Who’s in Charge of Me?
As Catholics, many of our faith have learned the rules at the knee of a teacher, parent, or grandparent without ever having a disagreement, difference of opinion or…
Faith Library
Tag: Scripture
Sweet Sounds
“The footsteps of those who bring good news is a welcome sound. Faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ.”…
Are You Making an Effort?
When I was a child, Christmas meant decorations inside the house and lights strung outside on the eaves and bushes, gifts under the tree, and Midnight Mass. The…
Rosary Riff
I pray the Rosary. I like to do the mysteries, but I’ve been doing them for a long time, and like to reflect on other themes besides the…
Wilderness Dwellers
Sometimes I think that the circumstances that we hear about in the Bible are simply lost on us because we weren’t there. The atmosphere and history of a…
Black Friday thoughts on greed
…Their hearts are trained to be greedy… 2nd Peter 2:14 (GNT) Greed is something we learn, maybe without even realizing it. While there’s nothing wrong with wanting or…
Does the Bible Inspire Your Pastoral Work?
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has dubbed this week “National Bible Week” in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on…
Money
This year, on Black Friday, that secular feast-day of money when people physically fight with each other in stores to buy things cheaply, you can buy a book…
Chasing the Fox
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Deborah Gaudino to the New Evangelizers blog. Have you ever been to a fox hunt? Me neither. In fact, as a city girl,…
On the Necessity of a Magisterium
I was asked a question recently by a good friend about the content of what Muslims really believe. In other words, he asked me what true Islam was.…