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The Key to Happiness

Ten-thousand years of accumulated human wisdom has determined that people are the happiest when they do two things: 1) humbly trust the Almighty Creator, and 2) have loving relationships with their family and friends.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Lady of Sion—aka The Queen of the Jews--The Unbreakable Bridge between Catholicism and Judaism

The roots of Our Lady of Sion go back to the fourth or fifth century. Sion (or Zion) is a place in the Diocese of Toul in France where Christianity in the future nation took root.... (www.catholic365.com)

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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

There is a wide variety of emotion which can accompany the experience of trying to stay awake. But if we consider the two events that Jesus’ words today concern—the coming of Christ in salvation history, and Christ coming to us at the moment of our deaths—we see that these two things share something... (www.catholic365.com)

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Blessed Anna Maria Taigi--- a Shining Example for Wives and Moms Everywhere

This is about an ordinary housewife and mother to seven children. She is proof that an intimate life of the soul with God is just not for the consecrated and those who have taken vows, but is truly for all people who reach out to Him and do their best to follow Him. Her name is Anna Maria Taigi.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

Herod traded the truth for a dance by Herodias’ daughter. Are we trading the truth for convenience, comfort or the avoidance of sacrifice?... (www.catholic365.com)

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To Whom shall we go? You have the words of Everlasting Life!

A strong reaction to what Jesus said; Are you going to leave as well? (Jn 6: 68) Yet, in light of the recent sex-abuse scandal and the outcry from so many disillusioned Catholics many are doing just that. Leaving the pews of the Church, withholding monies from the collection baskets, demanding th... (www.catholic365.com)

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If Tally hadn’t been so frightened, she would’ve screamed. Without a coherent thought, she backed up, on tiptoes. One step. Two steps. The huge, bright-colored snake lifted its head, its beady eyes staring right at her. Its wiggly tongue flickered out and in.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope St. Stephen I—He defined the Sacrament of Baptism and it Stands to this Day

If we could travel back in time to the middle of the third century we would quickly discover the Catholic Church, although fraught with differences from today, had many similarities to our modern day, 21st-century church. There was plenty of hierarchical infighting going on and the politics of leadi... (www.catholic365.com)

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Appearance rules the world

k and choose what we prefer to believe or follow.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Communism, Fascism, and Liberal and Conservative Christianity in the Bible, and the Alabaster Jar of Anti-Sacramental Mystery

This is in STUDENT/TEACHER format, for entertaining interplay. This is very long, but we worth it, in my humble opinion. Enjoy if you can!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mass Attendance is Down...Poper Catechesis is Part of the Solution...

On July 29, 2018 Fox News did a story concerning a Gallop Poll (i.e., https://news.gallup.com/poll/232226/church-attendance-among-catholics-resumes-downward-slide.aspx ) that found Catholic Mass attendance continues to drop. The purpose of this article is to address—to some extent—why this is the ca... (www.catholic365.com)

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Feast of Trumpets

Ancestors who planted roots in Your special kingdom, The vine you uprooted from Egypt, those fallen from your ways, Called yearly by shofar trumpet into the Temple of the Lord.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

This gospel starts the sort of anti-beatitudes. Instead of showing who will be blessed based on action and attitude, here we see who will receive woes instead of blessing.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Believers or Not

We make the sign of the cross, We eat no meat on Friday, Following alone the traditions of man, We nullify the true word of God... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Duty to Avoid Scandal

I’ve already written elsewhere on the recent kerfuffle over the CCC 2267 rescript. In light of the recent scandals—in fact, in light of the last 16 years—I submit that CCC 2489 also needs some clarifying revision.... (www.catholic365.com)

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These Happenings are Unspeakable but I Cannot Remain Silent

When the political philosopher Edmund Burke wrote: "These things are unspeakable, but I cannot remain silent," he could well have been speaking about the terrible sexual scandals that have taken place in our Church.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching."

The choice to follow Jesus is ours to make.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What we can learn from the Pieta

Michelangelo’s La Pieta must be one of the most renowned sculptures in the world and of all time. It is a Renaissance piece made of Carrara marble that depicts Mary with her son, Jesus Christ, on her lap after he was taken down from the cross. We see in her face a dignified and serene sorrow that we... (www.catholic365.com)

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To Hate? To Heal?

God Said, “Let Light Shine Out of Darkness,” But God, this is a great darkness! God, what do we say? How can we relate? I know the trauma and effects of sexual abuse, but to have this pain come from the hands of a priest? There is no way any of us could begin to understand unless we we... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayers for the Divorced

Catholic tradition and teaching firmly uphold the great importance and significance of the family as the “basic unit of society”. The family is where we learn to live and to love. Our Lord is with the family, for it is with the family that the whole of society is either strengthened or weakened.... (www.catholic365.com)

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