"A Christian isn’t a person who simply follows some commandments, but is a person who tries to think like Christ, act like him, love like him, Being a Christian means allowing Jesus to...
"Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that...
When Jesus gives us himself in the Eucharist, he seeks total communion with us. He gives his total self to us. For this union to reach its ultimate intimacy, we are to give...
"Behold, I am doing something New" Is 43:19 Part I What was the new thing God was doing in the midst of his people who were in exile? Let us read the passage...
"The life of the Christian has three distinguishing aspects: deeds, words and thought. Thought comes first, then words, since our words express openly the interior conclusions of the mind. Finally, after thoughts and...
Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time : Gospel Reflections Year B
By spiritaflame 10:58 AM Reading ReflectionsWhen Jesus had crossed again (in the boat) to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came...
"And give me, good Lord, a humble, lowly, quiet, peaceable, patient, charitable, kind, tender, and merciful mind, with all my works and all my words and all my thoughts to have a taste...
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a father." (St.John XXIII) The role of the father is more than biological and financial. It is also spiritual....
Teaching Call to Holiness Part Two
By spiritaflame 10:38 AM Teachings1. Eph. 1:3-6 "Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has bestowed on us in Christ every spiritual blessing in the heavens! God chose us in him before...
Reading Reflections on the Gospel for the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time
By spiritaflame 10:33 AM Reading ReflectionsOn that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to them, "Let us cross to the other side." Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was....
Thought of the Day June 19, 2015"You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love...
Call to Holiness Part One
By spiritaflame 10:29 AM TeachingsThe call is from God–the response is ours "It is God's will that you grow in holiness." (1 Thess 4:3) The call to holiness which is from the Trinity is patterned after the...
By spiritaflame 10:22 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 13, 2015 "Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak." St Anthony of Padua. ...
Are Mormons Christians?
By spiritaflame 9:44 AM Apologetic Tracks
By spiritaflame 9:37 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 12, 2015 "Who will separate us from the love of Christ?...For I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the...
What is the new thing God is doing in our lives? What is the Spirit saying to the Church of the 21st Century? We believe that God spoke one word. Jesus "In times...
By spiritaflame 11:40 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 11, 2015 " The way you teach is important, and what you teach is more important, but how you live is most important." ...
By spiritaflame 11:00 AM Reading Reflections
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel Mk 4:26-34 Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter...
By spiritaflame 10:29 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 8, 2015 "Beg for me the courage and endurance not only to speak but also to will what is right, so that I may not only be called...
By spiritaflame 10:18 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 5, 2015 "Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: "O...
By spiritaflame 2:35 PM Prayers
Novena To the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 4, 2015-June 11, 2015 Divine Jesus, You have said, "Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be...
By spiritaflame 10:25 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 4, 2015 Eucharist: "The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive." (Pope Leo the Great) ...
By spiritaflame 11:47 AM Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day June 3, 2015 Feast of St. Charles Lwanga and companions It is as if you are pouring water on me. Please repent and become a Christian like me. --...
What is the new thing God did through Jesus? Read Is 43: 19 once more The marvels of God, the new graces and signs and wonders were prophesied in the Old Testament. 1)...
