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Healing the wounds of the world

How tragic it is to hear news about different wars and terrorism taking place all over the world. Many innocent people are dying daily in these tragic situations.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Ordinary riches can be stolen or lost, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you….unless you choose to give them away.

In two brief parables Jesus tries to tell people what the kingdom of heaven is about: like one who finds a hidden treasure in the field and sells all he owns to be able to purchase the field and like a trader who finds a truly exceptional pearl and sells all he owns to purchase the pearl.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Iuvenes pro Traditione": Mary

When did you enter the Church? Cradle Catholic or convert? Yes, Anglican Rite/Novus Ordo.... (www.catholic365.com)

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

An executive officer at Standard Oil Company, during his daily Bible reading, was struck by the passage of Exodus 2:3, where it states that the baby Moses was set afloat in the Nile in a papyrus basket waterproofed with tar and pitch.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Mass: Introductory Rites

I have always been fascinated with liturgy and have been drawn to it since I was a child.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 90 – Out come the knives

Paul returns to Jerusalem and things have changed. James is there, history tells us he is now the Bishop of Jerusalem. However, none of the other Apostles are mentioned. Again we know from history that they have left the nest and are spreading the gospel far and wide.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Evil Personified

In the past, as I penned different tenets of doctrinal thoughts pertaining to spiritual and theological aspects within the Church, the idea of exploring anything pertaining to Satan and the evil he conjures into our senses always had me stop short.... (www.catholic365.com)

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No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

The parable about the weeds in the wheat is pretty self-explanatory though. The only additional insight into this parable might be to realize that only Jesus knows the weeds from the wheat, because sometimes what looks like a weed, is actually a plant that is not fully developed yet.... (www.catholic365.com)

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This Filipino Teenager was Martyred "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith)*

Pedro Calungsod was born in the Philippines sometime during July of 1654. He was a migrant child who was taken in by the Jesuits and educated at their boarding school in the Visayas section of the Philippines. This is where he learned his catechism and how to speak Spanish.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Under Niagara's Waters

On the American side of Niagara Falls, the colossal sheet of water takes a dizzying leap over a precipice to crash 160 feet below.... (www.catholic365.com)

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First Steps Off a Cliff

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, has genetically modified a one-cell embryo to cure the genetic defect of mosaicism. He used a technique called CRISPR and “fixed” the bad gene.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 89 – Whatever happened to…?

Today we are told of Paul’s journey back to Jerusalem. This is sort of a transition phase for the narrative of the book of Acts. The first section of the book was the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion and resurrection where we saw the early work of Peter.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Reviving the Bride Nullified

As goes marriage and family, so goes the church, so goes civilization.... (www.catholic365.com)

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I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

With his parable, Jesus consoles us, that the reign of God is sometimes hard to see in our lives. It grows without our being able to see it - perhaps without our even believing it possible. Sometimes the "smallest of seeds" produces startling results.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Day Jesus was the Altar Boy--The Wonderful Legend of St. Peter Paschal *

Peter Paschal, was born in Valencia on Spain's east coast, in the year 1227. Peter's parents were devout Mozarabs (Iberian Christians) who managed to live under Muslim rule. They did this by paying a yearly tax, known as a jizyah.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Light at the End of Our Troubles?

one theologian listed fifty-six biblically stated reasons for suffering as part of God's permissive will.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Conflicting Theories of Law and the American Political System: A Commentary on Thomistic & Hobbesian Conceptions of Law & the American Republic, Part I.

(This is the first part of a two part study comparing the concept of law as articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Hobbes and their influences on contemporary American legal theory and practice)... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 88 – Paul says Goodbye to Ephesus

Paul is now leaving Ephesus to continue his missionary work in the farther parts of the world. At this point, Ephesus has been his home base for some time. These are the people who have sheltered him, fed him and provisioned him for his trips.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Church in Paradise

My wife and I recently took a relaxing vacation in Hawaii on the island of Maui. On our first Sunday there we found a local Catholic parish – St. Theresa. Upon entering the Mass, we learned that the Bishop of Honolulu announced that day (July 9th) Catholics in the islands were commemorating the 190t... (www.catholic365.com)

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The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

The Gospel parables about the kingdom of God as a treasure in a field or an exceptionally valuable pearl or good fish caught in the fisherman's net stress the value of the kingdom of heaven: the finder of the treasure in the field and the finder of the exceptional pearl would sell all they have to o... (www.catholic365.com)

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