First, in addition to prayer, you need to radically cut off the occasion of the sin. If it's your computer or phone or whatever, get rid of it. Knowledge comes through the senses. When you remove things from your eyes and your sight, you will begin to forget about them. If you cut...
and the darkness of Holy Saturday. I will miss the orchestra during the Great Easter Vigil, and the Washington Brass at Cardinal Wuerl’s Mass on Easter Sunday. I will miss it all, but, like all things, we need to move on. I will find my new normal for the Triduum. Will I be dar...
"We are not things to be traded or given away in backroom deals," the nuns wrote in a four-page response to the decree posted to their website Saturday afternoon. Apr 23, 2024 Arlington nuns who sued Bishop now under new authority ...
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I used to associate the wordapparitionwith ghosts when I was a kid, and therefore the idea of a Marian apparition took on a strange, unsettling nature during my life before my Catholic conversion. I’ve since learned that many words that meant certain things to me as an evangelical: words...
I realized that I hadn’t thought or done much about many of the things I had written about. This culminated in the realization that I have not always practiced what I’ve been “preaching” and therefore thought it might do me some good to organize much of the material into a coherent...
Another passage that suggests an ongoing aspect of Christ’s sacrificial ministry in the heavenly sanctuary is Hebrews 9:23, which reads, “Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than...
communities which have confessed the name of Christ with exemplary faithfulness, often at a high price." Such a witness for Christ is the call of every Christian, since Jesus "is the center of all things." "In him, through him, and for him all things were created," explained the ...
At every consecration the holy oils are used; at a blessing customarily only holy water. The new state to which consecration elevates persons or things is permanent, and the rite can never be repeated, which is not the case at a blessing; the graces attached to consecration are more ...
You want to enhance your good habits as daily Mass, but you also want to replace your bad habits with better ways to live. Habits are hard to change and you may have to find ways to do things differently. Addictions to drugs or excess drinking are even harder to control. Many bad ...