For 56 years, Fr Fred Power,S.J. promoted the Canadian Apostleship of Prayer Association and edited its Canadian Messenger magazine for 46 years. He is now Chaplain at the Canadian Jesuits Infirmary at Pickering, Ontario.
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In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at the Gospel of St. John....
In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at the Gospel of St.Luke...
In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at the Gospel of St. Mark....
In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. Today's posting looks at the Gospel of St Matthew....
In this series of ongoing postings, Fred Power, SJ, offers a guide to the books of the Bible. True Scriptural reading is the careful, intelligent and prayerful use of the Bible by a believer. We begin with an introduction that includes the idea that God has something to say to us....
igNation asked Father Fred Power, SJ how he accounted for his ability to keep writing articles at the age of 91....
A youngster can test the frosting on the corner of a deliciously looking cake with his little finger if he thinks no one is watching. A mouse can nibble at a bit of cheese.. So, too some people today want to pick and choose among the truths of the Faith that can be believed only with the help God's grace received at Baptism. These truths are enunciated, for example, in the Apostles' Creed and similar statements issued by the Church....
A relatively new aberration is gaining strength. It has resulted in a confusion between popular opinion and "sense of the faithful" (sensum fidelium) on matters of faith. Extensive reporting on the discussions that took place last autumn during the first session of the Synod on the Family seemed to foster the notion that something could now be regarded as true and followed in the Church because it was accepted by a majority of the Synod on the Family then in session. And apart from any synod, it could be held as approved if now a majority of members in the Church followed such a belief....
A relatively new aberration is gaining strength. It has resulted in a confusion between popular opinion and "sense of the faithful" (sensum fidelium) on matters of faith. Extensive reporting on the discussions that took place last autumn during the first session of the Synod on the Family seemed to foster the notion that something could now be regarded as true and followed in the Chrch because it was accepted by a majority of the Synod on the Family then in session. And apart from any synod, it could be held as approved if now a majority of members in the Church followed such a belief....
We know that the answer to that question is "Jesus did nothing wrong?" But not everyone would agree. Those who don't accept Jesus have their own criticism of Jesus to justify to themselves why they are not His followers. But in the world today, the number of members of the Catholic Chuch cited in the public press at the time when Pope Francis was elected was one billion two hundred million (1,200,000,000). If the other Christians who accept Christ are added to that figure, then we have a fantastic number of followers of Jesus. As the saying goes, "He must have done something right to have succeeded so admirably."...
