Opus Dei
(Saint Josemaría)
Resurrection Now What is the significance of our Lord’s Resurrection for the present? writes Fr Donncha Ó hAodha in the current issue of Position Papers .
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“What’s in it for me?”
It happened a few years ago after a baptism ceremony. A young man came up to me when the rite was over and took me aside. In a friendly and frank way he said: “That was a grand homily Father … for the already committed. But you need to remember that at least half of the congregation there are not committed to their faith. When you are preaching, keep in mind that what your listeners are asking themselves in their own minds is:
Apr. 8, 2021 Catholic News Service PHOENIX – Taking the annual celebration of the Last Supper as a focal point, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix released a landmark document April 1 on the centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the church. Described by Bishop Olmsted as an apostolic exhortation and titled Veneremur Cernui Down in Adoration Falling, the document explores the key history and theology as well as the beauty of the Eucharist. The bishop called on priests and laity to embrace a deeper love for and understanding of the Eucharist as the source and summit of the Catholic faith.
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by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
“God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed,
by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed.”
Collect of the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday
Throughout the Easter season the Church’s newest members continue to reflect upon the meaning of their experience at the Easter Vigil when they were fully initiated into the mystery of Christ and his Church through Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist. The prayers of the Church’s liturgy during this paschal season express our praise and gratitude for the newness of life and redemption that we have celebrated during the Easter Triduum and that we renew constantly in the sacraments.
Assisting a suicide
April 7, 2021
The term assisted suicide rolls right off the tongue. Merriam-Webster defines it as suicide committed by someone with assistance of another person. But what is it really?
According to the
Catechism of the Catholic Church, suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the living God.