It’s funny how sometime we get so caught up in things that we fail to notice what should have been obvious all along. Yesterday was September 11. It is a date that will forever be remembered with great sorrow and a profound sense of loss.
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Blessed Be This Beautiful Child
To everything there is a season. To everything there is a reason. Nothing in this world is without purpose. It is not always possible to understand. And yet somewhere deep inside we know, we trust, we believe.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes we see an elderly couple out somewhere, and there is something about the way the old man is looking at his wrinkled wife that tells us to him she is the most beautiful women in the room.
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So often Christians hear “There is no God. If God truly existed, why would He allow bad things happen to good people?” Really – that’s your question. I know people do struggle with the idea of evil existing in a world said to be created by God. The two seem to be in opposition.
Continue reading “A Tragic End to the Forerunner”Celebrating a Heavenly Birthday
Catholic teaching and Catholic Faith is really very simple. Every day strive for sainthood. Is that so much to ask? After all, Christ died for us. The least we can do is become saints to glorify Him.
Continue reading “Celebrating a Heavenly Birthday”Bartholomew the Apostle
Today is the feast day of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, martyr and the patron saint of butchers. As one of the twelve, he was present at the Last Supper and a witness to Christ’s ascension into heaven. Many scholars today believe that Bartholomew and Nathanael from the Gospel of John are the same person.
Continue reading “Bartholomew the Apostle”Hail Mary, Heavenly Queen
Why Catholic? The obvious answer from a non-Catholic perspective would be I was baptized as a baby. What choice did I have? That would be a wrong assumption.
Continue reading “Hail Mary, Heavenly Queen”A Holy Day Indeed
Of all the Holy Days to honor our Blessed Mother Mary, this day means the most to me personally. It was 5 years ago today, on the Holy Feast of the Assumption of Mary into heaven that my baby girl was called to her final rest.
Continue reading “A Holy Day Indeed”A Friday Night Under the Stars
The idea of spending a night sleeping under the stars sounds so romantic. In many ways it is. Imagine looking up into the vastness of the night sky filled with shimmering points of light and realizing how small we truly are compared to the universe.
Continue reading “A Friday Night Under the Stars”The Blessed Feast of Transfiguration
The Transfiguration of Our Lord as witnessed by Simon Peter, James and John is so important to the Christian Faith that it appears in the Gospels of Matthew (17:5), Mark (9:6) and Luke (9:35). It is a revelation that is acknowledged in both the Roman and Eastern rites of the Catholic Church.
Continue reading “The Blessed Feast of Transfiguration”Carry Me on Eagle’s Wings
You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord,
Who abide in His shadow for life,
Say to the Lord, “My Refuge,
My Rock in whom I trust.”
Anne and Joachim and Cowboy Saturday
July 26th is a feast day within the church. Today we remember two very important people who are not mentioned in Sacred Scripture, yet we know they existed.
Continue reading “Anne and Joachim and Cowboy Saturday”Was James the Greater?
To call James, cousin to Jesus and John, son of Zebedee, the Greater might make him sound somehow more important or above the other apostles. He was no more great then James the Lesser. Calling James great was simply a way to distinguish him from the other James.
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Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene. While we all agree that Mary Magdalene was a follower of Christ who was at the foot of the cross and the first to encounter the Risen Lord, much about her remains a mystery that is surrounded by debate.
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Today is the Feast of our Lady of Carmel. In many ways, this dates back to before the birth of Christ, before the establishment of God’s Church on Earth through Saint Peter. As with much of the oral traditions of the Catholic Faith, the Carmelite Order is rooted in Jewish tradition.
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