Daily 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…
Read MoreDiscerning Your Mission by Examining Your Heart
[google-drive-embed url=”https://drive.google.com/a/ntpu.info/uc?id=1JOTyzaxAdDju8sLulo5gSLNT0tv2mQt-&export=download” title=”Show Notes Button.png” icon=”https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/16/type/image/png” width=”300″ height=”97″ extra=”image” style=”embed”] We’re in the Public Courtyard this month, doing some thinking about what mission God has called us to. Remember that your mission is the way that God has called and equipped you to serve the Kingdom of God and to participate in the Divine…
Read MorePope says keep faith fresh, don’t become ‘lukewarm Christians’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Remembering that first encounter and that initial feeling of loving and being loved is as important in one’s faith life as it is marriage, Pope Francis said during his early morning Mass. “If we throw away the enthusiasm that comes from the memory of that […] View the original article on…
Read MoreSharing with Others
The best gifts reflect the love that the giver has for the recipient. Today let’s reflect on how giving and receiving gifts can be a profound exchange of love.
Read MoreA New Pentecost? Can a New Charismatic Renewal Revive Lay Spirituality? Part 2
Part one of this 2-part series laid open some of the problems with the early Charismatic movement. In part 2 we going to explore how the movement could become an authentic Catholic lay movement. We’ve already seen quite a bit of maturity in the Catholic charismatic movement. Institutions like Franciscan University at Steuvenville, OH, have…
Read MoreA New Pentecost? Can a New Charismatic Renewal Revive Lay Spirituality?
To prepare for Pentecost, I have been leading a study in my parish using The Wild Goose. This is a program on the FORMED parish platform. The group enjoyed the simple but profound message of Father Dave Pivonka. But the amount of theological clarification I needed to do surprised me. It wasn’t that Father Dave…
Read MoreWhy Should We Give Alms?
We’re all familiar with the 3-fold discipline of Advent: prayer, sacrifice and alms giving. Prayer and sacrifice prepare our hearts to receive Jesus. They have the power to truly change our hearts. But what about alms giving? Obviously we know that giving food and money to the poor us a good thing to do. But…
Read MoreAn Illustration of Catholic Time Management: No Margin Ned – Pilot
For Catholics, time management is more than just becoming more efficient and productive. It’s about managing all of our personal resources so you can focus your life on what matters most. This fun video series by Kevin Hanly really embraces what Catholic Time Management is all about. Brought to you by Jeffrey S. Arrowood at…
Read MoreSpiritual Gifts – the Prophetic Charisms
Spiritual Gifts and the Prophetic Mission Through our baptism, every Christian is called to participate in Jesus’ prophetic mission – to share the Gospel through teaching and preaching. But some of us are specially equipped and empowered through specific charismatic graces to make this part of our Lord’s mission central to their lives. The prophetic…
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