The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear about the following.1415 Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches this about the Eucharist.1377 The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is...
We continue to reflect on the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist. 1375 It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in...
This is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church states. 1356 If from the beginning Christians have celebrated the Eucharist and in a form whose substance has not changed despite the great diversity of times...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church begins it's teaching on the Eucharist with these words. "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states an important effect of Baptism in our lives. "Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ. Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches the following: "The Most Holy Trinity gives the baptized sanctifying grace, the grace of justification: - enabling them to believe in God, to hope in him, and...
Homily Seventeenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Elisha was a prophet of the Lord. God chose him to succeed Elijah at the end of his mission on earth. As Elijah performed miracles at...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states in #1265 "Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte 'a new creature,' an adopted son of God, who has become a...
Reflection on Scripture Seventeenth Sunday Gospel B As Shepherd, Jesus feeds
By spiritaflame 10:17 AMSeventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Gospel BAfter this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias). A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says this about Baptism. “The different effects of Baptism are signified by the perceptible elements of the sacramental rite. Immersion in water symbolizes not only death and...
"I think more of the place where I was baptized than of the Cathedral of Rheims where I was crowned. For the dignity of a child of God which was bestowed on me...
"I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and...
"Pilgrim, when your ship long moored in harbor, gives you the illusion of being a house; when your ship begins to put down roots in the stagnant waters by the quay: Put out...
Homily: Sixteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: The last few Sundays we have been reading from the prophets of the Old Testament. Today, we hear from the prophet Jeremiah. He was commissioned by...
"Conversion is...a long process, a spiritual journey made up of failures and falls, and also, made up of new beginnings, new discoveries; the experience at every moment of the fidelity of a God...
Sixteenth Sunday Ordinary Time: Gospel BThe apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. · He had sent them on mission two by two to prepare for and to...
Take heart, my son; you would not be searching for me unless I had already found you. (St. Augustine) While we are journeying to God, God is journeying towards us. In fact,...
“Many religious people lament that the first fervors of their conversion have died away. They think--sometimes rightly, but not always--that their sins account for this. They may even try by pitiful efforts of...
“Compassion is much more than sympathy. It involves an experience of intimacy by which one participates in another’s life. The Latin word misericordia expresses the basic idea: The compassionate person has a heart...
What is the difference between kindness and compassion. Both are honorable virtues. By kindness a person may provide for the needs of another at the moment. That is good. By compassion a person...
Homily Fifteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Background: Because of the sins of the Kings of Israel beginning with Solomon, the Kingdom of David was divided into two, the Northern kingdom and the...
Though in the scriptures the words compassion and mercy are used interchangeably, there is a difference. The word compassion indicates being present with another in the times of their trials and sufferings. When...
Fifteenth Sunday Gospel BJesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. · Up to this point, Jesus had invited them to follow...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1"There is no wilderness so terrible, so beautiful, so arid, and so fruitful as the wilderness of compassion. It is the only...
"Every human being has a great, yet often unknown, gift to care, to be compassionate, to become present to the other, to listen, to hear and to receive. If that gift would be...
(On true spiritual friends)"Happy the souls that are loved by such as these! Happy the day on which they came to know them! O my Lord, wilt Thou not grant me the favor...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Jesus’ friendship is a friendship which is deep, genuine, loyal and total, as all true friendship must be. This is how young people ought...
