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Headlines SUNDAY HOMILY: We are the Lepers. Do we Come Back to Give Thanks? By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 13, 2013 It was actually through their leprosy that these men met Jesus Christ. Wow! The dreaded disease that kept them from other human relationships led to their encounter with God and their complete transformation. Have we touched the truth of this mystery? Our Christian faith reveals that even undeserved and unmerited suffering, when joined in love to the sufferings of Jesus Christ, can produce extraordinary fruit within us and around us. Our Christian vocation calls us to follow Jesus; to live as Jesus lives, to love as He loves and to become holy as He is holy, by embracing His plans for our life and living differently because of them. Spiritually we were all lepers, desperately in need of God's mercy. God's mercy came - and always comes - through Jesus Christ. We are now called to become a people who receive and give Mercy - and a people who always come back to give thanks! Continue Reading... Pope Francis and the Devil: Pope Reminds Us The Devil is Real and We are Called to Spiritual Warfare By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 13, 2013 We are living in a new missionary age. Pope Francis is reminding us for good reason that the devil is real. The Evil One hates Jesus Christ and hates all who bear His name and continue His redemptive mission by living their lives in the heart of the Church for the sake of the world. The Christian Way of Life transformed Christianity from being a small sect into becoming the major dominating faith of the age. It transformed the world of the First Millennium and the Second. It can and it will do the same in the Third Millennium. However, we must not forget that we have an adversary. Thank God we have a courageous Pope who continues to remind us of that fact.  Soul, Head and Heart: Cardinal Dolan on the Continuity of John Paul, Benedict and Francis By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 13, 2013 The Cardinal is willing to contend with the opponents of the Church, but he always does so with velvet gloves and without personal animosity. He confounds his opponents with Truth and wins them over with the Love of God. He reveals Jesus, the one whom he serves with fidelity and happiness. At this critical time in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, Cardinal Dolan is a gift to both Church and Nation. He is also a model for all of us; no matter our state in life or vocation. This is a missionary age and we are all missionaries. Continue Reading... Fr. Randy Sly on the Difference Between Clean and Committed By Fr. Randy Sly | October 13, 2013 Often our minds and hearts are equally cluttered with junk. Some of it can even be harmful or evil, as in the case of our gospel reading. Jesus has just encountered a demon which he cast out. He was then accused of doing it through the power of Beelzebul, which is another name for Satan. It would seem from Jesus' insights, that the enemy of our souls doesn't really mind it when we get ourselves spiritually cleaned up. He may even not get too nervous when we go to confession. However, he hates it when we commit ourselves to remaining clean. He detests a soul who decides enough is enough and dedicates himself or herself to holiness. Continue Reading... The House of Harmony: Pope Francis on the Catholicity of the Church By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 13, 2013 During his Wednesday instruction, Pope Francis continued his series on the marks of the Church. He focused on what it means when we profess in the Creed that the Church is Catholic. He offered the sixty thousand pilgrims gathered in St. Peters Square some beautiful insights into the unity of the Church as it is found expressed within legitimate diversity. Pope Francis reminds us that to live in Jesus means to find our home in the Church, a House of Harmony in legitimate diversity. The Church is meant to become the home of the whole human race Continue Reading... Prayer Paves the Path to a New Way of Life By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 13, 2013 The intimate communion the disciples witnessed when they came upon Jesus in prayer can become our lived experience. Jesus reminds us we are adopted sons and daughters of His Father, who is now Our Father. (John 20:17). The instruction which they received as they walked with Him can be realized in our own lives if we learn how to walk with Him daily. The same Jesus who instructed the disciples is alive with us today. He has been raised from the dead. We need the eyes of faith to see Him - and the courage derived from faith to accompany Him. Through grace we are made capable of living an entirely new way of life, beginning right now. In the words of the Apostle Peter, we become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1). All of this can be realized if we learn to pray. Continue Reading... Lord, Teach Us to Pray. The Our Father is the Path to Communion with God By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 10, 2013 What Jesus is teaching is a Way of Life. We can have the same relationship Jesus has with the Father, the intimate communion the disciples witnessed when they came upon Him prayer. The same relationship they witnesses as they walked with Him daily. We also walk with Him daily.From this, and the other accounts of the same exchange, we have been given the beautiful form prayer we were taught as children. It is the prayer we pray at every Holy Mass, the Our Father. However, Jesus is teaching us all much more than one form of prayer, he is revealing to his friends and followers the relationship which is itself the very heart of prayer. Lord, Teach us to Pray. Continue Reading... Pope Francis Calls Christian Marriage a Vocation, Convenes Extraordinary Synod on the Family By Deacon Keith Fournier | October 12, 2013 Right before he boarded the plane to return to Rome from Rio de Janeiro Francis spoke to the young volunteers who had served at World Youth Day. He called them to follow the Lord and respond to their own vocation. Included in his understanding and explanation of what constitutes a vocation was Christian marriage and family life, alongside of priesthood, consecrated and religious life. He called them to all to be revolutionaries:God calls you to make definitive choices, and he has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. God calls each of us to be holy, to live his life, but he has a particular path for each one of us. Some are called to holiness through family life in the sacrament of Marriage  God's Grace and the Atheist: Part II By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | October 9, 2013 Supposing the Pope in his recent interview to Eugenio Scalfari published in the Italian paper La Repubblica stated that a non-believer, someone without faith in God, "could be" justified during his life and die in a state of sanctifying grace and therefore be saved, how does that square with Catholic doctrine? Continue Reading...
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