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Reflecting on Ashes

Ash Wednesday may be behind us, but it would benefit us to remember the readings of that day, and not just during Lent but all year long.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Lent - A Reflection on its Meaning

“What are you giving up for Lent?” is the normal discussion every year as this most holy season rolls around and the thoughts of Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving are on the minds of people attending services on Ash Wednesday.... (www.catholic365.com)

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It’s been said that God answers every prayer. Sometimes he says yes; sometimes he says no; and sometimes he says not yet. It’s that last one that is by far the most difficult to cope with for most of us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Today’s first reading tells us that God doesn’t want fruitless fasts or empty works – God wants the real thing from us. He wants us to love like he does. Seems like Fasting of the Mind is right up God’s alley.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Fish, Pork, Abstinence, Maccabees, the Antichrist, and the Jewish Conversion

One of the primary errors of the Jewish People is the failure to discern between mere discipline versus doctrine, between what is merely external and what is internal, which is the only thing that really matters. In the Old Testament, Pork was absolutely forbidden--on any day or any time.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Adversity and Trust

One of the most difficult challenges we face in our spiritual life is trusting in God’s loving providence when we are hurt by the malice of other humans. It’s one of the most anguishing tests of our spiritual maturity. Trusting God to bring good from evil is in itself not too difficult--unless we ar... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Second Word of Jesus

During my prayer in our hotel suite, I heard a young child outside our door call anxiously to her father, “Daddy, wait for me. Please.” I assume he stopped, and I heard a muffled response, “Come on, we need to go.” A moment later, I heard small feet patter past the door and down the hall.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Our Lady of Miracles March 12th Feast Day

There's a special statue of Our Lady in Paris and this is how this statue came about: Back in the 11th Century, a lord who was ill decided to pray to Our Lady for his health to be restored promising that if it was he would enter a monastery. His petitions were heard and he entered the monastery.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Tears of Joy they fall so pure, From the depths of Grace they come for sure, The emotion of God's Love sees us through, As He embraces the needs for me and you.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Eucharist Is a Face-to-Face Meeting

Do you have any loved ones who are far from home? Quite often we are separated from the people we love because of jobs or school or military service. When people are separated, they can share their thoughts via letters and email, and they can make phone calls and speak to one another.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

If Christ himself were to ask you to "deny yourself and take up your cross each day and follow me," how would you respond? As Christians we desire to follow the teachings of Christ; we wish to follow his example.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Three Pillars Of Lent

Most practicing Catholics know what is expected and required of us during the Season of Lent. We talk about giving something up for Lent. We want to make Lent special. Most Catholics want Lent to be a spiritual experience, a truly life changing experience.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Trials and Trust

The word “trial” can mean “ordeal,” or it can mean something quite different, namely, “test.” Our hardships can be approached from either point of view, but we tend to emphasize the “ordeal” rather than the more positive “test.” Yet, in the divine plan, every trial in our lives is a critical test of... (www.catholic365.com)

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Newman Centers- Lighthouses of Grace in Secular Education

Many years before I became a Catholic I 'met' Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman. Intrigued by comments like this definition of the practical use of education, Newman represented intelligent scholarship and rigorous thought...along with a core of attractive rebelliousness. (To one who had left the E... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Transfiguration Makes Us Ask: Who Is Jesus?

This week’s gospel reading at Mass is the Transfiguration of Jesus. Matthew’s version of this spectacular event highlights the Transfiguration’s similarities with the Exodus account of God giving the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai. Both events occurred on a mountain; the face of God’s servant became ra... (www.catholic365.com)

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I ‘d been dreaming about a prayer— words now forgotten— in one of those dreams that repeats itself in a contiguous loop... (www.catholic365.com)

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Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

Because Lent is not just about giving something up, it’s about getting something, about being better. It’s about recognizing what has kept us down and wanting to be better people.... (www.catholic365.com)

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If one digs way, way back in the archive of my articles here on this site the first four articles that you’ll find from a couple years ago now tells the story of my journey from cradle Catholic to Semi-Agnostic to Evangelical Christian and finally home to the Church. However, since my archive contai... (www.catholic365.com)

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Suffering and Trust

One of my favorite squibs is the probing insight on the popular “bumper snicker”: If you feel far from God, guess who moved!... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Holy Trinity - Creeds, Grace, Easter

We often ponder the dictates of the Catholic Church, it's position in the world, and the relationship to our sister Christian religions. One only listen intently to the words of the Creed; Apostles or Nicene, and absorb the real essence of the thoughts and labor put into these truths.... (www.catholic365.com)

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