The Holy Spirit cautions us in Hebrews, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts…”(Heb 3:7-8). This scripture verse continues with a reminder of God’s address to the Israelites in possession of hardened hearts, “as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors put me […]
Humility means having a lower view of one’s own importance; freedom from pride and arrogance; and, in a religious sense realizing that without God one is and can do nothing. Often, in order to understand humility, one has to experience it—see it with one’s own eyes and feel it in the heart. It is both
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After a fearful vision he witnesses in 1886 between God and Satan, Pope Leo XIII immediately composes a prayer for the intercession of St. Michael the Archangel against evil. Henceforth, the Pope requests this prayer be said following every Catholic mass. To this day, many churches still recite this prayer after mass. In my own
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Today as Lent begins, we hear: “You are dust and to dust you shall return”. This begins our 40 days in the “desert” of fasting, almsgiving, prayer and penitence. What are Christ’s words to us as we commence this sojourn? “Return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning” (Joel 2:12).
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“The bible is the living Word of God!” This emphatic statement, stressed over and over by a priest I know, serves to drive its message home. The bible is: “living and active”—as pertinent and relevant today as it was centuries ago (Hebrews 4:12). Throughout salvation history, the books of the bible were written by various
The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. The love that springs forth between the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ, is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit rules, sanctifies and animates creation and “is God, consubstantial with the Father and the Son” (CCC, 703). To reiterate, the Holy Spirit is God—just as
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