Archive for February, 2015

The Sacrifice of Isaac
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The Sacrifice of Isaac

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by on Feb 28, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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Everyone knows that Lent is about sacrifice.  So it’s fitting that the first reading in the second Sunday of Lent recalls one of the most famous sacrifices of all time. Here’s the background.  Abraham really only desires one thing–a son who will lead to descendants as numerous as the stars of the sky.   The only […]

Memorial of Sts. Romanus and Lupicinus
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Memorial of Sts. Romanus and Lupicinus

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by on Feb 28, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ROMANUS at thirty-five years of age left his relatives and spent some time in the monastery of Ainay at Lyons, at the great church at the conflux of the Saône and Rhone which the faithful had built over the ashes of the famous martyrs of that city; for their bodies being burned by the pagans, […]

Fire on the Mountain: The Transformation of Peter
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Fire on the Mountain: The Transformation of Peter

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by on Feb 27, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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Lightning struck. Thunder clapped. The disciples of Jesus—Peter, James, and John—buried their heads in their arms. What is happening? What is Jesus up to now? Another manifestation of the Spirit. We already know that Jesus is God and on this night another affirmation. How could we forget? Throughout their three-year ministry with Jesus the Lord […]

Documentary on the Shroud Airs Sunday
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Documentary on the Shroud Airs Sunday

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by on Feb 27, 2015 in Featured, History, On Media
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All four gospels mention the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. The Shroud of Turin is believed by many to be that burial cloth. It is etched with the image of a man that was scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified, and lanced in the side. If it is real, it provides archeological evidence of the most […]

ISIS Said to Have Begun Executing Captured Syrian Christians
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ISIS Said to Have Begun Executing Captured Syrian Christians

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by on Feb 27, 2015 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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By John Newton In a fast-developing, highly fluid story, there are now reports that ISIS has started killing hostages seized after it captures Assyrian Christian villages in Syria’s Hassake governorate—reportedly 15 kidnapped Christians may already be dead. In a message sent to Aid to the Church in Need Feb. 26, 2015, Iraq-based Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana […]

St. Leander, Bishop
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St. Leander, Bishop

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by on Feb 27, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. LEANDER (c. 534-c. 596) was born of an illustrious family at Carthagena in Spain. He was the eldest of five brothers, several of whom are numbered among the Saints. He entered into a monastery very young, where he lived many years and attained to an eminent degree of virtue and sacred learning. These qualities […]

Decreasing the Surplus Population
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Decreasing the Surplus Population

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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The Dutch are killing themselves more than ever, but they feel OK about it. In the latest Newsweek cover story, Winston Ross pens a fairly balanced report on the current facts and rhetoric on euthanasia, both in the Netherlands and the rest of the world.  The facts reported in the piece are startling: In 2013, […]

Archbishop Oscar Romero
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Archbishop Romero and Me

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ
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I barely met Archbishop Oscar Romero. As in the old Ben-Hur movies, where the heroes have a chance encounter with Jesus Christ in a melodramatic scene that has little to do with the plot of the movie, I brushed up against Monseñor in brief and transient episodes in my childhood. But someday, if God permits me, […]

Birth Control: Ignorance Pays Their Salary
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Birth Control: Ignorance Pays Their Salary

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Cramming the pillow I’d brought from home a little more to my left, I attempted to placate the cramp that was forming in my back. After years of slumbering on a waterbed, this rock hard hospital bed felt like a torture rack. There I was trying to create a bit of comfort and counting down […]

Knock, and the Door Will Be Opened for You
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Knock, and the Door Will Be Opened for You

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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If you’ve ever experienced the power of a novena, you can truly understand these words of Jesus told by St. Matthew in today’s Gospel . Novenas are often discovered out of despair, when your own attempts for a solution have failed. You discover one that fits your situation and you start praying like mad, knowing there […]

St. Porphyry, Bishop
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St. Porphyry, Bishop

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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AT the age of twenty-five, Porphyry, a rich citizen of Thessalonica, left the world for one of the great religious houses in the desert of Sceté. Here he remained five years, and then, finding himself drawn to a more solitary life, passed into Palestine, where he spent a similar period in the severest penance, till […]

The FCC versus Internet Freedom
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The FCC versus Internet Freedom

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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It’s time to move beyond giving indignant speeches.

Lent With Mary
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Lent With Mary

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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During Lent, we generally think about Jesus’ suffering and death. However, how often do we think about the suffering of his mother, Mary? A few days ago I stopped by the adoration chapel to ask Jesus what he wanted of me this Lent. The answer came back clearly: suffer and pray alongside the one who […]

On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’
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On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com, Those in Need
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As news of the untimely death of Brother Paul O’Donnell spreads, there will be many remembrances by those who knew him well. Perhaps none more than Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo. Brother Paul distinguished himself, and the Church, by being the constant companion and supporter of the Schindler family as their severely brain damaged daughter, Terri, […]

Reflections for Sunday, March 1, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, March 1, 2015

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Second Sunday of Lent Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion 1st Reading: Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15-18 2nd Reading: Romans 8:31-34 Responsorial: Psalm 116:10,15-19 Gospel: Mark 9:2-10 Lent, A Time to Experience the Transforming Power of Christ He was transfigured before them. (Mark 9:2) Have you ever wondered why Jesus was transfigured? He never announced it. […]

the Memorial of St. Tarasius
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the Memorial of St. Tarasius

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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TARASIUS was born at Constantinople about the middle of the eighth century, of a noble family. His mother Eucratia, brought him up in the practice of the most eminent virtues. By his talents and virtue he gained the esteem of all, and was raised to the greatest honors of the empire, being made consul, and […]

How to Make Heaven Rejoice
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How to Make Heaven Rejoice

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Catechesis, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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The silence truly had been golden. I hadn’t heard or spoken many words for a couple of days — save for at the Liturgy of the Hours in the chapel. The immersion in the silence had been one of the most special, holiest gifts I could receive. That had been one of the overriding reasons […]

Poem: "Baby Bump? Blob?"
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Poem: “Baby Bump? Blob?”

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Poetry
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Baby Bump? Blob? The rulers have babies; The ruled, warts and blobs. Preborn ruler babies, ‘Til birth, sweet heartthrobs. The princess, with child; The peasants, cell masses. Children are frowned on For the low lower classes. Preborn white scion daughter, So good for the nation. Why not budding black blobs? Location, location, location. Anglo aristocrat […]

Obama and Post-American World
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Here’s the Guy Rudy Is Talking About

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Columnists, Featured
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Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party No. 47544

Violent Population Control Continues in China
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Violent Population Control Continues in China

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence used by the Chinese Family Planning police continues to violate the rights of Chinese women, men, and their unborn children. In November 2013, the Chinese government changed the regulations to […]

The Hijacking of the Catholic Mind
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The Hijacking of the Catholic Mind

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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Dear William, In your last letter you expressed concern over fears a wave of polarization on the internet is hijacking the traditionalist movement, listing two individuals in particular.  Whether or not they are “traditionalists” (for reasons both have documented clear, they do not use the label, however they hold many views sympathetic to what your […]

St. Matthias
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St. Matthias

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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AFTER our blessed Lord’s Ascension His disciples met together, with Mary His mother and the eleven apostles, in an upper room at Jerusalem. The little company numbered no more than one hundred and twenty souls. They were waiting for the promised coining of the Holy Ghost, and they persevered in prayer. Meanwhile there was a […]

Obama: Faith-Based Groups Must Refer Refugee Children for Abortions
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Obama: Faith-Based Groups Must Refer Refugee Children for Abortions

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by on Feb 23, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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The Obama administration is getting ready to issue new rules requiring charities to provide abortions to child refugees entering the US without their parents. Faith-based groups say this is a contravention of the rights of parents and a violation of the conscience rights of faith-based groups helping resettle the children. The public has until Monday […]

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: The Joy of Siblings

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by on Feb 23, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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The memories of my first born getting to know his baby sister are forever etched in my mind. From the second she arrived home from the hospital, he watched her in awe and stood proudly beside her. He tried to include her in his games and delighted when she began to smile and giggle at […]