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Observing Advent

Carolers come and carolers go; visitors track in ice and snow. They’re trying to bring us all good cheer during this special time of year.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope St. Zephyrinus

Zephyrinus was born a Roman in the middle of the second century. He reigned as Roman bishop from 198-199 to 217. Hippolytus, a rival, is our only extant source of biographical information on this pope. And much of it is probably exaggerated lies. Thus, he is described as a simple man without educati... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres

The 12th of December marks the day that we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady, to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the year 1531. It is said that due to that apparition, 8 million pagan Indians turned to Catholicism. It is also said that this was to make up for the 8 million Catholics who had followe... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Little Quiet. Please.

I negotiated the weekend with my family. I am a fan of Thomas Merton and wanted to have a glimpse at the monastic life. The quiet was appealing to me also. To suggest this is a bit of a stretch for me is quite an understatement.... (www.catholic365.com)

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He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus, in his deep familiarity with the “end time” readings of the Old Testament, offers a vision of a world out of order. The sun and moon are no longer in alignment and the roar of the sea and waves terrify people. These readings don’t frighten me but they do grab my attention,... (www.catholic365.com)

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On Being "Old School"

It’s an obvious fact of life that we Christians live in “the world”. That is, we live in the world as opposed to our true home, eternity in Heaven with God. And so as we live in the world, there are a myriad of different people, ideas and ideologies, cultures and moral codes.... (www.catholic365.com)

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God of the Old, God of the New

I am the Lord, and there is no other. (Isaiah 45:6} Is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? To hear some people, even in the Church, you would think He is.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Wheat and Chaff at the Final Judgment

Well, here we are halfway through Advent. There’s only a couple weeks to go until Christmas Day, and yet once again the gospel reading at Sunday Mass STILL does not talk about Jesus’ birth.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Where is Confession in the Bible?

This is one of the few Catholic Doctrines that you will actually find explicitly mentioned in Scripture. Even so, Protestants deny it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Comfort of Purgatory

As a former Evangelical Christian Apologetics writer, teacher and preacher reverting to the Catholic Church the Doctrine of Purgatory has been probably the hardest teaching of the Church with which to come to grips. Although similar concepts are not unknown within the pale of mainline Evangelical th... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Redeeming Work of the Holidays

This work, family redemption, comes at a heavy price, often dipping into the pockets of what we thought family meant in the first place. In my early married years we would go to his parents house or mine. We would make the rounds. I would make a dish sometimes, but most of the time, we only brought ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning

We are already about 1 week into Advent, and here I am finally trying to find fun and spiritual things to do with my kids to help them grow up knowing that Christmas is truly about the birth of Dear Lord Baby Jesus instead of Elsa the Ice Queen, candy, movies, mischievous elves, or whatever the hay ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why did Jesus have to come to earth?

Another week, another Friday. Father Ignatius set out from St Vincent Church to St Joseph Catholic School to take on the Catechism class with the 15 years old. It was always a challenge facing those youngsters, especially since he allowed a few minutes at the end of class for free discussion. The... (www.catholic365.com)

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Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat

For practically every silent retreat during the past fifteen years, I had been either pregnant or nursing. I had gotten used to rearranging the furniture in the tiny retreat house bedroom, so the baby could nestle safely between my body and the wall while we slept at night. This year, my sixth and y... (www.catholic365.com)

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Whatever Troubles May Be Before You, Accept Them Bravely, Remembering Whom You Are Trying to Follow

Jesus tells us we can not escape from life, but must enter into it. Disciples can not be by-standers to life. When Christians enter into life it takes on meaning. By entering into suffering that is often found in day to day living, freedom can be found if we allow the suffering to transform us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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From Jail to Jesus

I published what you are about to read sometime around 2001. Now that Calvin is dead, I am urged to tell it again because it is the ageless story of how Christ really can change a person. It’s the story of what true conversion is all about.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Can you prove the Assumption of Mary from the Bible?

Is there a way to prove the Assumption of Mary other than saying "the Church says so" to a Protestant? I think so, keeping in mind that, “For some, no proof is necessary. For others, no proof is ever enough.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.

The Catholic Mass is in a word, beautiful. The perfect balance between Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist, where we gather around the Lord's table and witness once again but forever anew, Christ's ultimate act of love and unimaginable sacrifice, all for the sake of each one of us and o... (www.catholic365.com)

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Today's surrender comes

in the silent desert of midnight darkness, the quiet solitude of my own room, where temptations I must resist show up again, where not even the moon gives light to my unrehearsed prayer... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Blessed - and Blessing! - Mother

For a number of years, I had the grace of praying with an intensely faith-filled woman for whom English was not a first language, a perceived challenge on her part that God used, when I first met her, to open my eyes to another way of looking at Our Lady.... (www.catholic365.com)

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