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Greeting the New Year---the Catholic Way

According to Georgetown University , as of October 2017, there are 1.28 billion Catholics in the world. 70.4 million of them are in the United States. The USA has a population of approximately 330,000,000 people. That works out to about 22% of the American population being Catholic.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Process of Living

Put on your thinking cap for a moment. Quickly, think of any number between one and ten. Double it. Add six. Divide by two. subtract your original number, the remainder is three.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 249 – "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

Chapter 20, starts with the priests and scribes asking the Lord by what authority he teaches.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The best person I know

I remember when I was growing up, a personal relationship with Jesus was the last thing on my mind. I hated going to Mass (yeah, you read that correctly), and I strictly avoided any type of prayer whenever I could. When I look back on it now, I really believe the reason is because I didn’t have any ... (www.catholic365.com)

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When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Knowing our faith and believing in the message of Jesus is not a joke, it is not something that we should take lightly… but we are called to believe… we are called to have faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Survival of the Fittest

Ling believed in wood-folk with her whole soul. The magic of a mid-winter snowstorm over sleeping fields opened a doorway into a world of scheming squirrels and spirit-filled pine trees. A cawing raven warned the tree-stump mouse family of a stalking calico cat while swaying trees forecasted an impe... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayers of wants

Praying can be difficult at times. We think that we have it all together. We go to God. We tell God what we want. And somehow it magically appears. However, prayer does not work like that. Prayer is not going to Him with all our problems and concerns and somehow managing to come up with a grand answ... (www.catholic365.com)

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A witty but oxymoronic T-shirt quip reads: “I’m humble and proud of it.” That would be a profound theological statement, yet less witty, if it read: “I’m proud to be me, and humbled before him who made me to be me.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 248 – Jesus Predicts the Destruction of Jerusalem

In today’s reading, Jesus enters Jerusalem. He is greeted as a hero. The crowd wants to declare him a king. In the past, Jesus rejected these overtures and would slip away from the crowd. However, now the time has come to ascend to his throne. However, it will not be a crown of gold that he wil... (www.catholic365.com)

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Art Thou Reckless?

Nowadays, I see more and more people driving at high speeds, especially on the highway (North-South highway, LEKAS highway (some of the many highways in Malaysia), doesn't matter. You get Formula-1 wannabes). The speed limit is 90 Km/h or 110 Km/h, depending on which highway one is using, but these ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

We cannot give what we do not have.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Don’t you get tired of it? The mundane? The same old, same old? The status quo? Sure, going to the bar and finding a girl to go to bed with has some sense of thrill and excitement to it. If it did not, why do it? Drinking to excess leaves all the cares in the world behind at least for now. Drugs off... (www.catholic365.com)

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One day I was sitting alone, working to pull out some kind of sentiment toward God. You know, trying to pray. Not the easiest thing to do when you are like a piece of bread left on the counter for the length of Advent.... (www.catholic365.com)

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One frequent cause of disappointment, especially in our prayers of petition, is that God does not give us what we want, but what we need. “Your heavenly Father knows that you have need of these things” (Mt 6:32). In such a case, we are disappointed because our priorities may be misplaced and our val... (www.catholic365.com)

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Who are the Poor Among Us?

Read the four gospel accounts regarding the ministry of Jesus and you will find four distinct themes within the pages of His Life, reaching four different groups of people, all ready to receive God’s hidden promises, revealed in Christ, and realized in man (cf the Mystery of the Church - Col. 1: 24-... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

A man walked into the confessional, and impatiently waited for the sliding screen to open. He heard voices from the other side, but could not hear the words. About a few minutes later the screen slid open. He heard the priest say something, but he didn't pay attention. Finally the priest said, "When... (www.catholic365.com)

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Always remember this - Human reason can excuse any evil.

John declares plainly that “the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Devil.” You could say that this sentence sums up John’s Gospel account, as it moves from the signs of Jesus’ seven miracles, to the Sign of the Cross, the glory of which destroys Satan’s power.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality

The city of Memphis (in Tennessee) sometimes gets a negative ‘rep’ from people outside her limits. However, if for no other redeeming quality (even though I believe there are many), Memphis itself deserves respect for being home to a continuous-miracle. In the heart of downtown rests our brightest b... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Woman at the Well as Ecclesiological Type: Fornication and Idol Worship as Hyperbole of Protestantism

In Part I, we looked at how the Old Testament North, which separated from God’s true Kingdom of Old, can be seen as a type of all Christian division, and not just heresy or just schism. Now we will probe further type of division in the Woman at the Well in the New Testament.... (www.catholic365.com)

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There’s a cutesy axiom that says, “When you don’t know which way to turn, follow God’s directions: turn right!” It’s not enough, though, just to turn right; we must also “keep to the right.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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