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Self-Discipline and Trust

A little girl said to her mother, “I’m happier today than I was yesterday.” In response to the mother’s inevitable “Why?” the moppet pondered for a moment before replying. Then she said, “Yesterday my thoughts pushed me around, but today I pushed my thoughts around.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Lenten Practices: Preparing Our Hearts and Minds for the Resurrection

Lent, or as it is called in Latin, Quadragesima (which means the fortieth day), is perhaps my favorite Liturgical season of the year. In it, we see so many different practices, both in the Church building and also among the faithful. Lent is the forty day season of preparation for Easter.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Day I Realized I Was the Young Rich Man

It was over the course of two weeks that a certain parable came up at least five or six times. God was clearly trying to get my attention.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Crisis in the Church?

A very poignant statement that involves all that holds God, His Church, and our involvement in what we hold sacred as crucial for the future of worship and stability of Christianity. The crux of the matter brings up questions pertaining to the growth of the Church from early eras when the Church wa... (www.catholic365.com)

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Consequences of Tepid Christianity: The Boston Marathon Bomber's Widow

I saw Peter Berg’s recently released film, Patriots Day over a month ago. Of the many heroes portrayed in this movie, there is just one person who has taken up residence in my memory. She is a minor character, the woman now known as the “Boston Marathon Bombers widow.” Her presence in the film is sh... (www.catholic365.com)

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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

Being aware of our weaknesses and shortcomings, we should be ready to forgive those who have wronged us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Jesus Is Intolerant, and That's Good

Imagine this scenario: It’s the middle of the night. You’re sound asleep. Suddenly, the smoke alarm starts beeping loudly. You stumble out of bed and you can smell smoke.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We Are the Woman at the Well

We are the woman at the well. We need Jesus more than we realize.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Temptation and Trust

It has been said that humans are subject to three kinds of temptation: to shine, to whine and to recline. The first one--to shine--comprises all temptations to pride in its many forms, including vanity, resentment, unforgiveness of one’s enemies, arrogance, argumentativeness, refusal to apologize, a... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Samaritan [Unorthodox] Woman at the Well as Prophecy of NEW Testament Unorthodoxy

Last weekend at Mass, the priest said the Samaritans were unorthodox from the beginning. After the 40 years of wandering in the desert, they did not settle down with the true People of God, the Jews.... (www.catholic365.com)

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New Reflections on the Stations

Last year right around Easter I wrote a two part article on the Stations of the Cross. As I write this, we have just come from doing the Stations with our Parish. Our Stations are set up at homes and businesses around town, so we walk about 2 miles or so by the time we’re done. The first Station is ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Commentary on Wilderness Experience

My reflection on the Wilderness Experience brings some insight to the three attributes of emptiness, loneliness, and dryness. However, after reading over that section I feel that a more detailed explanation covering those terms is needed to give the reader a better description as to what I meant an... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Explosion of Love Unlimited

Although Jesus was full of love and could communicate it to others whilst He was on earth, God’s plan was initially limited. In other words, in entering into a world of space and time, Jesus was necessarily limited by the laws of space and time.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We might begin by asking how our enemies got to be our enemies in the first place...Jesus had enemies for just the opposite reason that most people do: because of His unwillingness to compromise with evil. To whatever extent we may, through God's grace, bear holiness in our own lives, we too will win enemies……….

For first-century Jews, “your enemies” and “those who persecute you” were most obviously the despised Roman oppressors. But Jesus challenged his disciples to love and to pray for the very people who occupy their land, tax them heavily and treat them harshly and unjustly.... (www.catholic365.com)

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New war and just war

After the collapse of the bipolar world order (1989/91), many military conflicts broke out in the destabilized and deeply changing world, mostly with an ethnical or islamist background. Due to this fact the focus within the concept of war has changed from the aggression of sovereign states to milita... (www.catholic365.com)

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Anxiety and Trust

A four-year-old reported to his mother that his toothbrush had fallen into the toilet. She fished it out and gingerly deposited it into the garbage can. A few minutes later, he brought her another toothbrush--her own--and said, “You’d better throw this one away too. It fell in the toilet last week.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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3-dimensional faith in a 2-dimensional world

People often talk about body and soul as if they were two completely separate and independent constructs, and that faith resides within the purview of the latter rather than the former. Perhaps for some it does; but not for Catholics. The Catholic faith involves the participation of the whole person... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Wilderness Experience

Perhaps the original wilderness experience occurred when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt in what is called the Exodus experience.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Warning: Beanie Babies are the work of the devil.

As most parents know, carrying a two year old and a four year old to Mass is a…shall we say…an adventure. My daughter, Regan, was two years old when she discovered Beanie Babies and dolls. To my everlasting dismay, she latched onto the goat Beanie Baby and a dollar store Barbie knockoff.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Jesus gave us the Sacrament of Reconciliation not as a simple option, but as something He wants us to use……When we ignore this sacrament, we ignore Jesus' command given for our spiritual welfare. And when we ignore His command, we ignore Him."

Our salvation hinges on trusting in God’s mercy. But remember: Mercy means pardon for guilt. Pardon for our guilt can come, by God’s mercy, only if (a) we face and acknowledge our guilt under God, and (b) we are truly sorry for having offended God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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