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A Leaven In The World… Take A Knee For God, Not Man

June 10, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Take A Knee For God, Not Man

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK After the killing of George Floyd by a corrupt white police officer in Minneapolis, America took to the streets in protest. Peaceful protesters were quickly infiltrated by bad actors, likely funded by nefarious interests under the guise of Black Lives Matter and other causes, and things turned violent. We don’t know for certain if the motive which took another life in that case was racism or simple colorblind hatred. It would take a trial and witnesses, even better a confession, to uncover the true reason for such evil. But the result was a mass gut reaction verdict of racism based on the video of a white on black assault resulting in death. Once the flames…Continue Reading

Do You Long For Jesus In The Eucharist?

June 9, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Do You Long For Jesus In The Eucharist?

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER By Solemnity Of The Body And Blood Of Christ (YR A) Readings: Deut. 8:2-3, 14b-16a 1 Cor. 10:16-17 John 6:51-58 Given the events of the past three months, Moses’ statement to the people of Israel that God was testing them by affliction to see whether or not it was their intention to keep His commands can be applied to our time in a particular way. This is especially true with regard to the Eucharist. With all the churches being closed down, does our heart yearn for Jesus in the Eucharist, or do we find it freeing to be dispensed from Mass on Sundays? Has the hiatus from Mass given us a new appreciation for the Mass…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . Choose To Live Liturgically

June 8, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . Choose To Live Liturgically

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND I write on June 1, 2020, the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. A relatively new addition to the Liturgical Calendar, but a very ancient title attributed to our Lady. On February 11, 2018, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a decree, at the request of Pope Francis, to inscribe this memorial in the General Roman Calendar on the Monday following Pentecost. It is to take precedence over any other memorials. The title “Mary, Mother of the Church” stretches all the way back to the wonderful account in the beloved disciple John’s Gospel where Jesus entrusted His Mother to St. John from the cross, right…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

June 5, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

  Editor’s Note: We are in the process of reducing our supply of books and are offering them to interested readers at a substantial discount. The books available, all in mint condition, are Catholic Replies and Catholic Replies 2 (both $17.95), All Generations Will Call Me Blessed and Who Do You Say That I Am? (both $10.95), and Catholicism & Reason (Apologetics), Catholicism & Scripture (Salvation History), and Catholicism & Life (Commandments and Sacraments), each $14.95. The books can be had for 50 percent off for 1 to 25 books, 60 percent off for 26 to 50 books, and 70 percent off for over 50 books. You can learn more about each of these books by visiting www.crpublications.com. Don’t order…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… Coronavirus Cult Vs. Christianity?

June 3, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Coronavirus Cult Vs. Christianity?

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Christ offers the fact of salvation through the Catholic faith. This is a reality which guides us through the vicissitudes of history. Changing circumstances through time and varying place by place since the Lord’s Passion, death, and Resurrection have included the eruptions of false cults and syncretist transmogrifications of the true faith, challenging Christians to recognize what is false and reject it for the sake of salvation in the truth alone. The Lord’s command, “I am the Lord thy God. You shall not have false gods before me,” binds us to recognize when lies are mixed with truth and to keep the faith pure and without admixture of superstition and manmade cults. Unlike the world,…Continue Reading

Rich In Kindness And Fidelity

June 2, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Rich In Kindness And Fidelity

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of The Most Holy Trinity (YR A) Readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 2 Cor. 13:11-13 John 3:16-18 We used to hear about a distinction made between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. The God of the Old Testament was said to be vindictive while the God of the New Testament was said to be merciful. This is ridiculous on several levels, but suffice it to say that God cannot change, so He clearly did not decide to give up being vengeful and suddenly begin being merciful just because Jesus came into the world. Indeed, when we look at the first reading today we notice the way God reveals Himself…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . We Must Defend The Embryonic Human Person

June 1, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . We Must Defend The Embryonic Human Person

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND I was once a baby. If someone had killed that baby, he would have killed me. I would not be writing this. In fact, I was once an embryo and then a child in the womb and had someone killed me at that stage of my life, he would have killed me. That’s the point the director of The Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, England, made in a 2016 paper on the ethics of embryo research. David Albert Jones asked: “What then is the significance of destroying a human embryo?” He answered with a clarity all too often missing: “It is destroying a human being at the first stage of his or her life.” Christians…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

May 29, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. You recently wrote about Reiki as something not in accord with Church teachings. What about yoga? — L.S., via email. A. In his book Catholics and the New Age, Fr. Mitch Pacwa said that the word “yoga” is Sanskrit for “yoke” or “union” and, in Hinduism, it describes “the general category of various kinds of disciplines meant to unite a person with the divine. Yoga can refer to physical (hatha), mental (raja), sexual (tantra), or other disciplines to achieve enlightenment” (p. 225). He cautioned Catholics to remember that “Hindus did not devise these exercises for athletic limbering or muscle building. All were meant to lead the practitioner to enlightenment and the awareness of his or her inner divinity” (p.…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World . . . Pandemic Brings Unseen Into View

May 27, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World . . . Pandemic Brings Unseen Into View

By FR KEVIN M. CUSICK The Church and her work for souls, unseen and unknown so often by so many in a world which has made God so invisible, has in some ways become more tangible in these months when so much of “normal” life has ground to a halt. Many of our physical activities and concerns, our business and mad rushing have been forcibly taken away. The quotidian distractions have been lifted so that other concerns can come more clearly into view. Many families have spent more time together in the last two months than they have in years. Children have been sighted outdoors, doing such things as riding bikes. This is a rare thing indeed in the computer…Continue Reading

Manifest The Gifts Of The Holy Spirit

May 26, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Manifest The Gifts Of The Holy Spirit

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of Pentecost (YR A) Readings: Acts 2:1-11 1 Cor. 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23 In the second reading, St. Paul tells us: “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God.” In these verses, St. Paul reveals the Most Holy Trinity, whose feast we celebrate next week, but today, we are reminded that the Holy Spirit is God. Many people think about how wonderful it would have been to be alive in the Holy Land when our Lord was living there. Resisting the temptation to make ancient Israel some kind of fairy-tale existence, these people rightly…Continue Reading