It's Time for Catholics to Embrace Halloween | Word on Fire

It's Time for Catholics to Embrace Halloween | Word on Fire

Great Article!!

Is Google making students stupid?

This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/is-google-making-students-stupid/380944/

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Purgatory

I remember when I was in grade school, I heard  a story of someone in Purgatory who appeared to a friend and asked for prayers. I vividly remember that he left a burned hand mark in the wooden desk. I am so glad I came across this priest's blog and the story again! It is amazing how some things leave such a vivid impression (no pun intended) on the mind of a child.  Let this be a reminder to us that we should strive for perfection ourselves and pray for the poor souls in Purgatory. See the attached link for the story.

Purgatory

The Illusion of Neutrality - Crisis Magazine

Logic! Aaaahhh, it is so nice in this world of confusion...

The Illusion of Neutrality - Crisis Magazine

Happy St. Augustine's Day!

Here’s a look at 15 Augustine quotes that have helped shape modern Christian thought.

On a Reading Scripture

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. - Confessions

On the Self-Reflection

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought. - Confessions

On Prestige in Ministry

No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task. – City of God

On Serving Those in Need

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

On Time

For You [God] are infinite and never change. In You, 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in You, because time, as well as everything else, exists in You. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since Your years never come to an end, for You they are simply 'today'... You yourself are eternally the same. In Your 'today' You will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in Your 'today' You have made all that existed yesterday and forever before. - Confessions

On Not Self-Editing the Bible

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. - Sermons

On Science and the Supernatural

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – sourced in The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

On Being Open to New Interpretations of Scripture

In matters that are obscure and far beyond our vision, even in such as we may find treated in Holy Scripture, different Interpretations are sometimes possible without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such a case, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. That would be to battle not for the teaching of Holy Scripture but for our own, wishing its teaching to conform to ours, whereas we ought to wish ours to conform to that of Sacred Scripture. - Genesi Ad Litteram

Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/15-augustine-quotes-helped-shape-modern-christian-thought#UoVCD1De0sTYQHPb.99

Congratulations Taylor on your 1st Communion today! I love you, and I'm so proud of you. Love, Mom:)

The Spendor of Heaven's Presence in the Tabernacle

 

 

 

 

            Jesus says: “If you could only see My splendor in the tabernacle... My power and My tenderness and the guard of honor formed by My hosts of angels burning with zeal. What reverence, what a sense of nothingness you would feel! (...) You would see the utter unimportance of everything that is not love. You would realize too, that nothing could possibly give you more joy than to give Me joy. And you could no longer cease to gaze on Me and on Me alone. For I am all attractiveness. I am Charm and the Charmer. I am Heaven itself.

            Heaven is inside the tabernacle. Adore with all the heavenly hosts. Love with them. Sing. Praise. Never can you overdo it, since all you have is what I have given you and all My merits are yours for the taking.

            Do you know about My merits? Only the Father knows them all. And do you realize that if it were necessary I would begin all over again? Find a new way of praising Me every day. Keep on exploring My hidden treasures. You can never come to the end of them. Discover, discover, until fires undreamed of are kindled within you, and you will say, 'It was you, Lord. How blind I was! The best of me is always You.'

            And while you are talking to Me, I'll continue to heap blessings upon you, for My heart is filled with them, and to give eases it of its burden. It takes a mere nothing from you to make it overflow. If you only knew! My poor little ones, wake up to your power over Me. Get to know Me a little better. Stammer out your words of love. I'll complete them. You've seen the great sun dancing in tiny mirrors? Who can bear its dazzling brilliance? But what is a mirror without the sun?

 

 

***Message of Jesus given to Gabrielle Bossis in France on June 25, 1942.

Imprimatur: Msgr. Jean-Marie Fortier, Archbishop of Sherbrooke, November 14, 1969***