Episodes
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Our Response of Faith
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Faith is our way to respond to God. It is the act that cooperates with grace and makes salvation possible. It was demonstrated by Abraham and Mary.
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Monday Jul 15, 2019
Scripture Review
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
It is not uncommon for people to be told that Catholics do not read the Scripture or considers it that important. But, when we review sections 134-141 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church we find that is not the case.
In fact, scripture is seen as a way in which we can come to experience the presence of Christ, just like we can in the Blessed Sacrament.
Scripture is important!
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Sunday Jul 14, 2019
15th Ordinary Sunday 2019
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Today the Chruch provides us the reading of the Good Samaritan and allows us to reflect on just who we are.
Are we the Lawyer who asks what is the least that we can do and still make heaven? If so, why do we want to do so little? Is it because we want to compromise with sin and only have a legalistic religion and not a loving relationship?
Or are we the Levite, just a religious person who in following the laws of God, use the letter of the law about not becoming unclean to prevent us from really being a help to those in need?
Or are we the priest, who like the Levite does not help someone in need because of a religious position that would be ruined if we, like Jesus, dined with tax collectors, harlots, and other known sinners?
Or do we become Jesus in the Samaritan?
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Saturday Jul 13, 2019
Available to All
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
One of the greatest lies about the Catholic faith is simply that it wanted the public ignorant of the Bible. This is due to a false narrative about the Church and its teaching of scripture and how it has been the main organization preserving and promoting the knowledge found in the writings we now call the Bible.
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Friday Jul 12, 2019
Both Together
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Can you read a book like, The Count of Monte Cristo or Gone With the Wind, judging them and what they are all about with the values of today's society? No, we cannot. For these works are about the era in which they are set in. To try and force a "politically correct" ideology from either of them would destroy the sublime beauty and message that each contains.
In a similar way, we need to guard against reading the Old Testament as a Christianized account of ancient history and forget the society that produced it and from which we are given a truly Divine message.
But, how do we do that? What is the central theme that runs through the Bible like a scarlet thread?
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Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Most Important Part
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Whenever the east of Pentecost comes around there is always someone who brings up the fact that the reading that tells us what makes that day a historical event is not found in the Gospel reading but rather in the first reading and not the Gospel. As a result, you hear someone ask, "Why not move that reading so it is the last thing you hear before the homily?"
Such thinking does not understand just how important the Gospels are. For in them we get everything that the Bible is about in the clearest possible way.
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Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Not Without Value
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
How many times have you heard someone say that they focus on a certain portion of scripture like the New Testament or the Epistles because they are the only relevant portion of the Bible for them? Sadly it is something we hear all too often. But it ought not to be so.
All scripture. Every part. Whether in Genesis, Maccabees, Romans or a Gospel, all are given to us by God and can benefit our souls. We just need to recognize that and live that every day.
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Books of the Bible
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
In section 120 of the Catechism, we are told just what the books of the Bible are. While it does not expressly explain why those are the books, it is clear from history and the inner testimony of these books that there was a gradual development of how each book and it's portions came to be scriptural.
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Sense of the Scripture
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Don't you hate it when people misunderstand you? Like you could be giving some basic instructions about how to do a math problem or a task at work or even directions, but if someone does not follow your instructions in a proper way, things go wrong.
This is why the Church explains the ways in which we can properly understand the Bible and not lean unto our own understanding about it.
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Sunday Jul 07, 2019
14th Ordinary Sunday 2019
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Today's reading tells us about the Kingdon of God being near to us. And, it is. Just maybe not as you would think. For the kingdom is present to us in the moments of our suffering, not just when we are healed and prosperous.
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