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  • Sight And Hearing; Faith Knowledge And Love Knowledge

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 2, 2014
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    People need to hear the word of God and to see a vision of His plan in order to nurture both faith and love in their hearts, and to bring Christians together.

    Thursday of First Week in Course 2014 Lumen Fidei Everyone who loves the parent loves the child, so we can’t say we love God and avoid loving our neighbor. We are all children of God, so we must love one another. In fact, one of the main reasons we come to hear the word and share the Body ...read more

  • Infinite Love For Infinite Sadness Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 10, 2017
     | 2,869 views

    To enjoy infinite love curing our infinite sadness, we need to live by the moral code Jesus taught, the code of loving even our enemies.

    Thursday of 2nd Week in Course 2017 Joy of the Gospel “Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.” Those words of Pope Francis ended our reflection last Thursday on the encyclical Joy of the Gospel. Now God’s love is unconditional. He loves even jerks, even sinners like me and ...read more

  • Eucharistic Fix- Part 2 Series

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jun 29, 2018
     | 3,659 views

    In the study, one person related not having a fear of death, and another related that death and resurrection are a continual process following the psychic deaths she had while in her addiction.

    20B I want to continue with an article I read from a university in Santa Barbara about Catholic Mass and its healing implications for the addicted person. In the study, a psychological sense of alienation and loneliness appears to be a common experience for the addict, because the drug of ...read more

  • Neither Positivism Nor Scientism Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 5, 2016
     | 3,394 views

    There must be a dialogue between science and faith, but it must also be an unequal dialogue; faith trumps the claims of any science that denies God.

    Thursday of Fourth Week in Lent 2016 Joy of the Gospel In this fourth week of Lent, the week of Laetare Sunday–Joy Sunday– it is quite appropriate to continue our series on Pope Francis’s encyclical, the Joy of the Gospel. Let’s be clear that joy and enjoyment are not ...read more

  • Grant Us Godly Politicians Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 21, 2017
     | 4,005 views

    "I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor! "

    Thursday of Third Week in Course 2017 Joy of the Gospel Ss Timothy and Titus Today’s feast is a challenge to those whose denomination teaches that the Church is not hierarchical. Most of these denominations consider themselves Bible fundamentalists, but today’s readings clearly show that, from the ...read more

  • Why Did The "Sinners" Love Hanging Out With Jesus?

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Dec 30, 2013
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     | 6,755 views

    It's a fact worth pondering: the tax collectors and sinners LIKED being with Jesus. That's not usually how the lost feel around us. What did Jesus have that we don't?

    AN IMPORTANT FACT: The tax collectors and “sinners” liked hanging out with Jesus. - Matthew 9:10. - It’s easy to rush past verse 10 and get to the rest of this story, but it’s worth settling for a moment here and thinking about its implications. The tax collectors and ...read more

  • Attitude And Altitude

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Mar 23, 2013
     | 4,591 views

    If Jesus is our model, the way up is down.

    Title: Attitude and Altitude Text: Philippians 2:5-11 Thesis: If Jesus is our model, the way up is down. Introduction On March 13 the Roman Catholic Church elected Pope Francis who is now Head of the Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He became a priest in 1969 and made his way to ...read more

  • Free To Serve, Or Not Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 14, 2015
     | 3,785 views

    We will be judged on our service to the poor--but do our social systems make it easy or difficult to do so?

    Thursday of 33rd week in course 2015 Joy of the Gospel Two things tie our Scriptures together today. The obvious one is that they are texts written in or about a time of injustice and disaster. In the first reading, the Syrian king Antiochus IV has decreed that all his subjects would act like ...read more

  • How Good It Feels To Come Back To Him Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 23, 2014
     | 2,909 views

    In St. Augustine we see the paradigm of the sinner become saint.

    Feast of St. Augustine 2014 Evangelii Gaudium As we begin our reflections on Pope Francis’s exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, we happily find the cosmic convergence of these greetings from St. Paul to the Corinthians and the words of St. Matthew’s Gospel with the annual commemoration of ...read more

  • How Can We Fail To Share That Love Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 6, 2014
     | 3,732 views

    Being a Christian is the result of an encounter with Jesus Christ, giving life a new horizon and decisive direction.

    Thursday of 23rd Week in Course and Commemoration of 9/11 Today we remember the events of September 11, 2001. That day, called nine-eleven, the whole world changed. In the Muslim world, it was an anniversary of the battle that raised the siege of Vienna, a huge defeat for the Muslim Turks, and ...read more

  • The Need For Contemplation Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 30, 2016
     | 4,357 views

    Our mission to others must be underlaid with a foundation of personal devotion to Jesus Christ.

    Thursday in 6th Week of Easter 2016 Joy of the Gospel St. Paul’s relationship with the church at Corinth was long, fruitful, and fraught with problems. But it is Corinth that gives us testimony of the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles. “Before AD 50, an area 62 feet ...read more

  • The Enemy Within Series

    Contributed by Terry Williams on Aug 26, 2013
     | 4,437 views

    Help the church recognize apostasy within the church by recognizing a false Christian.

    Sermon 4 of 11 Jude: A Call to Defend The Enemy Within Jude 4 Passage 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus ...read more

  • Useless Or Useful? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 8, 2014
     | 5,649 views

    Mercy is the greatest of the virtues in the external manifestation.

    Thursday of the 32nd Week in Course Joy of the Gospel St. Paul had a dilemma. One of his converts in Asia, Philemon, lived in Colossae. Philemon’s slave, Onesimus, had escaped and probably stolen property in the process. Escaped slaves were dealt with according to their owner’s whim ...read more

  • Open The Doors Of The Church Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 29, 2014
     | 4,358 views

    Jesus enjoins us to do the will of the Father, but learning how to do God's will is a lifelong journey.

    Thursday of the 1st Week in Advent Joy of the Gospel When I read this passage from the great prophet of Advent, the Hebrew priest Isaiah, my memory goes back almost ten years to our pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Both the Old and New Testaments contain a recurring theme, one we see most perfectly ...read more

  • Catch Fire With The Gospel Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 18, 2014
     | 4,187 views

    We can do our part to set our parish on fire with devotion to the joy of the Gospel

    Thursday of 29th Week in Course Joy of the Gospel St. Paul had during his Christian life on earth at least one experience that he characterized as being lifted up to the heavens. He needed that consolation because of the hard work of evangelization he was called to perform. He saw the ...read more