I have been emphasizing throughout Lent that the spiritual discipline necessary to conform our hearts to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ is something of a “three-legged stool.” That is, just as you can’t sit on a stool with only one or two legs but need all three legs to balance, you can’t have a […]
The largest relative growth of our Church happened in the first three centuries. Charles Spurgeon, the famous 19th Century Baptist preacher, noted the radicality of the early Christians and wrote this antidote against cultural relativism today: “The fact is, the most of us are vastly inferior to the early Christians, who, as I take it,
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The events of recent weeks in my life have been a powerful wake-up call and reminder for me to write about preparation for an unexpected death. After a year-long battle with cancer, I lost a dear friend I have known for over 25 years, way back to the time I was still praying about whether
Our God is an evangelizing God. From the moment that humanity fell in sin in the Garden of Eden God formed a plan to redeem humanity through the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ, the Messiah. (Acts 2:23, 3:18) From the moment the apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit they started proclaiming
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There are many reasons why we need to bring the good news of the Gospel to the unchurched. I will just mention three reasons for evangelization here. Our God is an evangelizing God, evangelizing is required for our salvation, and we are working under a time constraint. Jesus commands us in the Great Commission (Matthew
In today’s Gospel we read St. Luke’s account of the Transfiguration of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who reveals just a glimpse of His glory for an instant to His three “right-hand men” – the most privileged of His Apostles, Peter, James & John. Three of the Gospel writers record this event. St. Luke has the
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The first Sunday of Lent always begins with the famous passage of the Lord’s temptation by Satan in the desert. That’s the one where the Devil tells the Lord to turn stone into bread after he has been fasting for 40 days. The story takes a lot of unpacking – and some Bible study –
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