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A Big Win: Youcat Youth Prayer Book CATHOLICMOM.COM - June 14, 2013 ... thank you very much. There are ten tips/steps and they're written in the vein I'd expect from the Youcat. They're helpful but not complicated, simple but not down-your-nose, insightful but not so deep my brain cracked in two. The format of the two-week prayer book, the first section, includes a morning and an evening option. They include ancient prayers, traditional prayers, and psalms. Each one takes approximately two minutes, depending on the number of ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/t4a2ET_0r7E/
More USMLE Step 1 From a Catholic Perspective MEDICAL MATINS - June 6, 2013 ... is a special peace precisely because it coexists with those emotions: it withstands them. I contrast my Step 1 experience with my MCAT experience. My faith was much weaker three years ago, and the test was something I was doing for Jesus. I was demoralized by the questions and disappointed by my score. I couldn't believe I'd done so badly, I felt terrible. My peace was gone, washed away by emotions. That was a peace that wasn't founded on trust in Our Lord. It's fundamentally weak. In ...http://medicalmatins.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-usmle-step-1-from-catholic.html
Pope Francis to Future Diplomats: No to Careerism! NEWS.VA - June 6, 2013 ... address, the Holy Father reminded the students that they must cultivate a deep spiritual life in order to attain the "inner freedom" that is necessary for their future work. He also warned against ambition, and once again denounced careerism, which he called "a leprosy." Pope Francis looked to Blessed John XXIII as a model for the aspiring diplomats, recalling the care his predecessor always took "in guarding his soul, even in the midst of the most varied ecclesiastical and ...http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-to-future-diplomats-no-to-careerism
Music is arguably the supreme language of human communication and ... SCIENCE AND RELIGION -- THOUGHTS ALONG THE WAY - June 2, 2013 ... Church, was tormented by the success of science. "The reasoning of the worst materialists imposes on my mind . . .unceasingly making new advances, science will explain everything that exists. The gloom melts but soon returns with agonizing thoughts of an uncreated world locked into endless space and time." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Those who ask me to believe. . . that reason is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless matter. . . are asking ...http://reflectionsreligionscience.blogspot.com/2013/06/music-is-arguably-supreme-language-of.html
A Late May Miscellaney of People, Places, Events, Et Cetera THE JOURNEY OF A BISHOP - May 25, 2013 ... in the gospel. It is allowing God to take the lead from the start of our vocational journey until its last stages. For Paul, this meant being taken as a prisoner in chains to Rome. There, he would give his life for Christ. But Christians believe there is no chaining of the Word of God. The Book of Acts makes this point by concluding with two adverbs to indicate that God's Good News of salvation was proclaimed at the heart of the Roman Empire "openly and unhindered." What an encouraging ...http://archbishopterry.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-late-may-miscellaney-of-people-places.html
Screwtape Letters and the Catechism of the Catholic Church CATHOLICMOM.COM - May 16, 2013 ... in sin, I decided to construct lesson plans utilizing "The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis and cross-referencing the chapters with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. What I found in this process was a wealth of doctrinal formation that my students instantly gravitated to because they could see the dialogue come alive between Wormwood the understudy and Screwtape the uncle whose instruction dealt with leading souls away from Christ. Using the Catechism gave me the ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/GqqeXbsXwQ0/
Mass Chat: Earth Day ... ABBEY-ROADS - April 22, 2013 Earth Day was 'observed' at the weekend Masses at my parish. I didn't make fun of it this year. After the ordinary prayers of the faithful, a series of Earth Day prayers were recited alternately, by one side of the church and the other. I participated. It didn't kill me or my spirit of prayer. No climate change/global warming propaganda was mentioned. My parish has a school and Earth Day is something the students celebrate and know about.* ...http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2013/04/mass-chat-earth-day.html
WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday After Easter (1962MR): Devastation and Rising FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - April 14, 2013 ... Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (enlarged with the additional help of Gonzalez Lodge). Basil L. Gildersleeve said, and this is true in the world of WDTPRS , "No study of literature can yield its highest result without the close study of language, and consequently the close study of grammar." Two words in the prayer, gaudium and laetitia , can be rendered into English with the same word "joy" and variations. We don't want to give undue emphasis to the different sorts of "joy" possible with ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/K_16xD0jQvE/
12 Tips for Overcoming Difficulties in Prayer AGGIE CATHOLICS - April 10, 2013 I once asked a class of college students to rate their spiritual lives on a scale of 1 to 10. Most were very hard on themselves and gave themselves a 5 or less. I then asked "how would you describe your relationship with God?" and again, most were not very positive. These were devout and good Catholics. Most of the comments from the class were about difficulties in prayer. Why do we have such difficulties? Simple - we are human. But, before I spell out some tips on how ...http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-tips-to-overcoming-difficulties-in.html
Daily Scriptures Reflection for 4/8/13 – Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord CATHOLICMOM.COM - April 8, 2013 ... involved in today's Gospel account. In fact, we hear from almost every scripture scholar that this is the most important text about Mary, the mother of Jesus. Even in the scientific commentary of the New Jerome Biblical Commentary we find this marian principle being extolled. Benedict T. Viviano, O.P. states in Matthew 2:11— the child with Mary his mother: The Magi offer a model of sound Mariology as worshippers of Christ in a Marian context." This is the only time in the NJBC that the ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/3cRqjwC9j4M/
Drunken Parties at the Seminary, Crushes on Young 'Pups' and a Gay Mafia Accused of Bringing Down Britain's Top Catholic CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 6, 2013 Almost invariably, it was late at night by the time the parties started. After dinner and prayers, the residents of St Andrew's College would gather around candlelit tables in the refectory or head upstairs to the billiard room to talk, drink and laugh into the wee hours. The tight-knit group, mostly in their early 20s, had been drawn to the 19th-century baronial mansion near the village of Drygrange, a stone's throw from the River Tweed, on the Scottish borders, by a ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/drunken-parties-at-seminary-crushes-on.html
Sede Vacante Thoughts A CONCORD PASTOR COMMENTS - March 3, 2013 ... appreciated! Do I mean here that there will be no change ahead in the Catholic Church? For the answer to that I invite you to take a look at the Church over the past 50-75 years and ask yourselves, "Has there been change?" Indeed there has been and the changes we've witnessed and experienced have reached into virtually every nook and cranny of Catholic life. Of course in our world of instantaneous change, what's happened in the 50 years since Vatican Council II may seem, to many, to be ancient ...http://concordpastor.blogspot.com/2013/03/o-ff-line-s-ome-folks-have-mentioned.html
Father Jeremy's Letter From Rome MOUNT ANGEL SEMINARY JOURNALISM - February 28, 2013 ... all for nearly two weeks now. There is such an intense atmosphere in Rome since Pope Benedict announced his resignation on February 11. I say "intense," struggling for a more precise word, but there is a dizzying range of reactions and feelings - in myself, in the people from many different countries whom I encounter daily, in the various archbishops and cardinals with whom I occasionally have contact in my work, and in the media, whether friendly or not. It is a lot to try ...http://masjournalism.blogspot.com/2013/02/father-jeremys-letter-from-rome.html
Lenten Reflection for Tuesday, Feb. 19 AGGIE CATHOLICS - February 19, 2013 St. Mary's put together a Lenten reflection booklet which we handed out on Ash Wed. in order to have a daily reflection on the Mass readings for the day. Most of the reflections were written by students (a few by staff). Here is today's reflection: February 19, 2013 Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Isaiah 55:10-11 * Matthew 6:7-15 The Gospel from Matthew emphasizes three points: the importance of quality prayer, the gift of the Lord's Prayer, and an ...http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2013/02/st.html
