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The Difference the Spirit Makes
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The Difference the Spirit Makes

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by on May 15, 2016 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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As a teen, I thought the clergy were supposed to do everything. We laity were just called to pray, pay, and obey. Oh yes, and keep the commandments, of course. The original 10 seemed overwhelming enough. Then I discovered the Sermon on the Mount and nearly passed out. Perhaps this is why many inactive Catholics […]

Holy Spirit, Inspire Me to Speak
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Holy Spirit, Inspire Me to Speak

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by on Apr 05, 2016 in Evangelization, Featured
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Holy Week and Easter Sunday, the 2016 versions, are in our rearview mirror. That means we are in the midst of the Easter Season – a.k.a. Eastertide or Paschal Time. To exemplify the importance the season holds on the Church liturgical calendar, Eastertide lasts 50 days, longer than both Lent and Advent. St. Athanasius reckoned […]

The Promise of the Spirit
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The Promise of the Spirit

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by on May 24, 2015 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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Acts 2:1-11 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT The Gang of Twelve was in the house. The Big Three, Peter, James, and John, Mary the Mother of God, Matthias, the newly ordained Apostle, and 120 disciples waited on the Lord to produce what he […]

Reflections for Sunday, May 24, 2015
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Reflections for Sunday, May 24, 2015

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by on May 20, 2015 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion Mass Readings: 1st Reading Acts 2:1-11 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 Responsorial: Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34 Gospel: John 20:19-23 Pentecost, A Time to Say Yes to Work of the Holy Spirit and No to Fear The doors were locked. (John 20:19) Fear can be such […]

The Power of the Spirit
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The Power of the Spirit

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by on May 13, 2015 in Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ
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“Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” With those words to the apostle Thomas, Jesus bestowed a wonderful blessing upon all of those disciples who chose to follow him yet never actually heard him preach a sermon or saw him heal a leper. While walking the earth, our Lord had contemporaries whom […]

A New Pentecost
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A New Pentecost

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by on Jul 15, 2013 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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What Catholics typically call “the First Pentecost” was actually a New Pentecost itself.

Pentecost: Newness, Harmony and Mission
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Pentecost: Newness, Harmony and Mission

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by on May 20, 2013 in Featured, The Shepherd's Voice
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we contemplate and re-live in the liturgy the outpouring of the Holy Spirit sent by the risen Christ upon his Church; an event of grace which filled the Upper Room in Jerusalem and then spread throughout the world. But what happened on that day, so distant from us and yet […]

The Jews and the “New Pentecost”
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The Jews and the “New Pentecost”

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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A peculiar thing happened on the way to the present day from Pentecost: the Church suddenly stopped calling the Jews to conversion. Sure, if we are being honest, we must admit that the Church is now reticent to explicitly call anyone who dwells beyond the fold into the one true religion, but in the decades […]

Pentecost, A Time to Experience a Fresh Infilling of the Holy Spirit
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Pentecost, A Time to Experience a Fresh Infilling of the Holy Spirit

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by on May 22, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled […]

The Difference that the Spirit Makes
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The Difference that the Spirit Makes

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by on Jun 11, 2011 in Columnists, Live in Christ
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As a teen, I thought the clergy were supposed to do everything.   We laity were just called to pray, pay, and obey.  Oh yes, and keep the commandments, of course.  The original 10 seemed overwhelming enough.  Then I discovered the Sermon on the Mount and nearly passed out.  Perhaps this is why many inactive Catholics […]

Called to the Upper Room
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Called to the Upper Room

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by on Jun 02, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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After Jesus ascended to heaven at Mount Olivet, the Apostles returned to the Upper Room in Jerusalem and devoted themselves to prayer (Acts 1:12-14). A novena is nine days of prayer. The nine days of prayer between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost Sunday marked the first of all novenas. At different times in our lives, God […]

Like a Mighty Wind
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Like a Mighty Wind

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by on Jun 01, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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As we approach the celebration of Pentecost we pause to consider the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit.  The first person of the Trinity is God the Father.  Known as the Creator of the universe, he is awesome.  And then there is Jesus the Son, the second person of the Trinity.  Jesus, […]