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Headlines Walk the Way of Downward Mobility in the Shadow of the Cross By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 25, 2014 God became the least of these in the Incarnation of His Son. Will we be emptied of ourselves, in order to become men and women for others, conformed to the One who emptied Himself for us? When we do learn to empty ourselves, He comes and takes up His residence within us.Then, we become His arms, embracing the world; His legs, still walking its dusty streets; and His Heart, still beating with the Divine Compassion. We become like Jesus Christ, the One who became the least of these in order to bring us all into the full communion of love. Continue Reading... Deal Hudson: Credo By Deal W. Hudson | February 25, 2014 When the bishops gathered at Nicaea in 325 agreed to their creed, they meant to create boundaries, not to gather everyone under some kind of big tent. These boundaries were defined by clear propositions that could be applied as a standard, a shared orthodoxy, based upon what God had revealed. After all, it was no Greek myth that they had gathered to elucidate, or like Lord Byron, to emulate. These bishops from throughout Christendom had come together for the very first time to say, "this and nothing less than this." Continue Reading... Strong Affirmation of Pope Francis by Cardinal Raymond Burke Shatters the Narrative of Division By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 25, 2014 Pope Francis has clearly reaffirmed the Church's moral teaching, in accord with her unbroken tradition. What, then, does he want us to understand about his pastoral approach in general? It seems to me that he first wishes to have people set aside every obstacle which they imagine to prevent them from responding with faith. He wants, above all, that they see Christ and receive His personal invitation to be one with Him in the Church. The Holy Father, it seems to me, wishes to pare back every conceivable obstacle people may have invented to prevent themselves from responding to Jesus Christ's universal call to holiness Continue Reading... Deal Hudson: A Teacher-Postman for the Absolute By Deal W. Hudson | February 25, 2014 I remembered a maxim about teaching I had read somewhere in St. Augustine: the first rule of any teacher or speaker is to know your students, or your audience. In other words, put yourself in their place and figure out what kind of approach might engage them. Or as the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard put it, find the "point of contact." So I did just that. What lessons did I learn? First, I learned one size does not fit all when it comes to teaching. The student determines the manner in which content will be learned. It's the job of the teacher to figure that out. A teacher needs to be part artist, relying on intuitions and informed hunches about his students. Continue Reading... 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 24, 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...
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