Will You Open the Door for God’s Offer of Grace?
Readings for November 3, 2013: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Tax collectors have never been popular. But in Roman Palestine, they were particularly hated. It was bad enough…
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A Brief History of All Souls’ Day
Happy Feast Day! As you are all probably aware, today we are commemorating All Souls’ Day, the companion celebration to yesterday’s Feast of All Saints. Celebrating the legacy…
All Saints Day Means Holiness is for All
Readings for November 1, 2013: Solemnity of All Saints At age 16, I thought that aspiring to holiness was out of the question. If you really wanted to…
Why Moral Relativism is Impossible
Pope Benedict XVI often spoke about the dictatorship of relativism. It is a horribly destructive moral theory that has done more damage to modern society than almost any…
The Pharisee and the Publican
Readings for October 27, 2013: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Each year, at one of our country’s leading Catholic universities, a professor does a survey with his incoming…
What If…
I am currently conducting a study of the Book of Genesis via the Douay – Rheims Holy Bible with commentary notes by Rev George Leo Haydock. I enjoy…
Liturgy & Evangelization: Lessons from a Church Bulletin
I recently had a chance to attend Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s in Greenville, SC. The parish is often mentioned in the context of the New Evangelization, and…
Newevangelisticexpialidocious
Are you newevangelisticexpialidocious? Unsure? Don’t worry. It’s a word I made up based on the term “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from Disney’s Mary Poppins. What’s the point of all of this?…
Make Time for a Psalm-Sized Prayer Snack
Readings for October 20, 2013: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time I’ve often heard people say that they don’t want to trouble God with their petty needs and concerns. …
God Always Has Encouragement
I skimmed the October 6, 2013 readings before Mass as is my usual pre-Mass custom. In my infinite idiocy, I thought, Man, God is really playing with these…