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Why Would Anyone In This Modern Age Even Think About Religious Life?: My Story So Far

I’ve heard this question many times, and after having discerned for several years, I’ve read many, many vocation stories. In fact, everyone has a story to tell. God writes each of us into life in His own unique way, and we’re made to live with a special purpose only we can fulfill.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 61 – The Apostles and Converts form a New Community

After Peter and John are released by the Sanhedrin they go back to their new community and pray in thanksgiving. In the prayer they recognize that verses from Psalm 2 were actually prophetic, describing how the Jewish leaders would conspire with the gentiles against the messiah. Notice, this sugge... (www.catholic365.com)

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Talking Holy Spirit with a Pentecostal

I have had many mutual faith sharing moments with Uber drivers and the last one I didn't even know how it began, but I found myself saying I wish I had known sooner the reality so basic as the Second Coming. I mean, this is so fundamental in Christianity, I couldn't comprehend why it took 38 years o... (www.catholic365.com)

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Being a Slave to Sin Is Hard Work

At Mass this weekend, the second reading is from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. He explains how the Spirit of God can transform us. “You are not in the flesh,” he writes, “on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Living in the almost

As a single Catholic, it can be an easy temptation to fall into dangerous binary thinking. Either you do everything right, and get rewarded with a loving spouse and family, or God withholds these things from you as some sort of punishment. On my worst days, I suspect God of keeping these things from... (www.catholic365.com)

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Gradual Relapse, Sudden Collapse

One of the most fascinating and dramatic of televised news events is the instant collapse of the dyamited skyscraper. One moment the edifice stands in all its grandiose splendor, and the next moment it is a heap of rubble hidden in billowing dust. The stark suddenness of the change excites our fasci... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Proper Disposition in Prayer

Prayer is communal and personal. In communal prayer, we come together with others to listen and respond to God in the stylized rubrics of the liturgy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 60 – Peter before the Sanhedrin

Today we see Peter brought before the Sanhedrin. What a difference a few weeks makes! A short time ago Jesus stood silent in front of this council at a show trial and was railroaded off to crucifixion. Now Peter is before them. Filled with the Holy Spirit he speaks plainly yet forcefully.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Bookends to Matthew's Gospel

When reading the Gospel of Matthew there are two sections that have intrigued me and they are the “Beatitudes and The Judgement of the Nations.” I like to call them bookends since the very essence contained within them are similar to a beginning and end of a novel.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

We live in a world of contradictions. Lots of people today say one thing but mean another. It is easy to be victims of so-called religious leaders who show compassion but have hidden agenda; they know and say the right words, like a performance they do.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Sex is worth more

As a college student, I gradually became used to hearing that most people think of sex as something you do on a third date. I’ve even seen condoms given out as if they were candy by some student associations.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hair of the Dog

An ancient Roman belief was that "like cures like." Thus, as a remedy for a dog-bite the victim would attach to his skin a patch of hair fro the dog that bit him. From this evolved the modern version of "hair of the dog" - "curing" a morning-after hangover from a drinking binge by taking a stiff dr... (www.catholic365.com)

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Father Ignatius’ policy with the people he met was to be as open and honest as possible when discussing matters or when giving advice or guidance.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 59 – Unclean and Peter's Second Sermon

The Apostles are becoming bolder and have come out of hiding. They travel to the temple to preach. There Peter heals a man who has been lame for life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Whatsoever You Do...........

A question was once posed to me wherein the inquisitive person asked; “If you had just one scripture verse or particular theme to lean on and conduct your life accordingly, what would it be?”... (www.catholic365.com)

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On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Jesus urges us “to enter through the narrow gate.” He calls us to strive continually to live the life to which he calls us, a life that entails dying. Dying to self and rising to life in Christ. The process leads to life just as Jesus’ dying on the cross lead to the resurrection. Modeling our lives ... (www.catholic365.com)

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What does is mean to be free?

One of the main reasons people refuse to follow the teachings in Catholicism is because people are too addicted to the pop culture. And, in case you haven’t figured out the obvious, the teaching in Catholicism and the teaching in the pop culture is about as opposite as you can get.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Loving makes you Lovable

The ennobling pattern of love fascinated the probing mind of a great Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Love, he said, "consists in the constant beaming forth of a favorable atmosphere...a light in which we envelop the beloved, so that all his or her good qualities can reveal themselves.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Letters From Prison

When the Director of the Prison Ministry for the Diocese of Phoenix, Kevin Starrs, gave me the opportunity to join the Prison Ministry as a layman to minister to the inmates incarcerated in the Phoenix, Arizona jails, it was a true blessing in my life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 58 – The First Converts

Today’s we read the second half of Peter delivering the first preaching of the Apostles. A large number of the crowd are quickly converted and then hey quite naturally ask, “What shall we do?”... (www.catholic365.com)

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