mystical body of the Lord. How do we practically do all this? [Read More]
The religion revealed by Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, is not an individual, private religion. It is not limited to a personal relationship to Jesus. [Read More]
Seven disciples are together in a boat and they are fishing. The number seven is significant because it symbolizes the completed cycle of time. [Read More]
What's the flesh? The flesh is the inner child inside of us and we often recognize the voice.. You may have heard it this morning when the alarm went off. [Read More]
St. Paul uses unequivocal language in describing the nature of the Eucharist when he describes the sin of those who do not recognize Christ’s body in this sacrament and therefore receive him unworthily. [Read More]
Excerpts from Fr. Barbour's homily for Corpus Christi Sunday about the Eucharist being the most perfect symbol that contains the things it symbolizes. [Read More]
Being in the boat with Jesus, even if the waters are terrifyingly tempestuous, is better than jumping ship. God is in the boat and I am not a good swimmer. [Read More]
How many times do we panic and spend countless hours worrying without ever asking for the Lord’s help? And when we do turn to him, how often is it only because we’ve reached the end of our rope? [Read More]
The question, then, is not how evil and suffering is compatible with an all-good, all-powerful God (it obviously is) but why God allows it. [Read More]
The Rosary is a contemplation of the stages of the life of Jesus the Saviour with his Mother Mary and it is a weapon that protects us from evil and temptation. [Read More]
Many Christians don’t understand a Catholic’s deep devotion to the Virgin Mary, and may often think that praying to her is either pointless since you can go directly to God, or it’s idolatry. [Read More]
The earliest testimony we have about the Resurrection comes from St. Paul’s letters, and they describe Jesus undergoing a bodily resurrection from the dead. [Read More]
Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God. Do we attach ourselves to worldly things at the expense of the love and honor that we owe to God? [Read More]
Jesus’ message in the parable cautions against exclusive beliefs about the kingdom of heaven. God invites us to his feast, giving us his salvation. Yet he asks us to repent for our sins. [Read More]
In this parable, the landowner leases his vineyard to tenants and sends his servants to collect the portion of the harvest that the tenants owe to him. The tenants act with selfishness and go against the will of the landowner. [Read More]
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