The New York State Catholic Conference is condemning the passage of a bill legalizing assisted suicide in the state and is calling upon Governor Kathy Hochul to veto the bill that is now heading to her desk.
June 11
“The first form of witness is the very life of the missionary, of the Christian family, and of the ecclesial community, which reveal a new way of living. The missionary who, despite all his or her human limitations and defects, lives a simple life, taking Christ as the model, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities. But everyone in the Church, striving to imitate the Divine Master, can and must bear this kind of witness; in many cases it is the only possible way of being a missionary.”
-Pope St. John Paul II
BGL writes: “I have come across this system of psychotherapy by Richard C. Schwartz known as IFS [Internal Family Systems]. Do you know what is in involved with this program? It seems to be coming from different religious traditions. I’m concerned that it is being facilitated in Catholic organizations and I’m not sure it is valid for healing as it portrays.”
June 10
"People today put more trust in witnesses than teachers, in experience than in teaching and in life and action than in theories. The witness of a Christian life is the first and irreplaceable form of mission: Christ, whose mission we continue, is the “witness” par excellence and the model of all Christian witness. The Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates her with the witness he gives to Christ”
-Pope St. John Paul II
June 9
“Techniques of evangelization are good, but even the most advanced ones could not replace the gentle action of the Spirit. The most perfect preparation of the evangelizer has no effect without the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit the most convincing dialectic has no power over the heart of man.”
-Pope Paul VI
June 8th
“Evangelization will never be possible without the action of the Holy Spirit… It is He who explains to the faithful the deep meaning of the teaching of Jesus and of His mystery. It is the Holy Spirit, who, today just as the beginning of the Church, acts in every evangelizer who allows himself to be possessed and led by Him.
June 7
“We still have one short question to answer: 'How are Catholic women to accomplish their providential role as spiritual mothers (with Mary) of the human race?' The answer is simplicity itself. Like Mary –
-Fr. John A Hardon, S.J.
June 6
“Reconcile men with life and above all, we beseech you, watch carefully over the future of our race. Hold back the hand of man, who, in a moment of folly, might attempt to destroy human civilization… Women of the entire universe… you to whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for you to save the peace of the world.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
We recently received a few questions about the legitimacy of a group known as Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (Work of the Holy Angels) which promulgates devotion to the Holy Angels based on a movement started by an Austrian housewife and mystic named Gabrielle Bitterlich (1896-1978).
June 5
“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of woman is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women impregnated with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
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