Marian Faith in the Acts of the Apostles

--+ These summary reflections were written for a 5 week Bible Study +-- Acts Chapters 1-4. In this our first session we are reading the first four chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. The summary headings for each of the events, taken from our New American Bible edition (NAB), name the following events: -The …

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The Bread of Life Discourse and Marriage in Ephesians Ch. 5

This is a transcript, slightly touched up but rather unpolished, of my Sunday Homily on August 18th. The livestream replay can be viewed here. + + + Let me jump into the bread of life discourse. First of all, just to affirm in a very straightforward theological way, the Church takes the words of Jesus …

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Rice Memorial High School Service Trip to Peru

Several “service trips” from Rice High School have gone to Peru in the past decades. In our 2024 (Feb. 22nd-March 3rd) service trip, our 9 Rice students, 3 chaperones, and 1 priest (yours truly), made the trek to work at two service locations. Personal accounts of mine follow. {Note: some of the inserted pictures are …

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Scriptural Series: Eucharistic Reflections on the Acts of the Apostles

A completed series of Scriptural lessons is posted on a playlist in my YouTube Channel. They are Eucharistic Reflections on the Acts of the Apostles. The final one has been finished, here in Lent 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AMj0rsMLE&list=PLPhaJuyvd13dXlzhI9ryz4xVq17nfvyVl The entire playlist covers the following: Basic Scriptures in Luke and Acts about the Eucharist The Ascension and the …

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Why do we call the Mass, “the Mass”?

Hello all, My article here was published in the May 2022 issue of the Vermont Catholic Magazine. I am re-posting it here and now, because I have a "part II" in the next Vermont Catholic Magazine, fall edition. Please read on. It is not very long. https://www.vermontcatholic.org/uncategorized/why-do-we-call-the-mass-the-mass/ I will share the upcoming article (same topic) …

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Are you a fan of The Chosen?

This morning I was reading The City of God by venerable Mary of Agreda. I would say forthrightly the chapter I read was more engaging and more thought-provoking than the TV series The Chosen. That's my context for the question. Are you a fan of The Chosen? The first clarification is that I like The …

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Statement of Faith: “male and female He created them.”

We confess with full religious conviction that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was born as a man, that is, he was male, with the bodily constitution for the capacity to become a biological father. It is attested by Scripture and Tradition that Jesus lived a life of sexual celibacy, which did not repudiate the …

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