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St. Thomas Aquinas and Christology

Thomas Aquinas is known as one of the greatest thinkers in the history of the church. He was a prolific writer, and writings are still widely read today. When it comes to Christology Aquinas had a lot to say, and his writings on Christology can be read in the third part of his Summa Theologica and... (www.catholic365.com)

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Treatment for Anemic Christians

Knowing that Jesus is our antidote for sin and failure is a critical aspect of Christian spirituality. If we neglect it, we will soon grow spirituality anemic and weakened by sin.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 342 – The Angel with the Small Scroll

In today’s reading, another angel appears. This angel stands astride the whole earth with his hand up to heaven. It is unclear whether this figure is, in fact, an angel or whether it is the Lord himself. The angel has a “face like the sun” as Jesus did at the transfiguration. Also, the angel is ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Humanitarian Interventions and the International Public Law: A Closer Look on the Responsibility To Protect-Doctrine (R2P)

In the debate about the question if, when and how humanitarian interventions can afford peace military action is ambitionally taken into consideration due to cases of failed or rogue states in which ethnic conflict let to violence and the harm of human rights.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

God will shatter the pint-sized expectations of what His followers can do if they would learn to bring Him what they have already been given.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Saint Joseph Terror of Demons

I was pondering the state of the world today, thinking about how we had gotten to where we are. As I prayed and sat in the chapel, I thought about all the rage I see in society. I thought how it seems to be coming from every direction. God whispered, “I made them male and female.” I thought about... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Practical Guide for Daily Prayer

In answer to a recent letter asking me how to pray, I sent back nine prayers that I composed that have been a great help to me over the years. They are an attempt to incorporate Catholic teaching into daily prayer. It seems that the receiver found them very useful and so did her friends. I thought t... (www.catholic365.com)

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Four Types of Counterfeit Faith

There are may things in life besides elevator buttons for which there is no adequate substitute. One of them is authentic faith – the charismatic gift of faith that assures us our prayers will be answered. This God-given and God-focused certitude admits of no substitutes. Surrogate forms of faith ma... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 341 – Confirmation in the Book of Revelation

In today’s reading, we see some of the plagues and punishments released on the world. The fifth trumpet blows and the fiery pit is open. In reading, the chapter we are given fantastic descriptions of the “locusts” that spread across the earth. What are these fantastic creatures? I think it is fair... (www.catholic365.com)

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Blessed Maria Bolognesi; Mystic, Stigmatist, Visionary, and Victim of the Demonic

On October 21, 1924, an out-of-wedlock child was born and given the name, Maria. At the time, Maria was not assigned a surname. That was because her birth father, (himself an illegitimate child) refused to wed Maria’s mother and left her. Fortunately for Maria, the most influential person in young g... (www.catholic365.com)

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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

St. John reminds us that Jesus did not come to condemn but to save. And while God’s love is dependent neither on our reception of it nor on our recognition of him as the giver, we are still called to recognize his presence in our daily lives.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Queenship of Mary

After reading the above excerpt in Genesis, I began to wonder why Eve was speaking to the serpent at all. After all, the serpent was her enemy. The answer is perhaps because Eve didn’t recognize her enemy. She simply didn’t know he was her enemy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Most Important Question in the World

A few months ago, Pope Francis denounced “fake news,” which is the widespread distortion of the facts, often used to manipulate public opinion and promote a particular agenda.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Tests of Spiritual Maturity

Our growth into the spiritual maturity that brings insight into this great secret of “Christ in me” is a gradual process. How can we gauge our progress? Let me suggest a few criteria.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 340 – Prayer is a Weapon of God

Some amazing imagery in today’s reading. When people read Chapter 8 (and going into chapter 9) they often focus on the blowing of the 7 trumpets and he devastation they wreak upon the earth. However, look how the chapter starts: When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven... (www.catholic365.com)

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As Father Ignatius gave out Communion to the queue of parishioners walking up the centre aisle he noticed two youngsters, both aged about eighteen or so, coming towards him. He had not seen them in church before and assumed they were visitors to town. As they came to him in turn, they both held out ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

In this gospel, we have Nicodemus who is a very learned man, strong in his beliefs and convictions. Then along comes Jesus who is asking him to think differently.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Way of Saint James

The Lord has been speaking to me a lot over the past several months about “The Way of Saint James.” I thought maybe God was speaking to me about taking a pilgrimage to Spain. He often shows me the starry sky. But this morning, pondering the readings for this Palm Sunday and the Passion of Christ,... (www.catholic365.com)

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What Is A Parent To Do? Praying for our Troubled Children

Pre-teens, teens and even adult children addicted to drugs, having sex, involved with Wicca, listening to dark to sometimes even evil music, the occult and other dangerous activities; what is a parent to do?... (www.catholic365.com)

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The World's Greatest Secret

We Christians are privy to the world’s greatest secret – a “secret that for ages past was kept hidden in God” (Eph 3:9). Paul tells the Colossians that “this secret which has been kept hidden for ages and generations is now disclosed to the saints [believers]” (Col 1:26), but he reminds the Romans t... (www.catholic365.com)

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