With Easter being so late this year, we have had a flurry of inspiring activities crammed back to back into these last few weeks: the beautiful celebration of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, with eight days of Easter right behind them, the ordination of our seminarian Patrick Blenman as a deacon and more. Flowing […]
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As we celebrate the eighth and last continuous day of Easter today (the end of the “Octave”), we focus on the mercy of Christ. The Church has always been about the mercy of Christ of course – that’s central to our faith – but Pope St. John Paul II placed a special emphasis on its
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We have a real treasury of Catholic prayers which keep our spiritual life anchored and structured: the Lord’s Prayer; the Hail Mary; Acts of Faith, Hope, and Love; and more. But it is also important to pray with Scriptures and engage the imagination. One of the best ways to do that is to put ourselves
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The first law included in Terry Barber’s book: How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual for Catholic Evangelization is: Keep it simple. Jesus often connected to people in familiar ways. He spoke in stories using farm life, sowing seed, trimming plants, chopping trees, working in a garden. Jesus used examples from everyday
As we enter into this Holy Week this Palm Sunday, I wanted to share with you some reflections on the key days of the liturgical events that we celebrate this week because the mysteries they encompass are the root of our whole life in Christ. The first concerns Good Friday – the pivotal moment of
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Terry Barber wrote an excellent book on evangelization: How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual for Catholic Evangelization. Get yourself a copy today! Terry has 40 years of evangelization experience. Among other things in his book he teaches the eight laws of effectively sharing the Faith: Keep it simple. Keep him or
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We are entering into the season of Passiontide – the “home stretch” of the Lenten season that includes the last full week of Lent leading into Palm Sunday and the Holy Week it begins. The stark visual reminder of this season is the traditional practice of covering all of the statues and images in the
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People will ask you for your faith story. It is helpful to take some time now and write down your personal testimony. Everyone has a story. How did you come to the Faith? Why are you Catholic? What is God currently doing in your life? What were some of your concerns when you came into
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