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Headlines MONDAY HOMILY: Sincerity is Essential for Discipleship By Fr. Stephen B. Reynolds | August 19, 2013 Despite his faithfulness to The Law, the youth of the Gospel was unfulfilled. His obedience was a good beginning, but it could not satisfy his inner longing for holiness. He is looking for something more, and he goes to Jesus to find it. Continue Reading... Guest Opinion: Sweet Cakes by Melissa and the Secularist Liberals' Quest to 'Rehabilitate' Christians By Matt Barber | August 19, 2013 The Oregonian reports: "A same-sex couple who requested a cake for their wedding in January but were refused service by a Gresham bakery have filed a complaint with the state, alleging Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against them based on their sexual orientation. Christians have a right to own a "successful business" in Oregon, so long as they don't, well, be Christian. Continue Reading... SUNDAY HOMILY: The Happy Priest - Why Does Jesus Cause Division? By Fr. James Farfaglia | August 19, 2013 To be Catholic means that we embrace the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church without tearing out the pages that we do not agree with. Continue Reading... Let the Children Come to Me. The Way of Spiritual Childhood is the Way of Freedom By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 19, 2013 Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." After he placed his hands on them, he went away. (Mt. 19:13-15)  Exchanging the Truth of God for a Lie: Rejecting Marriage and Gender are Connected By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 17, 2013 Western culture needs conversion, from the inside out. We need a Christian revolution of the heart. Christians need to once again take the eternal and timeless values of the classical and orthodox Christian worldview and knead them again into the loaf of western culture. They are the yeast which alone can revivify a western civilization which has lost it's soul. There is a clash of worldviews currently underway in the West. It involves competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. Both cannot be true. Classical, orthodox Christians are now contending with the hostility of a secularist relativism which claims there are no truths. That is what makes Christians so increasingly countercultural. Continue Reading... The 21st Century War Against Moral Discernment By Deacon F. K. Bartels | August 17, 2013 Some think silence is best in the face of grave sin. But that is a serious error. We are not helping our brothers or sisters by withholding the truth. Souls can be lost by silence taken as approval. If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar (1 Jn 1:10), which means we all need correction, admonishment and support. A dose of wisdom is light to the soul. The idea that we harm a friend by speaking the truth is perhaps one of the greatest errors of the age. Continue Reading... FRIDAY HOMILY: From the Beginning It Was Not So By Fr. Randy Sly | August 18, 2013 In years past, I usually approached this text based on HOW one is to approach marriage and divorce. There is a new wrinkle now introduced into the general discussion of marriage - WHO is being married, particularly regarding the so-called union of same-sex couples. Continue Reading... The Plight of Coptic Christians: Egypt Engulfed in Violence, Christians in the Crosshairs By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 17, 2013 The news coming out of Egypt is horrible. The flames of hatred and division are engulfing this ancient biblical land. Forces aligned with the current government and those aligned with the ousted Muslim brotherhood shoot at one another while paying no regard for anyone else, including those who have the most ancient claim to that beautiful land, the Christians of Egypt.Reliable reports from Fr. Rafic Greiche, a spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, indicate that seven Catholic Churches and fifteen Coptic Orthodox and Protestant churches were attacked in Cairo and Upper Egypt. Continue Reading... The Assumption or Dormition of Mary Reveals the Meaning of the Christian Life By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 16, 2013 What came about in bodily form in Mary, the fullness of the godhead shining through Christ in the Blessed Virgin, takes place in a similar way in every soul (Gregory of Nyssa) We are invited to empty ourselves and be filled with the very life of God. The Lord desires to come and take up residence within us and be borne into a world that hungers for His love. Mary shows us the way. She heard the promise, believed, was filled with grace, and conceived the Lord who is Love incarnate. Continue Reading...
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