God Is Community
“The Holy Trinity is a community of love.” The Benefit of Community Roseto is a small town in Pennsylvania. In the 1960’s it was the subject of a 50 year study comparing the town to its neighbors. What the researchers found was that the rate of heart disease was muchContinue Reading
We Have Work To Do, We are Called To Be Apostles
“You can’t get out of your duty to evangelize by saying witness ruins art. It simply doesn’t.” – John-Mark Miravale Sharing Our faith Why do we hesitate to share our faith? After all we have been sent out into the world to do just that. When this question is askedContinue Reading
The Question of Life’s Purpose
“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder” -Thomas Carlyle Adventures in Wonderland In Lewis Carroll’s, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice is wandering in an unfamiliar forest when she meets the Cheshire Cat. “Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?”Continue Reading
Why We Suffer
It is perhaps one of our oldest mysteries, why does God allow us to Suffer? Perpetua and Felicity The historical account of the death of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is rock solid. It was written by Perpetua herself. Perpetua was a young, well educated, noblewoman who made the decision toContinue Reading
Our Need for God
“The Catholic Church in Korea stands as an example of man’s need for God,” The Korean Exception As Christians we are called to evangelization. We have been given the mission to spread the Gospel, the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. To that end Christian missionaries have traveled throughoutContinue Reading
A Remedy for Stress
“when we trust in God, when we give our lives completely over to Him, we are freed from that worldly anxiety and stress.” The Faith of the Christian “Hey Dad! Catch me!” The father turned around to see his son jumping from a rock and hurtling straight toward him. TheyContinue Reading
God Leads By Example
We have a God who chose to lead us by example Why would Jesus insist that John the Baptist baptize Him? John preached a baptism of repentance, for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus, being God, had no sin to repent. Yet when John tried to argue that it was JesusContinue Reading
The Trials of Sainthood
“The more we read about the lives of the saints the more we come to realize how ordinary they really were.” God does not make things easy for His saints. By saints, I mean each and every one of us, for we are all called to sainthood, we are allContinue Reading
Why the Kingship of Christ Matters
“The right which the Church has from Christ himself, to teach mankind, to make laws, to govern peoples in all that pertains to their eternal salvation, that right was denied.” Defining Church Teaching It is a common misconception, that the faithful do not hold a belief universally until it isContinue Reading
What Is Truth?
“To deny that anything is true is incredibly dangerous, not only for ourselves but for all of humanity.” Truth is a casualty of our modern era. We have become very good at sidestepping any admittance of an absolute truth. Tolerance has become a virtual idol, and the number of itsContinue Reading