Today, in society, with the ease of accessibility to pornography, dating websites, chat rooms, drugs and other vices, we can hide behind a character of our creation and separate ourselves from the Law of Virtue. We can easily put our morality and spirituality in a box and escape in...
The Bible doesn’t say a lot about Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus. In many ways, the Holy Spirit, the Church and Mary are the same topic. What you say about the Church you can also say about Mary. Mary is the icon of the Catholic Church. The Holy...
“No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.” (CCC, 683) Jesus is the Word of God who breathes the Holy Spirit allowing us God’s grace to awaken faith in us, offering us a new life in the Holy Trinity. We recognize that the Holy Spirit...
The Apostles were witnesses to the ministry of Jesus. Not a lot is known about Jesus’ early life aside from the narratives of his birth and during his adolescence in the temple. It’s important to note, Jesus’ public ministry may have started at his baptism by John the Baptist...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains “faith is a personal adherence of the whole man to God who reveals himself. It involves an assent of the intellect and will to the self-revelation God has made through his deeds and words (CCC, 176). In the New Testament, the Letter...
We build on the Creed and the faith it professes when we consider creation. We must consider everything around us including the mathematics in the grand design. There are some who will argue that creation itself is self-evolving and that there is no need for the hand of God. ...
The mystery of the triune is the underlying Catholic doctrine on salvation and grace. The Bishops of the Church over the ages have worked to provide unification and clarification on the relationship of the Holy Trinity. God the Father, the Word and the Paraclete existed as three Persons in...
It’s been quite some time since I was visited by Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses, but a few weeks ago a missionary from the JWs came to my door and has come back every week since, except this past Friday. He gives me his literature and insisted I watch a...
Job 1:6-8 “6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the...
Today, we celebrate the birthday of the Church. Pentecost, as we read in the Gospel of John 20:19-23, is when the disciples received the third part of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Many other Christian denominations question the need for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, believing that there is no...