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5th Sunday: Poverty, humility, service.

By Guest AuthorPosted on February 8, 2015Posted in FeaturedTagged service, Church militant, spiritual combat, poverty, humility, Christian discipleship, Rerum Novarum

I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor 9:23). Last Sunday, in a presentation given at the end of Mass, you were asked a rhetorical question: What is the best kept secret of the Catholic Church? The response was the Church’s corpus of teaching[…]

21st Sunday: You are the Christ

By Guest AuthorPosted on August 25, 2014Posted in FeaturedTagged humility, Holy Eucharist, Pope St. Pius X, The Great War, self-sacrifice

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt 16:16). St. Peter’s statement of faith is the foundation of the Christian faith, just as it is the foundation of the Church’s life and mission. Christians are so called because we believe in the divinity of Christ; namely, that Jesus Christ is the Only[…]

Felix Culpa

By Mary WoodardPosted on November 23, 2012Posted in FeaturedTagged conversation, felix culpa, apple, Adam and Eve, Garden of Eden, ethics, Brideshead Revisited, Lord Marchmain, Mary Woodard, grace, happy fault, forgiveness, mascara, humility

At the bank a few years back, my friendly teller and I were chatting in the way that sometimes happens when you are about the same age as the person helping you, and one of you goes, “Oh my gosh, I love your eyelashes!” And the other one goes, “Oh WOW, that is so sweet. Your necklace[…]