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Headlines Short Term Memory Loss: Remembering to Pray, Hope and NOT Worry By by Tara K. E. Brelinsky (News Consortium) Zebulon, NC | February 23, 2014 As for me, I was just remarking to my husband that I've made good progress in a particular area of my faith life. To be sure he assigned me proper credit, I pointed out that although we've been in our slow season for his business I haven't once fallen apart when bills sat unpaid. Maybe it was too prideful, but I thought I deserved a little pat on the back for having finally learned my lesson in trusting without constraints. My husband obliged me with a smile and an agreeable nod (since his leadership fueled my progress he probably deserves some credit here, too.) Continue Reading... Jesus Does Not Issue Impossible Demands, But Rather Commands Us to Love as He Loved and to Become Like God By Deacon F. K. Bartels | February 23, 2014 To be perfect is both a command and a promise. We become perfect in becoming like God. Such a sublime gift is made possible by the Son of God who became man, that we may be justified before God, that we may receive the Spirit of God, that we may share in the divine life of God. Yet while God does the divine work, we must do the human work by following Jesus Christ who commands us to live a life of authentic, Christian discipleship and love. Continue Reading...  Fr. Randy Sly: Pope Francis Extends a Hand of Love Across the Tiber to Pentecostal and Evangelical Protestants By Fr. Randy Sly | February 23, 2014 I can just imagine the electricity felt in the room when these Christian leaders from a completely different face of Christianity saw the Holy Father and heard his voice, speaking right to them. Having spent over 30 years in Protestant ministry, I know the separation that has existed and continues to exist between that world and the Catholic world. Pope Francis addressed it head on. Christian unity begins with love. Not by laying down the gauntlet and challenging issues that divide but first come together on the basis of what we have in common. Continue Reading... Our Heart Longs for God: Reflection by St. Augustine Calls Us To a Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 23, 2014 But we too can encounter Christ in reading Sacred Scripture, in prayer, in the liturgical life of the Church. We can touch Christ's Heart and feel him touching ours. Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we truly become Christians. And in this way our reason opens, all Christ's wisdom opens as do all the riches of truth. Therefore let us pray the Lord to illumine us, to grant us an encounter with his presence in our world, and thus to grant us a lively faith, an open heart and great love for all, which is capable of renewing the world. Continue Reading... The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter - It's not about furniture By Fr. Randy Sly | February 22, 2014 We are celebrating the unity we have together as we are in communion with our Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ. This feast is especially significant this year as the Chair will be vacant in less than a week. Continue Reading... Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Woman Who Casts a Shadow By Deal W. Hudson | February 23, 2014 Having never been to a major Marian shrine, I didn't quite know what to expect. Some years ago, in the summer of 2004, I made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. I went there, like other pilgrims, to ask for Her protection during a hard time in my life.There is no more important Catholic destination, or place, in the Americas. Only a few kilometers from the heart of the city, the shrine contains the image of Mary given to Juan Diego through an armful of flowers. Though Her importance to Latinos is well known, Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Lady for all the Americas. It was well past time for me to pay my respects, and I needed Her. Continue Reading... New York State Senator Tim Kennedy: A Morally Incoherent Catholic Denies the Right to Life By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 22, 2014 For anyone to say that he or she is a faithful Catholic and to be pro-abortion/pro-choice rights is totally inconsistent with Catholic teaching, which is clearly articulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.Practicing Catholics who claim they are nurturing their children in the faith must teach their children that abortion is intrinsically evil, that human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his or her existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person, among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. Continue Reading... Making a Good Lent: A Time to Choose By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 20, 2014 I look forward to Lent. It is a time of spiritual housecleaning, taking inventory, emptying myself and, progressing in the life of faith by discovering who I can become in Jesus Christ, for the sake of others. It is an invitation to enter into the desert with the Lord and there, to do battle with the world, the flesh and the devil. It is a time to acknowledge my disordered appetites and obtain the grace, the divine life, mediated through the sacraments, to make progress in overcoming their negative effects.Too often we associate repentance with some kind of wrong- headed self hatred. To the contrary, for those who have been schooled in its lessons, the way of voluntary penitence and conversion becomes the path to freedom and happiness. Continue Reading...
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