the Catechism has a summary statement that should leave no doubt that it really means that our bodies will be raised, and in a glorified state, be reunited with our spiritual component and as at present to form a unit....
As a novice I made a thirty-day retreat, along with my novice mates. That thirty-day experience of the Spiritual Exercises was certainly a memorable, important time for me. But the retreat that often comes to my mind was a relatively short, three-day retreat, which I made in Guelph in the summer of 2009....
Tthe Beatitudes put suffering in a whole new light.The Beatitudes also put Jesus in a whole new light: they can be read as a self-portrait of Jesus. "...
Reconciliation. It is an essential ingredient to being a child of God/brother of Jesus– forgiving and accepting forgiveness. To love allows us to be vulnerable to hurt but also open to healing....
Writing in St. John's The Telegram, Pam Frampton takes a close look at hate and why people express their hate in such terrifying ways....
It is good to review what we are to believe about the Holy Spirit. To believe in the Holy Spirit is to profess that the Holy Spirit is one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son:'with the Son he is worshipped and glorified'"...
Holy Orders is to continue the mission entrusted to the apostles by Christ until the end of time. Bishops, priests and deacons exercise this apostolic ministry that furthers the growth of the Church....
"If l were a saint, I would not be able to write about sanctity. Saints radiate God unbeknownst to themselves. They are silent about their holiness because they are unaware of it."...
It is very important that the spouses realize and intend to fulfill the contract they make with each other to give oneself completely and always....
A reflection on the 100th anniversary of the first appearance by Our Lady in Fatima....
