First Communion is preceded by the sacrament of Penance, also known as Confession or Reconciliation. Penance clears the soul of wrongdoing that has occurred since Baptism and prepares it to receive the gift of Christ's body and blood. The Catholic recites the Act of Confession, a prayer which...
Certainly one obvious message is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, with power over all things, including our physical pains and imperfections. But another meaning is found in His words to the skeptical scribes: “That ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins...
This week we talked through the power of friends, the caliber of your friends and the quantity of friends needed to be successful in junior high.Kids always respond to this talk because it always seems to be a felt need! Service Length: 65 minutes Key Scripture: Proverbs 18:24 Element ...
Despite the hair loss, chemo, and keeping an Excel spreadsheet of my kids’ schedules and sleepovers with friends and relatives, the lunacy of it all did not escape me. As I rode the rapids toward my bone marrow transplant, I could not get over the sheer comedy that comes from trying ...
stopping pushing kids into going to university, restoring homemaking as a "career" and thereby decreasing the size of the labor market (feminism was, in large part, a top-down push on the part of the powers that be to halve wages by doubling the workforce; doubling the number of people ...