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Repent And Believe In The Gospel

February 15, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Repent And Believe In The Gospel

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER First Sunday Of Lent (YR B) Readings: Gen. 9:8-15Peter 3:18-22Mark 1:12-15 “This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel.” These words, taken from today’s Gospel, are the first words our Lord spoke in His public ministry. In fact, as St. Mark records the events, they are the first words our Lord spoke after facing the temptations of Satan in the desert.Perhaps it is part of God’s Providence that this year we hear these words twice in a month’s time; we just heard them on January 24.Before considering these words, we need to look at the context the Church gives us. In the second reading, St.…Continue Reading

The Book Of Jonah And President Biden

February 13, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Book Of Jonah And President Biden

By FR. JOHN LANKEIT (Editor’s Note: Fr. John Lankeit, who delivered the homily below on January 24, 2021, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, is the rector of Saints Simon and Jude Cathedral of the Diocese of Phoenix. In this homily, Fr. Lankeit urges Catholics to pray for the conversion of President Joe Biden, so that he will renounce abortion and other anti-life, anti-religious beliefs and practices.(The readings for that Sunday were: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor. 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20.) + + The greatest challenge for faithful, traditional, orthodox Catholics in 2021 is not political…despite the oppressive presence of politics in every aspect of our daily lives.No, the greatest challenge for faithful, traditional, orthodox Catholics in…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

February 12, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. Why are there conflicting readings on how Jesus called His disciples? In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus saw Simon and his brother Andrew out at sea and told them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” In John, when John the Baptist saw Jesus at a distance, He said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” After this, two of his disciples left to follow Jesus. One of them was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, who told Peter, “We have found the Messiah.” Why is John’s Gospel different? — B.H., Minnesota.A. Perhaps because John was an eyewitness to the event, while Matthew, Mark, and Luke got their information from other sources. John says that Andrew was…Continue Reading

When The Truth Is Hate And Love Is A Lie

February 11, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on When The Truth Is Hate And Love Is A Lie

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK “Rachel” Levine is a man who thinks he’s a woman.Ordinarily, that wouldn’t of necessity be a problem because throughout history a lot of people have thought a lot of things that weren’t true. When it did happen others might have simply shaken their heads and said “tsk, tsk” and generally been kind and understanding about the whole thing, especially if said delusional is a patient in a mental hospital.But these are not ordinary times. Everything is new, improved, modern, and updated. Everybody’s okay. Kids especially know this is true. All we have to do is ask the kids what they think and we’ll all finally get it right.That was the response by a middle-aged leftist…Continue Reading

Celebrating The Troops Of St. George

February 10, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Celebrating The Troops Of St. George

By FR. JAMES ALTMAN Dear family, this meditation is, as hopefully it always is, on Truth.Friday night and Saturday morning of this past week, I had the privilege of being with the Troops of St. George, the Catholic answer to the insanity that has overwhelmed Scouting in America.Sadly, confusion reigns in the Boy Scouts, and as I have said to you many times, confusion is not from God. Remember, Jesus would not have endured His Passion — the arrest, the trial, the mocking, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the climb to Calvary, the crucifixion — only to leave us confused about Truth. Clarity is from Heaven, confusion is from hell.Well, here you have the confusion in the Boy Scouts…Continue Reading

Live As Children Of Light

February 8, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Live As Children Of Light

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Sixth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR B) Readings: Lev. 13:1-2, 44-461 Cor. 10:31-11:1Mark 1:40-45 Today’s Gospel reading is always cause for a chuckle. We hear about a leper who comes to Jesus to ask for healing. When our Lord heals the man, He tells him: “See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest.” The first reading tells us what happened to a person who contracts leprosy. They have to keep their heads bare, tear their clothes, men had to muffle their beards, and they had to cry out “Unclean, unclean.”Perhaps the most difficult part was that those with leprosy had to live apart from family and friends, completely outside the…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

February 5, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: Few commentators write more lucidly than William Kilpatrick on the abyss that exists between Islam and Christianity, despite wishful thinking by some Church leaders that both are similar in many respects. Here are comments that appeared some months ago on his Turning Point Project blog:“Though Muslims believe in God, he is not the same God that Christians believe in. Rather, Allah is a willful God who is not bound by the laws of reason. Like an absolute and capricious tyrant, his laws are arbitrary and subject to change. The remarkable lack of scientific progress in the Muslim world is simply the logical consequence of belief in this erratic God.“Because it borrows from Christianity and Judaism, Islam is an…Continue Reading

Practicing Catholics

February 4, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Practicing Catholics

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK A Catholic acquaintance recounts having been asked, while being interviewed in preparation for hiring by a particular agency concerned with national security, “Have you slept with your friend’s girlfriend or wife?” His impulse was to answer, “No, I’m Catholic,” but only yes or no answers were allowed.That reminded me of an occasion in the Army or Navy when I was filling out benefits paperwork with the help of a woman who asked, “Do you have any dependents?,” which means children, for purposes of financial support. And I responded, “No. I’m not married.” She came right back with, “Good for you.”Before I realized what was happening I had confessed publicly what it means to be a…Continue Reading

Our Disposition To Love

February 3, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Our Disposition To Love

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR B) Readings: Job 7:1-4, 6-71 Cor. 9:16-19, 22-23Mark 1:29-39 In the midst of his agony, Job speaks of man’s life on Earth being a drudgery, his days like those of a hireling; he is like a slave who longs for shade and a hireling who waits for his wages. Job looked at his situation that had dragged on for months and saw no hope. He assumed he would never see happiness again.I suspect that anyone who has endured intense suffering has experienced the sentiments of Job. The combination of physical suffering, mental anguish, and lack of sleep are very difficult to rise above.However, St. Paul gives us a means by…Continue Reading

Remember The Ninevites

February 1, 2021 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Remember The Ninevites

By FR. JAMES ALTMAN Dear family, our meditation today is all about two of the Four Last Things. Remember, the Four Last Things are: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. So today we will ponder what happens after Death and after Judgment: Heaven or Hell.As I was writing this two thoughts immediately came to me.Firstly, about the salvation part, how a lot of non-Catholics like to say, “I’m saved” and — sadly — how many Catholics now run around acting as if they were saved, as if what they do — or do not do — does not matter very much. They act like they do not have to pick up their crosses daily and carry them all day long. As…Continue Reading