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Headlines Pope Francis Writes to Families Seeking Prayer for the Synod on the Family By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 26, 2014 Tomorrow, I will awaken next to my beloved. We will soon celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary. The day will burst into a flurry of activity with a unique ritual pattern. To the untrained eye, it may look hectic. But with the eyes of domestic faith, my wife Laurine and I will see the deeper purpose. All those years of raising children, and now trying to help raise grandchildren, we have come to comprehend the mystery hidden in the routine of family life. There is almost a liturgical sameness to the pattern that emerges after so many years- by practice, developed spiritual purpose, and just plain ordinary human repetition. But it can all become transforming when lived out in Christ. It is here, where the rubber hits the road for most Christians. It is here that the universal call to holiness, in all its real, earthy, incarnation is lived out-in all of its humanness and ordinariness. Continue Reading... Deal W. Hudson: The Sound of Students Laughing, At Me By Deal W. Hudson | February 26, 2014 During my first year of teaching, I would spend two nights a week at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta and two nights at the Phillips Correctional Facility in Buford, GA. I had to pass through considerably more steel gates at the penitentiary than in Buford, where the only obstruction was a high wall topped with barbed wire. It wasn\'t too long before I found out those walls were not high enough to stop bags of drugs being thrown over every evening. Continue Reading... Why A Former Evangelical Loves the Rosary By Fr Dwight Longenecker | February 26, 2014 The journey of Christian healing is never over, and the rosary has been my link back to that same power that constantly seeks to draw me back to Christ. I am also convinced that praying with the rosary has been one of the great magnets that finally drew me into full communion with the Catholic Church. Continue Reading... Thomas Aquinas: An Example for a New Generation of Apologists By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 26, 2014 St. Thomas Aquinas knew that all truth finds its source - and its fulfillment - in the One who is Truth Incarnate, Jesus the Christ. In this way, he was a pioneer of a New Evangelization during the second millennium and a model for our efforts to in the Third.He is truly a model to emulate; and example for a new generation of apologists. 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... 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...
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