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The Prison Cell That's Never Locked

A cartoon showed a bedraggled and disheveled prisoner probing his open cell door, calling to this gaunt cellmate, “The good news is that the cell door isn’t locked. The bad news is that it never was – there’s not keyhole!” The truly bad news is that countless people imprison themselves for years ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 279 – What is Foundational?

Once someone is in the Catholic Church, to voluntarily leave and reject the truth is the most serious of insults against the Lord.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Reading the New Testament in Light of the Old

As Catholics, we’re often taught to read the Old Testament in light of the New. Jesus is the center of Scripture, so everything in it ultimately points to him even if it’s not explicitly about him.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty. acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

This message from Psalm 37 stands in a certain contrast to Jesus’ words in the Gospel (Mark 7:14-23). Jesus speaks at length, and quite unflatteringly, about what comes from “within the man, from his heart”.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Finding Peace and Calm in a Chaotic World

If you are someone who is looking around and watching the news these days thinking “how did it come to this?”, then you are not alone. Today’s world has been filled with unspeakable tragedies and disasters that have affected every race.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope John III, Saving Those He Could

John, born Catelinus, was the son of Anastasius, termed “illustris”, meaning that his father was a high ranking Roman Senator. As a young man, he was raised in Rome, seeing first hand all the difficulties of the time, the invasions and the political intrigue.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mercy from Divine Love

Because of God’s love he found a way to show mercy. His hatred of sin will not bring down his wrath as long as his mercy isn’t spurned. The poetic and touching dictum of Charles Sprague says, “Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed Mercy pleads.” That is the Lord pleads gently and lovingly, urging us ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 278 – High Priest According to the Order of Melchizedek

Today we are in Hebrews chapter 5. This chapter is a little more straightforward by vitally important. It begins by establishing certain basic principles.... (www.catholic365.com)

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On Boys, Bulldozers and Sailboats

I remember many years ago playing in the sandbox with my brothers. I had gotten a new bulldozer. For a little boy, there are few things more awesome than bulldozers.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

In this Gospel passage Jesus sums up His protest against the Pharisees by saying, “You disregard God’s commandment and cling to human tradition.” Jesus does not speak of “God’s commandments,” in the plural, as in the Ten Commandments of Moses. Jesus speaks of “God’s commandment” in the singular.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why Did Jesus Use Harsh Language?

The show Intervention on A&E illustrates how a drug addict gets to the sad point in which a therapist has to sit down with the addict and deliver him the hard, but necessary truth of their addiction. In the grand picture of salvation, Jesus is the interventionist, and we are the addict that suffers ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pearl of Great Price

Life is a precious gift from God that needs to be handled with great care, otherwise it easily can be shattered by sin. When God gives us this gift, we have a choice: We can follow God’s way so that life can grow more beautiful and radiate God’s love upon everyone and everything in our lives—or not.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Miracles and Secrets: Rediscovering Mary in Fatima and Lourdes

My mother booked an Airbnb for the 100th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, on October 13th, 2017, two years in advance. No matter where we would be, or what our circumstances might be like then, it was certain that we would be in Fatima to celebrate. When I say we, I mean that my mom ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Go to Hell – but Only If You Choose to Go

The greatest love story the world has ever known is the paradoxical drama of a God who loves enough to hate evil. He loves us sinners as his precious children, and he hates our sin because it is the evil that poisons us. So in the book of Judges and elsewhere it is recorded that he disciplined Israe... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 277 – The New Rest

In my opinion, Hebrews 4 is one of the most difficult chapters of the Bible to understand. However, if you spend a little time with them you can see that it is also one of the most profound and beautiful as well.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Path of Reparation

A few weeks back I went to the mall for the first time in a long while, as the mall has never really been my thing. I was struck by the starkness of sin that has so overtaken the secular world, so much so, that I would venture to say most people don’t even recognize it.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

Each person Jesus heals is a sacred encounter. Restoring people again to a place where God would intend them to be.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The End of "Stranger Things" in Our Home

Many have been raving about the Netflix series, "Stranger Things." With all due respect for a number of wonderful, genuinely faith-filled friends, watching the second episode had the effect of my cleaning house. DVDs like "Titanic" are now on their way to the incinerator.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How Mysterious are the Mysteries of God?

The building we reside in has more than a few Muslim families, all very warm, respectful, and good neighbors to have. One Muslim woman told my wife she prays five times a day, and to one God. She cannot understand how or why we (Christians) pray to three Gods.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Repentance and Forgiveness

All sin including that which offends our fellow humans, is ultimately an offense against God – a violation of his will as perceived (often inadequately) by the human conscience. Sin is therefore a rupture in a relationship between a rational (conscience-responsive) creature and his or her Creator.... (www.catholic365.com)

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