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Do we refuse to forgive? If so, God too will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us.

The story of Jonah this anti-prophet, this sullen, pouting prophet, reminds us that we are called on to emulate God’s compassion and mercy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Signs in the Sky

For the past four years and 8 months, a series of celestial signs have occurred. Now, such signs are not, in and of themselves, anything portentous. We are not to do as the Romans and other ancient cultures did and spend our days constantly looking to the sky for some omen from which to divine the w... (www.catholic365.com)

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What History would Always be in a Fallen World, Part I: the Prefiguring Covenant

In the Introduction to the Abstract Fallen World, we saw that the material creation proves the most complex and wonderful, in that, if it falls, an Incarnation introduces the possibility of God loving the creatures to a greater degree than if the world had never fallen, namely that God might suffer ... (www.catholic365.com)

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"But It Looked So Harmless...!"

The spiritual dangers that surround us are far more serious than bodily ones, for "what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" (Mt 16:26).... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 161 – Paul's Duty

Today we read passages where Paul further annunciates his right as an Apostle to obtain a living from the congregation, if he so chooses. However, Paul makes the point that he has forgone this right in order to present absolutely no obstacle between a potential convert and the faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Racial Tensions in a "Post-Christian" World

Many social scientists, postmodern progressive academic elitists, and many politicians claim we live in a “post-Christian” world. We Christians know that Christ promised to “be with us always, even unto the end of the age” (Matt 28:20).... (www.catholic365.com)

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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence – we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but he says to us and through us that matters.

We all have to be busy like Martha: we need work for our livelihood, food must be prepared, the house must be maintained, children must be taken care of. Doing all this indeed is doing God's work in our daily lives: do we find God somehow in these ordinary and extraordinary chores?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Crown Him With Many Crowns

This morning, my fingers delighted in playing the chords and melody of a hymn which had been chosen by Sr. Rebecca, whose week it is to lead Office, lector at Mass, and select the music. In other words, it’s “her week for liturgy.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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What History would Always be in a Fallen World, Introduction

To recap from the introduction to the Greater Ages in Abstraction, we reiterate more precisely, the theory to this entire book is that there is a spiritual blueprint for the ages of salvation history if God is to redeem man to his fullest potential before the end of history.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Free Choice: To the Church or the Gallows

The most incredible law that was ever established in the United States was one enacted by the state of Virginia in 1610; it prescribed not jail, but the death penalty for any healthy adult failing to attend church for three consecutive Sundays!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 160 – Meat Sacrificed to Idols

Paul next addresses what was a fairly big controversy in the first century. As the faith spread out from Jewish to Gentile areas and the conversion of Gentiles became a greater focus, the question of what to do with meat sacrificed to idols became a recurring issue.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope Francis, St. John XXIII and St. Joseph

Had he been elected Pope in the 2005 Conclave, Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio would have taken the name John XXIV. He is reported to have told the late Francesco Cardinal Marchisano, “John, I would have called myself John, like the Good Pope; I would have been completely inspired by him".... (www.catholic365.com)

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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like…..Jesus will have none of that….. Everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

It is easy to be a good neighbor to people whom we want to impress, or people we care about, or people we just like, but can we be the same to the stranger on the street, the lonely, the depressed, the person with AIDS, the addict, those who don’t look like us, talk like us, or have different belief... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Lady of Good Remedy---Her Intercession saved Countless Christian Slaves

Those gospel passages from Matthew's gospel give us Jesus' teachings on what is commonly known as the Corporal Works of Mercy. Who could have ever thought at the time of Christ that 1200 years later these simple directives from our Lord would not only lead to the founding of two religious orders, t... (www.catholic365.com)

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Accepting Hard Times Not Easy

This weekend at Mass the second reading is from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Paul addresses an issue that is either very appropriate for some people, or I suspect soon will be very appropriate for most of us. He talks about being spiritually content while being physically destitute and depr... (www.catholic365.com)

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Don't Resuscitate - Exterminate

The genius of modern technology has found ways to repair most types of defective gadgets, from virus-diseased computers to the Hubble telescope and spacecraft toilets. But now one has yet found a way to straighten a crooked billiard cue.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 159 – Paul's Call to Chastity

In today’s reading Paul endorses chastity in the most emphatic terms possible. In just fourteen verses he endorsed chastity in one way or another ten times. He says if one is not married they should not seek marriage. He says that those who have wives should live as if they have none.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Why the Fatima Chastisement and Triumph Await Us

This year we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal. The occasion is a time for reflection upon a world and Church in disarray. As a result, many sense that a dark future awaits us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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You cannot command or compel people into holiness, you cannot increase their spiritual stature one cubit by any kind of force or compulsion. You can do it only by sharing your life with them, by making them feel your goodness, by your love and sacrifice for them.

"What more was there to do that I have not done for my vineyard?" (Is 5: 1 – 7) was the lament of the vineyard owner in today's gospel reading. Despite all the efforts and care, his vineyard yielded only sour grapes.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mass Murder in a Post-Christian World

Disaster struck us again, this time in Las Vegas, Nevada with an unfortunately well-orchestrated plot to mass murder some 22,000, concert goers. Fifty-nine wee killed and five-hundred were wounded.... (www.catholic365.com)

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