Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Teaching the faith”
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Jesus took three of His apostles up to the top of a mountain in order to show them a secret. It was so secret that they were not allowed to say anything about it until after Jesus had risen from the dead. This is the secret: Jesus is the Son of God.
In an article on his popular blog, Marc Barnes explains the problem with youth ministry, at least, the model of youth ministry that is prevalent in the American Church. His principal point, which I agree with, is that a youth minister is not the first or most important minister to youth. The parents are and ought to be the first …
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The Sign of the Cross is our basic statement of belief: the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but there is only one God. Perfect love makes them perfectly One. This truth tells us where we stand and reminds us how to live. God’s love makes us one Community without destroying our individuality.
One of the prayers of the Mass that I never understood very well was the prayer that goes like this: grant that we, who are nourished by the Body and Blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit, may become one body, one spirit in Christ. It is easy for me to understand the first part of this …
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Four Things the Church is Serious About, part 1: The Church is serious about Mass on Sunday. Deliberately missing Mass on Sunday is a mortal sin. Don’t spiritually starve to death. Come to Mass on Sunday. (17 Feb 2012)
This article was recently published in the diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Green Bay: GREEN BAY — Fr. Benjamin Sember returned to the diocese during his Christmas break as a new author. His recently published book, “Twelve Lessons on the Catholic Faith,” is designed to provide a simple, yet thorough, faith introduction. The book developed out of a request …
One of the truths of the Catholic Faith that seems most difficult to explain to people is how we can have free will and yet God’s will is done in the world. This is a powerful example of a paradox (one of many in the Catholic faith) that comes from simultaneously holding two truths that seem to be contradictory. We …
Pope Benedict has asked the whole Church to celebrate this year as a Year of Faith, which began with a Mass on October 11th, 2012, exactly fifty years from the opening ceremony of the Second Vatican Council. In 1962 it felt as if the Church was living in the past, because she had not fully accepted the Modern world and …
