Immaculate Conception Homily
How did God make Mary's soul? How did God make Mary's body? Both happened at the moment of her Immaculate Conception.
How did God make Mary's soul? How did God make Mary's body? Both happened at the moment of her Immaculate Conception.
This is a talk I gave tonight on the Cardinals confrontation of Amoris Laetitia.
I must admit that there is something attractive and even accurate to the thesis that the Apostles were buffoons before they had the full transformation that happened at Pentecost. First, Mother Angelica points out that they never seemed to catch anything on their own even as fishermen! "Jesus chose a bunch of stinky fishermen" she reminds us as to why God chose someone like her to be a cloistered-evangelist to the nations in founding EWTN. We have Christ's disciples' obvious sins, like Peter's threefold denial of Jesus. And yet, after the Resurrection, Jesus does not say "Peter, about denying me three nights ago...You can still remain my disciple, but I'm going to have [...]
Advent is a mini-Lent, and part of this is fasting, prayer and almsgiving. We will see how St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that tithing needs to be reached before almsgiving is assessed by the Christian.
This podcast is not based on private revelation but rather the things that the Bible and the Catechism say must come at the end of time: The Great Tribulation and Apostasy, the Anti-Christ versus the Restrainer. At the final end we see the second coming of Jesus Christ, the Final Judgment, the destruction of earth and the Resurrection of the Body. Finally, we will see the New Heavens and the New Earth.
This is the same as my podcast but in video form. Also, the audio did not include the Question and Answer period at the end. This video on YouTube includes it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GP_ZFKwW-A
On the virtue of Gratitude
Are you an American Catholic or a Catholic American? Why the Catholic Church will last forever, but not the United States.
Why did Jesus really have to die for us? Many Catholics with a PhD in theology would not be able to say more than a 9 year old: "To die for our sins." We look to St. Catherine of Siena for an explanation that is simple enough for a child, but complex enough to [hopefully] satisfy the 12 families who gathered in Louisiana to hear about this central tenant of Our Faith.