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Day 210 – Work Out Your Salvation in Fear and Trembling

First, I would like to point out that Chapter 2 of the letter to the Philippians is one of the most moving pieces of Scripture. It’s worth reading again, meditating on and praying over.... (www.catholic365.com)

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When Families Meet

One of the most common questions outsiders ask about religious life relates to our families. Do we still have contact with them? Do our relationships change, etc. Might I share the following reflections, originally published on Our Franciscan Fiat, on family in my life as a religious Sister?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

We live in a society in which values that are contrary to the Gospel are canonized. A person’s value is measured in economic terms. The poor are shunned as worthless.... (www.catholic365.com)

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So-called "church-sins" reconsidered

How to handle anti-catholic offenses? What to say if you, as a faithful Catholic, are blamed for inquisition, witch-hunt, crusades, wars, oppression of minorities and so on? Thinking about this question for more than five years, I wrote a book on my experiences in discussions about the Catholic Chur... (www.catholic365.com)

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Preach the Gospel at all times... and when necessary use words.

This quote from Saint Francis of Assisi is pretty famous. But do we really understand what it means? Sometimes, the idea of being holy like a saint seems unattainable. Let’s face it. Not many of us will ever experience the need for that kind of heroism.... (www.catholic365.com)

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An almost archaic word that sounds like a term from the outdated wordage of Shakespeare is “long-suffering.” It means, of course, “putting up with a difficulty for an extended period.” It’s not quite the same as patience, which is basically “undisturbed waiting.” Long-suffering implies a bit more, n... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 209 – The Letter to the Philippians

Today we begin the Letter to Philippians. It is one of the hardest letters to date chronologically but our best reasoning points to it being a latter letter probably around A.D. 62.... (www.catholic365.com)

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They Left Everything and Followed Him

I recently heard again the beautiful story of the beginnings of St. Peter’s discipleship. To be accurate, this probably wasn’t the very beginning; he obviously had some familiarity with Jesus before he let him use his boat.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Greed, Selfishness and envy: Merry Christmas!

Greed, selfishness and envy, for too many of us those are the attributes we adopt during this time of the year. Every year, sermons are preached and articles written about how Christmas has lost it’s original meaning. We hear this lament and we shake our heads and say how true it is, but we don’t ch... (www.catholic365.com)

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Exchanging 5 c's for 2 c's

Living on this earth can be a struggle and a challenge. We face different obstacles along the way and sometimes, we feel as if we are being pulled in different directions. On the one hand, we need to make a living to survive. On the other hand, we also need to maintain a good spiritual relationship ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Advent—God Waits for Us

I do not like waiting—for anything. I was even impatient for my babies to be born. Seven out of eight of them arrived early. Most people I know struggle with the virtue of patience. In our techno-orientated world, this is probably truer than ever.... (www.catholic365.com)

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No one gets through this life without being victimized by injustices in one form or another, and “when they fall victim, they shall receive little help” (Dn 11:34). Not all injustices come from unjust judges like the one in Jesus’ parable of Luke 18; most come from commonplace sources.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 208 – Friends and Representatives

Today’s reading seems to be just a closing list of goodbyes but, if we look closely, we can glean some important information.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Authority: Scripture or Magisterium?

Have you had disagreements on faith? Have you ever been challenged with, “What does the Bible say?” My first thought is, “It says a lot of things.” The question opens several doors, and can lead down many paths of discussion. Instead of stating the comment in my mind out loud, I try to get clari... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stay With Me, Lord!

I’m not usually one to have a ton of little devotionals and prayer cards around, but I got one just the other day that is really “a keeper.” My parents had come up to Grand Forks to help us with our annual fall sale and luncheon this weekend. Their presence was much appreciated.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hard to Find Jesus in Holiday Clutter

This week is the first Sunday of Advent. It seems like we just packed away the Christmas stuff and now we have to bring it all out again. (I realize this doesn’t apply to everyone. Some folks start celebrating the Christmas season right around Halloween.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How to recognize Jesus when He comes this Christmas?

For Catholics, Advent is a period of four Sundays in preparation for Christmas. For some people, it seems like a long wait, but for the Jewish people it took approximately seven hundred years of waiting to finally have the Messiah among them.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Annual End of the Year Inventory of Talents? Huh?

As we near the end of each liturgical year, we hear and read the parable of the talents. If a daily communicant at Mass, the parable is told several times. Both Matthew and Luke record the stories of the landowner who goes away for an unspecified amount of time.... (www.catholic365.com)

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many a Christian has met with a disaster, not physically but spiritually, by relying on his or her personal feelings--often sincere but erroneous--rather than on the established norms of God’s revealed truth, especially as they are articulated by Christ’s Church, “the pillar and bulwark of truth”(1 ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 207 – Live Like You Are Dying

There is a well-known country music song that exhorts us to “live like you are dying”. The meaning, of course, is to implore us to appreciate that which we have around us. The moments big and small with family and friends that are the joys of life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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