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Nov 1, 2023 · On the Solemnity of All Saints, Pope Francis speaks about the call to holiness and how it is both a gift from God and a journey to be made together with our brothers and sisters and all the Saints who are companions along the way. By Thaddeus Jones.
Sep 24, 2021 · The Vatican released photos of the meeting, which occurred via Zoom. If you are not familiar with what a Zoom meeting looks like, imagine reenacting the opening of “The Brady Bunch” but for ...
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Those who hang out in Protestant circles probably have a quick, easy description of the gospel: That Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins. That is not untrue – but also not the whole story. Jesus did not take on human flesh merely as a substitution for the rest of us. It’s not as if He suffered and struggled so that we could avoid suffe...
I think one of the reasons we tend not to pay much attention to Jesus’ admonition to proclaim the gospel to every creature is that we over complicate the task. We think we need a PhD or a Masters degree in order to share the faith with others, which is not at all true. Just as there is more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way ...
The Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Laityhad this to say of every Catholic’s call to spread the gospel: The Church was founded for the purpose of spreading the kingdom of Christ throughout the earth for the glory of God the Father, to enable all men to share in His saving redemption, and that through them the whole world might enter into a r...
Nov 16, 2022 · Converse in prayer. Pope Francis recalled that many of our prayers are also somewhat like this: "they are requests for favours addressed to the Lord, without any real interest in Him", he said. It may seem strange, to ask the Lord how he is, said the Pope, but it is actually "a beautiful way to enter into a true, sincere relationship with Him ...
Nov 15, 2021 · The process of conversion is thus: God takes the initiative: “The Lord gave to me to begin to do penance”. God leads the penitent to places where he would never have wanted to go: “God led me among them, the lepers”. The penitent responds by accepting to place himself at the service of others and by using mercy with them.
Feb 13, 2024 · What does Joel have to say to our leaders today, where they're faced with shortage of food, shortage of water in Europe, a shortage of gas because of the war in the Ukraine. What does the Lord ...
