
We Need to Recover a Sense of the Sacred in God’s House — and Here’s How We Can Begin
We honor Almighty God by arriving for Mass ahead of time and blessing ourselves as we enter our Father’s house.
We honor Almighty God by arriving for Mass ahead of time and blessing ourselves as we enter our Father’s house.
We must all better understand and pursue God’s design in everyday life.
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‘By embracing with enthusiasm their vocation — as a priest, as a consecrated woman, as a layperson — they devoted their lives to the Gospel. They discovered an incomparable joy, and they became brilliant reflections of the Lord of history.’
“The human body shares in the dignity of the ‘image of God’ — it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit.” (CCC 364)
As we continue our divine mission, we will experience backlash from powerful but foolish people.
“A life of prayer is an absolutely universal human vocation,” said Cardinal Daniélou, which makes it a “political problem” as well.
In history books yet to be written, our descendants will remember the saints among us on Earth today who stepped into the breach.
COMMENTARY: While the current issues in the news are important to the faithful, there are a thousand implicit Catholic realities that barely ever see the light of a newsletter or a homily.
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