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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
The great spiritual writer, Thomas Merton, once wrote that “the Advent mystery … is the beginning of the end of all in us that is not yet Christ”. As this new liturgical year begins, we are invited once again, to examine our lives and reflect on how…
Thursday, November 21, 2019
We’ve now reached the end of another liturgical year with the celebration of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Pope Pius XI established this solemni-ty in 1925, celebrating one aspect of Jesus’ identity as opposed to…
Thursday, November 21, 2019
It’s the end of the year for us Catholics as we celebrate the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. This has to do with an aspect of Jesus’ identity rather than of his life. Conventional understandings of kingship and power are…
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Now that I’ve laid out the Catechism’s teaching on purgatory and hell, let’s talk about heaven!
Here are the teachings on heaven from the Catechism:
1023 Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with…
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
As cremation rates steadily increase, families are waiting weeks, months and even years before interring their loved one’s remains, or not even doing so at all. Some wait as they hope for a more ‘meaningful’ celebration, by waiting for a particular…
Friday, November 1, 2019
On Friday we celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints, honoring all of the Saints (officially recognized by the Church) and saints(non-canonized people who have led lives glorifying God) who have gone before us; and yesterday we celebrated All Souls’…
Friday, November 1, 2019
In July 2007, Dcn. Ralph Poyo launched New Evangelization Ministeries (NEM), and set out to begin the work of evangelization. Having a fundamental understanding of evangelization, he began to serve parishes. In his efforts to assist their varied…
Thursday, October 24, 2019
“For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 18:14) These words from today’s Gospel should echo in our minds throughout the week – if not every day of every year. With humility we approach our…
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Every year, people and well-meaning Christians seem to question how Halloween is celebrated and what their ideal response should be. It is difficult at times for Christians to appreciate that there is important value in mockery of evil - or even…
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Faith is brought up again in today’s readings. Remember two weeks ago we heard from Jesus that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could tell a mulberry tree to uproot and replant in the sea and it would obey. Last week we had the ten…