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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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Day 339 – The One Hundred and Forty Four Thousand

The one hundred and forty-four thousand is a symbol or perfection as it is twelve times twelve times one-thousand. It symbolizes that the end will come when God has finished the work of creation and salvation and therefore achieved the “perfection” he intends. Here perfection simply implies the fin... (www.catholic365.com)

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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Instead of focusing on her rights, her interests, or her own discomfort, Mary offered herself wholly to the Lord. The concept of a handmaid was familiar to her, as servant/slave status was a common feature of life in this era.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are you ready of Persecution - The Spirit of Arius

Lately it seems that people within the Church have a lack a belief.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Power of One Act of Love

What is the greatest single act a human can perform? Saints and theologians tell us that an act of love of God is the greatest and most perfect action anyone could ever aspire to, either in heaven or on earth. A single act of agape love immediately restores or deepens the soul’s mysterious union wit... (www.catholic365.com)

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