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The Firstborn Of All Creation

November 20, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Firstborn Of All Creation

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER The Solemnity Of Christ The King (YR C) Readings: 2 Samuel 5:1-3 Col. 1:12-20 Luke 23:35-43 In the first reading today, we hear about the occasion when all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and asked him to be the king of all of Israel. At that time David had been king over Judah, but on this occasion the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah were united and David became king over the entire Chosen People. This fulfilled God’s initial promise to David when he was anointed as the successor of Saul, the king of Israel, by the Prophet Samuel. This reading, however, has even greater importance for us because when the Angel…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… The “Splash!” Heard Round The World

November 19, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… The “Splash!” Heard Round The World

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK The widening ripples continue to spread throughout the Catholic world resulting from a simple series of splashes in the Tiber one October day in Rome. The effect of one young man’s courage to stand up against desecration, confusion, and sacrilege has had a profound effect, encouraging and galvanizing loyal and faithful Catholics the world over. Many watching, helpless to do more than pray in their homes and churches far from the Eternal City, were overjoyed to see the answer to so many calls to Heaven lifted so often and by so many asking for divine intervention against the spreading confusion of revolution and heresy. That revolution is fomented in the name of the Church and…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . We Need An Authentic Understanding Of The Development Of Doctrine

November 18, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . We Need An Authentic Understanding Of The Development Of Doctrine

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND In the beginning of the Letter of Jude in the New Testament the Apostle uses a phrase which is of great importance as we consider what it means to guard the deposit of faith. The letter was written to deal with a similar smoke of confusion in the early Church as we are experiencing in the Church today. The fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith were being challenged. Jude writes: “Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” This “once for all” still stands — and it must…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

November 15, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: In a recent weekly bulletin, Fr. George Rutler of the Church of St. Michael in New York City offered these perceptive comments: “ ‘Secularism’ is a religion with a non-creedal creed censuring those who do not believe in unbelief. Young people in the United States who claim to have ‘No Religion’ — called ‘Nones’ — now outnumber Catholics, and they have their own prophets, redefining morality and predicting apocalypse by carbon emissions. ‘Politically incorrect’ thinkers are banned from universities as heretics. Attorney General William Barr recently exposed this in an address at the law school of Notre Dame University: “The secular project ‘is taking on all the trappings of religion, including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the…Continue Reading

Guarding The Deposit Of The Faith

November 14, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Guarding The Deposit Of The Faith

Bringing An Era To An End

November 13, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bringing An Era To An End

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: Mal. 3:19-20a 2 Thess. 3:7-12 Luke 21:5-19 In the Gospel reading today our Lord tells His listeners that the day would come when the Temple would be destroyed and not one stone would be left upon another. When the people asked what the sign would be to let them know when these things would happen, Jesus warned them about people who would come in His Name, claiming to be Him. He also said there would be wars and insurrections, earthquakes, famines, and plagues, and great and terrifying signs in the sky. Although many of these things have been happening ever since our Lord spoke these words, the signs…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… Life Is Beautiful With Final Judgment In View

November 12, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Life Is Beautiful With Final Judgment In View

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK The prospect of final judgment brings negative impressions, images, or emotions to mind for many. Sometimes it also does so for some who claim our Catholic faith. As a step along the way to spiritual maturity, we must often be purged of our childish or worldly impressions. With an authentic and deeper faith, the prospect of meeting God, the ultimate arbiter of good and evil, at the end of our lives is something not only to look forward to, but which is helpful in daily life. Acknowledgment of the fact of final judgment comes to the fore each November when we turn from the first day of the month, celebrating all the saints in glory,…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . God’s Plan… Embrace Glorious Chastity

November 11, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . God’s Plan… Embrace Glorious Chastity

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND (Editor’s Note: As Bishop Strickland has been traveling, he wasn’t able to submit a column for this week’s Wanderer. Instead, we reprint here, with permission, his reflections on chastity from his Bishop’s Blog of February 14, 2019.) + + + In the year 2019, we live in a world that’s off kilter. One of the deepest roots of the present chaos is the lack of willingness to embrace Glorious Chastity. I specifically use the word “glorious” because I believe it is God’s plan that obedience to His will with regard to this virtue is a key that will unlock God’s wondrous plan for every individual person and for all of humanity. Rather than Glorious Chastity,…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

November 8, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. My church is one of five in a cluster. The two bigger parishes have regular Sunday Masses, one at 8:30 and one at 10:45 a.m. The third largest has a 4:00 p.m. Mass on Saturday, while the two smallest have a 6:00 p.m. Saturday Mass once a month. Some people are upset at having only one Mass a month and are talking about a Word Service every Sunday. We have two deacons. What are the rules on this? The distances between the parishes are too much for older people, and our priest is no spring chicken. — D.H., via e-mail. A. You have described a dilemma facing many older Catholics who still desire to go to weekly Mass, but…Continue Reading

Faith In Eternal Life

November 6, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Faith In Eternal Life

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: 2 Macc. 7:1-2, 9-14 2 Thess. 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-38 In the first reading today, we hear about three of the seven heroic brothers who were all put to death on the same day because they refused to eat pork as commanded by the pagan king. Most heroic of all was their mother who encouraged them all in their martyrdom and then suffered martyrdom herself. If she were not expecting to see her sons again, her actions would have been pious but foolish and futile. In the three we hear about, it is inspiring to see the boldness these men had as they faced death. Only one reason can…Continue Reading