Tag Archives: catholic

Third Sunday After Pentecost

We have a mission. We have a role. Being too nice and harmless can be harmful to the mission we are called to in this life. Christians are hated and persecuted. But, nevertheless, we must keep pushing. We must not stop. Jesus was hated by many but that did not stop Him and it must not stop us also.

Eucharistic Renaissance

Like most people reading this blog, I can recall those moments in childhood when my mother would announce, “it’s time to go to Mass!” and would be met with a chorus of groans from the family. It wasn’t so long ago that I found myself dreading the early morning wake ups that characterized my Sundays.⁣⁣ButContinue reading “Eucharistic Renaissance”

Answering a Common Objection to Christianity

“‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.’ In Christianity, we have God’s full revelation to humanity. It’s true that all religions contain some measure of truth — the amount varying with the religion. Nevertheless, if we earnestly want to follow and worship God, shouldn’t we do it in the way He prescribed?

If Jesus is indeed God, then only Christianity contains the fullness of this truth.”

Blog: Silence

For the past two weeks, the managers of this account of have been reading Shūsaku Endō’s Silence, a novel that chronicles the lives of European missionaries’ journey to a largely anti-Catholic Japan. The book is raw, haunting, and at times, saddening. Readers find not the typical hagiography of a martyred saint, but rather the frustratingContinue reading “Blog: Silence”

The Jesus Prayer

“𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨.”⁣⁣-1 Thessalonians 5:17⁣⁣⁣⁣This ancient edict of Paul, to pray continuously throughout our lives, seems at first, daunting. “The Prayer” or the “Jesus Prayer” was the Church’s answer to this command.⁣⁣⁣⁣Most commonly practiced in the Eastern Orthodox circles of Christianity, the Jesus Prayer is a simple invocation that’s repeated throughout one’s day:⁣⁣⁣⁣“𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭,Continue reading “The Jesus Prayer”

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

“In God’s dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. Of course we cannot fully conceive a Being like that: just as, if we were so made that we perceived only two dimensions in space we could never properly imagine a cube. But we can get a sort of faint notion of it. And when we do, we are then, for the first time in our lives, getting some positive idea, however faint, of something super-personal – something more than a person. It is something we could never have guessed, and yet, once we have been told, one almost feels one ought to have been able to guess it because it fits in so well with all the things we know already.” (Harper Collins version, p161-162)