Posts by Arrowood
How Christian Friendship Keeps Us Accountable
There are many benefits to Christian friendship, from making us smarter to teaching us how to love. Another potent benefit of friendship is its ability to make us better people. A good friendship can form our character in three powerful ways. Friends Form the Atmosphere of Our Lives Our friendships form the atmosphere of our…
Read MoreGod’s Thirst Meets Ours: The Desire of Catholic Prayer
Catholic prayer is a personal relationship with God. But this relationship is not the emotional feeling of connection that modern Christians often associate with a “personal relationship with Jesus.” In fact, Catholic spiritual masters often warn against being driven by feelings. While feelings of warmth and closeness to God are certainly real, and are in…
Read MoreWhy We Catholics Pray to the Saints
Learn the answers to 8 questions about the practice of praying to Catholic saints in Catholic spirituality.
Read MoreWhich parents does a license for a school district cover?
If you have purchased a Teaching the Way of Love USB drive for a school district that is not directly affiliated with a parish, you may use the material on the USB drive for all parents within the school system. There is no need to purchase a separate USB drive for each school. This means…
Read MoreDo Catholics Worship Saints?
Father Mike Schmitz explores the claim that Catholics worship saints by praying to them. 00:00:07 Hi my name’s Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. 00:00:10 So I was recently talking with a man, he’s a missionary with FOCUS: The Fellowship of Catholic University Students. This awesome guy; he wasn’t always a missionary and…
Read MoreDaily Bible: The Lord Secures Justice
Read Today’s Readings In Philemon 7-20 we see Saint Paul navigating the challenges that the Gospel poses to human culture. The slave Onesimus escapes from Philemon, who is a Christian, and runs to Saint Paul, apparently seeking sanctuary. Saint Paul’s response is to send Onesimus back to Philemon with this letter. In the letter Saint Paul…
Read MoreDaily Bible: Be Blameless
Read Today’s Readings Today’s first reading is from Saint Paul’s letter to Titus 1:1-9. Saint Paul has ordained Titus as a bishop, and has instructed Titus to in turn raise up bishops in each city where he starts a local church. In the time of the apostles, the term for bishop and priest were used…
Read MoreDaily Bible: You Are the Temple
Read Today’s Readings In today’s first reading from Ezekiel 47:1-12, the prophet shares his vision of a river flowing from the temple, giving life wherever it flowed. The river represented the Covenant, the love of God flowing into the world. For the Jewish people from the time of Solomon until its destruction in 70AD, the…
Read MoreDaily Bible: The Laws of Love
Read Today’s Readings In today’s first reading, Deuteronomy 2:2-6, we hear Moses exhorting the Hebrew people to not only obey the Law of God but to love it. He also sums up the purpose of the Law with words that become the central prayer of the Jewish faith, called the Shema (which means “Hear): Hear,…
Read MoreDaily Bible: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven
See the Readings for Today The readings for All Saints Day are just beautiful! Revelation 7:2-14 recounts St. John’s vision of the 144 thousand saints who have come through the persecution and washed in the blood of the Lamb. In other words, these saints remained faithful to Jesus, and are saved by Jesus’ sacrifice…
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