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Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel
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Front Row With Francis: What is Wisdom?

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by on Apr 11, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, The Shepherd's Voice
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Continuing with his back to basics approach to catechesis, the Holy Father used this week’s general audience to begin a new series of reflections, this time on the gifts of the Spirit. When you ask people what the gifts of the Spirit are, you frequently hear such things as speaking in tongues, prophesy, healing, etc. […]

Womanly Wisdom
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Womanly Wisdom

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by on Oct 16, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Women
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For the past few months, the image followed me. At work, I shuddered as I came across it in one of our study workbooks. This week again at a TOB seminar, there it was in its full, blazing glory: Caravaggio’s depiction of “Doubting Thomas” sticking his probing finger into the glorified wound of the Risen […]

The Beginning of Wisdom
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The Beginning of Wisdom

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by on Jan 18, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ
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An old adage tells us that theology is the queen of the sciences, philosophy her handmaid. This means not simply that heavenly wisdom is nobler or more edifying than earthly knowledge. It speaks also of the epistemological importance of the theistic conviction: objective reality depends upon the existence of the Supreme Subject. Philosophy, in the […]

What Is Truth: Revelation versus Man's Vain Imagination
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What Is Truth: Revelation versus Man’s Vain Imagination

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by on Dec 12, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31). As I slowly reread The Confessions, savoring every jot and tittle, I am struck by the intensity of Saint Augustine’s search for truth—rather, for the Truth. Aurelius Augustine embraced many falsehoods during his life, but every successive identity he assumed […]

On the Wisdom of God
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On the Wisdom of God

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by on Nov 14, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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We testify that Jesus of Nazareth is the Incarnate Word, the very Self-expression of the Deity. This Word is the Father’s all-encompassing Articulation, the Idea in which all ideas subsist. It is in and of the Father, yet somehow distinct. In the Old Testament, this Being typically bears the name Wisdom. Wisdom is described as […]

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Awakening

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by on Sep 29, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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God is love, therefore we exist.  The Divine Goodness is the pulsing root of all things.  We are created for communion with Him, conjured from nothingness to behold the Beautiful One. Creation is a great romance: “For You love all the things that exist” (Wisdom 11:24).  The God of Jacob is not merely the Craftsman, […]