Tag: conversion
Pope Benedict urges wholehearted conversion
Vatican City, Mar 10, 2011 / 07:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- All are called by God to return to him with their “whole heart,” said Pope Benedict XVI at a special celebration for Ash Wednesday. The Pope led a procession across Rome’s Aventine Hill for the first day of Lent. The celebration of the liturgy began… Read More ›
In Christmas messages, Holy Land’s Catholic leaders call for peace on earth
Jerusalem, Israel, Dec 22, 2010 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In their annual Christmas messages, two Catholic leaders in the cradle of Christianity urged prayer and action to bring about lasting peace in the troubled region of the Holy Land. Catholic Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem of the Latins and Custodian of the Holy Land… Read More ›
The prayerful reading of sacred Scripture and “lectio divina”
… The word of God is at the basis of all authentic Christian spirituality. The Synod Fathers thus took up the words of the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum: “Let the faithful go gladly to the sacred text itself, whether in the sacred liturgy, which is full of the divine words, or in devout reading, or… Read More ›
Pope says Church’s mission a duty of every Catholic
Vatican City, Oct 19, 2010 / 01:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI said that World Mission Sunday is an opportunity for Catholics to to reflect on the Church’s mission to bring Christ’s message and love to “every people, culture, race and nationality.” Authentic Christian mission recognizes that God’s love cross all geographical borders and… Read More ›
Conversion
Each Oblates makes a promise to a life of continual conversion. The following is a brief examination of conscience that could be followed each evening before bed. “Concretely, my examen might include the following steps: — I begin with a moment of grateful remembrance of God’s gifts to me this day and ask for divine… Read More ›
What has always been
I think most people get a jump start when little, projecting them out of the Garden of Eden, and suddenly finding themselves naked and vulnerable. An event happens that colors the rest of life, either for good or ill. Perhaps it is the first time we really wake up to the unfairness and cruelty that… Read More ›
I Hate Lent
I hate Lent. Or at least I hate the culture of Lent. After all, it really is a silly season, isn’t it? What is all the talk among Catholics these days? What did you give up for Lent? And of course the answer is many things like, smoking, or candy, or using foul language. For… Read More ›
Consolations from God
There is many a consolation to relieve the torment of a guilty conscience. God is kind and does not let us be tempted beyond our strength. Especially at the beginning of our conversion, he anoints our wounds with the oil of mercy so that the acute nature of our sickness and the difficulty of the… Read More ›
God has the Words of Eternal Life
We who were made in the form of God but have been deformed by sin can ‘return and be converted to the Word to be reformed by him and conformed to him’. ‘Who would not be amazed at the love of God in recalling someone who has spurned him?’ —and yet God does just that,… Read More ›
Conversion and Humility
One of the early experiences on the way to conversion is the sense of being trapped in sinfulness. Half-desiring an escape but not perceiving any possible means of release. For the eye of the mind is unable to fix itself firmly on what it had so fleetingly glimpsed. It is subject to the constraint of… Read More ›