“Faith is a gift, but for very few is it a gift
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
3,000 Religious Leave Consecrated Life Every Year
Recent statistics reveal that in the past five years, more than 3,000 religious per year have chosen to leave the consecrated life.
Is it Okay to Tell Fortunes with Regular Playing Cards?
Someone recently wrote to us asking if it’s okay to use a regular deck of cards to tell futures. This person has friends who are described as being “very devoted Catholics” who attend Mass and pray the rosary every day. They have strong faith, but love to read cards and are surprisingly accurate. Is this wrong?
An Attitude of Gratitude
“Self-pity” reveals a void in us, an emptiness that is the absence of God,
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Feast of St. Gertrude, Virgin (1256 – 1301)
“Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most precious blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus,
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Feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231)
“I declare before God that I have seldom seen a more contemplative woman.
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Should Thanksgiving Become Just Another Shopping Day?
This year, even more retailers are planning to keep their stores open on Thanksgiving Day, a trend that may be threatening to turn the nation’s annual day of thanksgiving into just another holiday shopping day.
Is Holotropic Breathwork™ Dangerous?
MS asks: “What is Holotropic Breathworks and how dangerous is it?”
Feast of St. Albert the Great, Bishop & Doctor (1206 – 1280)
On the Holy Eucharist:
“[Jesus] could not have commanded anything more beneficial, for this sacrament is the fruit of the tree of life. Anyone who receives this sacrament with the devotion of sincere faith will never taste death.”
– St. Albert the Great
For Reflection:
To what extent do I receive Holy Communion with sincere faith? Is there anything I can do to increase my devotion? (Consider the following: More frequent use of the Sacrament of Penance, a more devout practice of the moral virtues, a time of recollection before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, a prayerful thanksgiving after communion, a pious and reverent reception of the Sacred Species.)
CA Gender Identity Law to Go on Hold
Enough signatures have been acquired to qualify for a state referendum on California’s controversial law allowing students to choose which bathroom or locker room to use based on their “gender identity.”
