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The World Pines for a Savior
Oh, Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining! It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth. My favorite Christmas hymn is “Oh Holy Night.” The lyrics speak of the emptiness in the heart of the world after Original Sin. The world is pining for a savior. Long lay the world In sin and error…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
Author Steve Weidenkopf reads from chapter 6 in his book, Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church. This chapter, called “The Family Weakens,” explores Church history in the fourteenth century, a time in the Church that saw much worldly selfishness and scandal in the Church hierarchy. This period of history includes the…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: Listening for God in Everyday Life
Dr. Joseph White, a Catholic child psychologist, reads the chapter “God Speaking to Us in the Midst of Suffering and Struggle” from his book Listening for God in Everyday Life. While Dr. White visits the theological and philosophical explanations of suffering, he also seasons his exploration with personal experience from his practice. When…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: God the Father and the Best Day Ever
This week’s book reading is for the kids! Gracie Jagla reads her children’s book God the Father and the Best Day Ever. As she reads she also explains the illustrations. The Father’s “best day ever” is when His Son conquered death and opened Heaven for us. Her book begins with a simple…
Read MoreWill This Advent Be Different?
There’s an old saying: “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” God wants Advent to be a time of preparing our hearts to receive MORE from Him. MORE grace. MORE blessing. But it’s so easy for us to fall into the same old ruts that fails to…
Read MoreSecond Week of Advent: The Week of Peace
The theme for the second week of Advent is peace. Too often our understanding of the word “peace” is limited to worldly peace – the absence of war. But the word peace – as proclaimed by the angels to the shepherds at the birth of Jesus – has a much more spiritual significance. “Glory to…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: Who Am I, Lord? Finding Your Identity in Christ
Author, Joe Heschmeyer reads from chapter 8 of his book, Who am I, Lord? Finding Your Identity in Christ. This chapter, called “You, and Your Divine Destiny,” After exploring some insufficient visions of Heaven, Joe discusses what it means that we are called to become like Christ through the process of “divinization.”…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: Why The Rosary Why Now
Author Gretchen Crowe reads chapter 2 from her book Why the Rosary, Why Now? “For a Deeper Devotion to the Church.” This chapter pulls from the writings of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen as he discusses the Holy Rosary is the solution to the lack of faith and the fear and worry that…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: Stunned By Scripture
Dr. Bergsma reads the chapter “I Have a Confession to Make,” showing how – to his shock – he discovered as a Protestant pastor where the Sacrament of Confession is found in the Bible. He explains how – like Dr. Scott Hahn – his desire as a Protestant pastor to recreate the…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: Bread of Heaven in Jesus Christ: An Imaginative Venture
It’s time for another book reading! Mike Aquilina is one of my favorite modern Catholic scholars. He has done a lot to introduce us to the Early Church fathers. He is reading the chapter, “Bread of Heaven in Jesus Christ: An Imaginative Venture” from his book The Mass of the Early Christians.…
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