Tag Archive for ‘life’
Messy package is life
Life is funny and difficult and wrapped up in one messily garlanded package. It will stay that way for the most part, for things, or let’s say people will not fall into neatly lined up categories or stereotypes. Being a caregiver is a good way to learn about that reality. In everyday life a lot [...]
Alabama Supreme Court recognizes unborn as ‘children’
Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2013 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An Alabama Supreme Court decision recognizing the unborn as persons deserving of legal protections could have significant implications in ending abortion in the U.S., say pro-life advocates. “The Alabama Supreme Court has dealt a massive blow to the constitutional fraud of Roe v. Wade by [...]
Cardinal Dolan contrasts true freedom, ‘culture of death’ in new eBook
New York City, N.Y., Jun 19, 2012 / 04:07 am (CNA).- Society faces a choice between true human dignity, and a false concept of freedom culminating in the “culture of death,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan explains in his new eBook. This inhumane culture springs from “deeply rooted social, philosophical, and ethical tendencies that, [...]
Life of St. Benedict
The Oblates have been studying the Life of St. Benedict. A pdf copy of the classic work written by St. Gregory can be downloaded from this site for the use at the meetings. The original source is of the document is from the Christian Classics Etheral Library which also has epub copies compatible with electronic book [...]
Pilgrimage
If life in fact is really a pilgrimage, well what does that mean? It certainly does not mean that we will have it easy. However, how we respond to reality is important and has deep spiritual significance…. For in fact what makes us more self aware seems to come about when we suffer. I wish [...]
God calls human persons to union with Himself
Whatever I may have written, I think it all can be reduced in the end to this one root truth: that God calls human persons to union with Himself and with one another in Christ, in the Church which is His Mystical Body. It is also a witness to the fact that there is and [...]
He is a Saint (part I)
One John Paul II Priest Recalls the Influence of John Paul the Great Allow me to quickly describe to you my personal experience with the newly beatified pope, whom I was allowed to meet at a general audience when I was 18 years old. As he walked through the middle aisle of the audience hall [...]
Our sin is a happy fault
By falling we have the chance to plumb the mysteries of the divine mercy. Indeed our sin is a happy fault, as the deacon sings during the Easter vigil: 0 felix culpal But this is sin admitted, accepted and confessed, not sin hidden, denied and forced underground. God does not forgive grudgingly; showing mercy is [...]
Falling is a test
After this [God] allows us to fall harder and more grievously than ever we did before — as it seems to us. And then we think (because we are not all wise) that what we had begun has come to nothing. But it is not so. It is necessary for us to fall and it [...]
Search the Scriptures
Search the Scriptures. For you are not mistaken in thinking that you find life in them, you who seek nothing else in them but Christ, to whom the Scriptures bear witness. Blessed indeed are they who search his testimonies, seek them out with all their heart. Your testimonies are wonderful, Lord, therefore my soul has [...]
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