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Day 92 – Paul, A Roman Citizen

Today we read a short passage of how the crowd of Jews rejects Paul after he tells them that Jesus sent him to preach the gospel to the Gentiles. The resulting fury of the crowd compels the Roman tribune to remove Paul from the Temple. For good measure, he decides to have Paul scourged.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Repentance: Conforming one's life to reality

When Christ began his ministry he announced: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 3:2, Mk 1:15). These first words of the incarnate Son of God are perennial words spoken to all people throughout all time. They remind us that something wondrous yet mysterious is waiting beyond the visib... (www.catholic365.com)

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Handling stress before stress handles you

One of my bookstore finds today is a stress prevention handbook for emergency responders by a psychotherapist who helped in the Oklahoma bombing and other mass disasters.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Food, Faith, and Fellowship

Over the summer I was given the opportunity to go on nine day pilgrimage. While the sites and food were enough to make it memorable, the people on the trip really put it over the top. On paper, it shouldn’t have worked. Our group consisted of 40 people from all across the United States.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Some Plead Ignorance, Others Breed Ignorance

Ignorance comes in two models: culpable and incupable. The former implies malice in refusing to learn what God wants us to know. The latter is not malicious.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Encouraging and helpful quotations from the Bible for your reflection (5)

In this article, you will find some encouraging and helpful quotations from the Bible for your reflection, which can help you in your life. Use these quotations for your meditations, share them with people who need encouragement, and make them part of your daily life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 91 – Paul's Speech in the Temple

Today we read the speech delivered by Paul to the crowd in the temple that wants to kill him. He starts by speaking Hebrew. This is to let the crowd know that he is a Jew. Then he details his bona fides that he studied under the great Rabbi Gamaliel and that he previously earnestly persecuted th... (www.catholic365.com)

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Healing the wounds of the world

How tragic it is to hear news about different wars and terrorism taking place all over the world. Many innocent people are dying daily in these tragic situations.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Ordinary riches can be stolen or lost, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you….unless you choose to give them away.

In two brief parables Jesus tries to tell people what the kingdom of heaven is about: like one who finds a hidden treasure in the field and sells all he owns to be able to purchase the field and like a trader who finds a truly exceptional pearl and sells all he owns to purchase the pearl.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Iuvenes pro Traditione": Mary

When did you enter the Church? Cradle Catholic or convert? Yes, Anglican Rite/Novus Ordo.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

An executive officer at Standard Oil Company, during his daily Bible reading, was struck by the passage of Exodus 2:3, where it states that the baby Moses was set afloat in the Nile in a papyrus basket waterproofed with tar and pitch.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Mass: Introductory Rites

I have always been fascinated with liturgy and have been drawn to it since I was a child.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 90 – Out come the knives

Paul returns to Jerusalem and things have changed. James is there, history tells us he is now the Bishop of Jerusalem. However, none of the other Apostles are mentioned. Again we know from history that they have left the nest and are spreading the gospel far and wide.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Evil Personified

In the past, as I penned different tenets of doctrinal thoughts pertaining to spiritual and theological aspects within the Church, the idea of exploring anything pertaining to Satan and the evil he conjures into our senses always had me stop short.... (www.catholic365.com)

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

The parable about the weeds in the wheat is pretty self-explanatory though. The only additional insight into this parable might be to realize that only Jesus knows the weeds from the wheat, because sometimes what looks like a weed, is actually a plant that is not fully developed yet.... (www.catholic365.com)

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This Filipino Teenager was Martyred "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith)*

Pedro Calungsod was born in the Philippines sometime during July of 1654. He was a migrant child who was taken in by the Jesuits and educated at their boarding school in the Visayas section of the Philippines. This is where he learned his catechism and how to speak Spanish.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Under Niagara's Waters

On the American side of Niagara Falls, the colossal sheet of water takes a dizzying leap over a precipice to crash 160 feet below.... (www.catholic365.com)

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First Steps Off a Cliff

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, has genetically modified a one-cell embryo to cure the genetic defect of mosaicism. He used a technique called CRISPR and “fixed” the bad gene.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 89 – Whatever happened to…?

Today we are told of Paul’s journey back to Jerusalem. This is sort of a transition phase for the narrative of the book of Acts. The first section of the book was the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion and resurrection where we saw the early work of Peter.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Reviving the Bride Nullified

As goes marriage and family, so goes the church, so goes civilization.... (www.catholic365.com)

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