I Like Bein' a Catholic!

Introit for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

2012-01-30T04:00:00.000-06:00

Really Inspiring Person: St. Joseph!

2012-01-28T23:07:00.001-06:00

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Go to Joseph by Fr. Richard W. Gilsdorf

Joseph. Every Christian knows the name. We know who he was, but what do we really know about him? For most of us, the answer is, “Not much.” Now, in these highly intimate, insightful, easy-to-read meditations, the late, noted Scripture scholar Fr. Richard Gilsdorf investigates the New Testament’s most mysterious figure. In doing so, he opens up for us the Church’s greatest male saint in new and exciting ways, drawing believers ever deeper into the Gospels and thus the person of Jesus Christ. Reading this warm, contemplative book is like going on retreat, making it perfect for personal devotions, study groups, or adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

This new book tells the story of St. Joseph in a way that makes it seem fresh and thrilling and allows you to walk alongside him through the events that brought us salvation. If you have evver felt that the Christian story seems remote or bleak, this book offers you a change of perspective. Read it and relish it. - Joanna Bogle EWTN personality and author

This book, grounded in history and Tradition, brings St. Joseph into sharp focus. We see him as he is, and with Fr. Gilsdorf's good guidance, we can follow where he has gone before us. - Mike Aquilina EWTN host and author of The Fathers of the Church

For those who already know and love St. Joseph, this book will be a delight; for those who do not, this book will be a welcome discovery, Drawing upon the Fathers, and other saints and scholars, Fr. Gilsdorf has brought to light the remarkable life of the greatest husband and father who ever lived. In an age when men need a model of masculine fidelity, St. Joseph proves to be an inspiring example. - Fr. "Rocky" Francis Joseph Hoffman, JCD

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Obedience is the key to hearing the voice of the Lord!

2012-01-27T23:29:00.001-06:00

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Why Enough is Never Enough

2012-01-27T21:16:00.001-06:00

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Why Enough is Never Enough: A Catholic Perspective on Overcoming Worries About Money by Gregory S. Jeffrey

Make peace with money.

This is not a book about how to make money. Or spend it. Or give it away. Rather, it s a book for anyone who has ever worried about money, about having enough, and it begins with a startling assumption: No amount of money will ever lift your anxiety. This may seem counter-intuitive, but in Gregory Jeffrey we have an experienced guide. With degrees in business and theology, he has worked as a development consultant for two decades. In meeting with thousands of individuals to ask their support for various causes, he discovered to his amazement that some people with millions worried constantly about money; others of very modest means seemed immune.  Apparently, making peace with money entails something other than money. This insight led Jeffrey to question every fundamental assumption we hold about wealth. With warmth, humor, and a writing style as simple as the Dakota prairie he grew up on, he offers a unique perspective on the interplay between our spiritual and financial lives. Rich with images, stories, and compassion for the millions now burdened with financial worries, Jeffrey teases out what is required of the soul who wishes to be free of anxiety.

Greg Jeffrey is an independent development consultant specializing in Catholic schools and parishes. He has worked with consulting firms and clients throughout the U.S. He holds and M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. His long-standing interest in theology led him to seek an M.A. in Theology from Franciscan University, a degree he completed early in 2000. “There aren’t too many people with an MBA from Notre Dame and an MA Theology from Franciscan,” notes Mr. Jeffrey. “But it’s an ideal combination for what I do.”

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Valentines! Spiritual Journey For Married Couples - Check this out!

2012-01-27T13:28:00.000-06:00

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The Greatest Commandments - A 40- Week Spiritual Journey For Married Couples is an innovative and engaging multi-sensory program that seeks to help couples build strong and lasting Christ-centered marriages within the constraints of their busy and hectic lives. Packaged in an exquisitely crafted and visually stunning boxset, it serves as an impactful 40-week marriage strengthening program for married couples.

The Greatest Commandments is a structured, innovative, and biblically rooted marriage enrichment program that will help couples:

• Deepen and strengthen their relationship and rebuild honesty, trust, and respect.

• Show more affection, reverence, and esteem for each other.

• Establish a strong spiritual foundation and deeper commitment to seeking God together.

• Develop loving habits that will become part of their everyday life.

• Rekindle the love, joy, and passion of the relationship.

• Remember they receive the strength, power, and grace needed from Christ to help each other get to heaven.

Though best embarked on within the first 2 years of marriage, it is equally relevant and engaging for couples who have been married for many years. The program consists of the couple watching a 20-min video together at the beginning of every month (for 10 months) relating to a particular focus topic and then automatically receiving a weekly email (for 40 weeks) that gives them more tips and information on fortifying their marriage as well as challenging them to do something special for their spouses.

Each video segment/topic correlates to 4 emails. Each email also has an MP3 audio file attachment link that is a recording of Deacon Harold's or his wife Colleen's narration of that email (for the husband and wife versions respectively) thus offering an engaging, personal and intimate journey with them over the 40 weeks. The product is a must-have for every married couple (especially newlyweds) and also makes a great Wedding, Valentine's or Christmas gift!

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Exquisitely Crafted Gift Box Set

4 Engaging DVDs covering 10 topics presented by dynamic evangelist Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

2 Bookmarks on 25 ways to love each other (one for him & her)

2 Prayer cards with a beautiful prayer (one for him & her)

40 weekly emails for him and her with MP3 files so you can listen on your iPod or favorite digital player

Love Journal

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Turn up the Music! Music for the Soul.

2012-01-26T13:28:00.001-06:00

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The smash hit CD from the Trappist Monks of Abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz!

It’s a now well-known story: earlier this year Universal UK placed ads in various religious publications encouraging monks and sacred singers to submit demos for consideration of a major recording contract. Word reached the monks of the Cistercian Abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz in Vienna, who applied via a clip they had posted on YouTube. With their rich and evocative sound The Monks were the easy favorites. It helped that Pope Benedict XVI has declared this to be one of his favorite monasteries. Suddenly these very modern Monks were poised to become an overnight sensation, seized on by widespread international media.

The Monks’ repertoire, Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. Chant: Music for the Soul, is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief – the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; its power is timeless and universal. Previous albums of Chant have sold in the tens of millions. Further fueling the huge general demand is Chant’s use in the smash-hit computer game Halo – this is chant for a new computer-gaming generation.

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“The musical structure of chanting can have a significant and positive physiological impact … studies also demonstrate that such practices have been shown to lower blood pressure, increase levels of the performance hormone DHEA as well as reducing anxiety and depression.” – Dr. Alan Watkins, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience at Imperial College London

“When the Monks sing, the chant opens our hearts. We hope it purifies our souls and helps us regain clarity, light, strength and peace. Where there is chaos, we seek to restore order. Where there is emptiness, we try and find meaning. And where there is sadness, joy can return.”  – Gregor Henckel Donnersmarck, Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz

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Wheel of Fortune or Entrust Your Fortune?

2012-01-26T11:37:00.004-06:00

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Trustful Surrender To Divine Providence. "To remain indifferent to good fortune or to adversity by accepting it all from the hand of God without questioning, not to ask for things to be done as we would like them but as God wishes, to make the intention of all our prayers that God's will should be perfectly accomplished in ourselves and in all creatures is to find the secret of happiness and content." Imprimatur.

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Do you want your own Sunday Missal for Mass with the new translation and the readings? Here it is!

2012-01-25T23:44:00.000-06:00

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This new complete Missal contains all the Mass Texts for every Sunday and Holy-day in a continuous and easy-to-use arrangement.

All readings for Liturgical Years A B C are given in the "New American Bible" version.

This text contains the revised translation that goes into effect during Advent of 2011.

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How is the State of Your Union with God? Here is a Book that can help:

2012-01-24T22:50:00.003-06:00

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Union With God

Book Description

One of Mother Teresa's favorite books, Union with God is a collection of letters written by Blessed Columba Marmion to the many persons who sought his spiritual counsel with questions about prayer, faith, temptation, suffering, and the struggles of daily life. Marmion excelled in the art of letter-writing his advice was always simple and direct, yet profound. In his letters we see him bringing to bear his great depth of theological knowledge in a practical and human way. Union with God offers warm, practical counsel from a spiritual master whom Popes and Bishops looked to for inspiration.

"God’s mercy is infinite like God Himself. If we lay open our soul to Him with all its infirmities and sins, His Divine gaze penetrates this abyss of which we cannot see the bottom. His gaze goes into the most hidden recesses and brings us strength and light."

— Blessed Columba Marmion, writing in Union with God

About the Author: Born in Ireland, Blessed Columba Marmion served for several years as a priest in Dublin before finding a vocation to monastic life in the Benedictine tradition. One of the great Catholic authors of the 20th century, his books, acclaimed by Popes and lay faithful alike, have sold some 1.5 million copies.

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My all time favorite Academy Award winning film

2012-01-24T10:33:00.001-06:00

The Academy Award winning drama about the conflict between St. Thomas More and King Henry VIII. Robert Shaw stars as Henry, who wants to divorce his wife to marry Anne Boleyn. Only Sir Thomas More has the conviction to oppose the King. More's valiant refusal to abandon his principle leads to his martyrdom. A stunning performance by Scofield who won Best Actor for his role as More.

Starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, and Orson Welles

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Introit for Today!

2012-01-22T04:00:00.000-06:00

INTROIT • 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Years A & B from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.

Lent with St. Benedict! Sound advice from the wisest mind of the Church

2012-01-21T11:19:00.000-06:00

For more than one thousand five hundred years, believers from all Christian traditions have looked to Saint Benedict, the patriarch of Western monasticism, for spiritual wisdom. And rightly so. His rule has shown how one may experience a simple, holy, and common-sense life, despite the busy pace of our daily existence. The latest addition to Liguori's popular series of seasonal meditation books provides not only Scripture readings for Lent and Easter, but pairs them with a daily selection from the cherished writings of Saint Benedict. This book encourages readers to set aside time each day to reflect upon a specific Scripture passage while providing a suggested activity for Christian living during the Lenten season. In Lent and Easter seasons, when we focus on Christ's great sacrifice for our salvation, we can renew our attention to the many ways in which our own lives can model his and be other-centered. And like Saint Benedict, we can come to know God's spirit through the habit of prayer and meditation. Judith Sutera, OSB, a member of the monastery of Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, was one of the first women in the United States to receive a master's degree in monastic theology. She is a prolific writer and serves on the adjunct faculty of Saint Paul School of Theology, a seminary of the United Methodist Church, located in Kansas City. To Get Your Copy Click HERE

Why I Love Religion, And Love Jesus || Spoken Word

2012-01-20T16:06:00.000-06:00

It's ripping up the internet!

Ready for Lent? Let St. Thomas Aquinas Help!

2012-01-20T13:03:00.001-06:00

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Fr. Barron comments on "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus"

2012-01-19T10:48:00.000-06:00

Why I Love Jesus But Hate Religion - A Catholic Response

2012-01-17T04:00:00.000-06:00

This New Evangelization: Called by Name! What We Long To Hear!

2012-01-15T22:27:00.001-06:00

Have you waited to hear your name called by the LORD? Have you replied in obedience to what he has given you to do? The New Evangelist is to Behold the Lamb of God and proclaim his sheer goodness so that all might believe. Listen to Podcast Here.

Prayers Needed: Novena to Blessed JP II

2012-01-13T15:20:00.000-06:00

As many of you may know, my wife and I experienced the grand providence of God thought the intersession of Blessed John Paul II.

After praying this novena for a car for our family, a week later a dear friend gave us their Mercedes Benz. There are other details to this story that make it a very special answer to prayer.... I will save that for a later post.

For now please pray for the following intention for the next nine days with me: For financial blessings upon LF Real Estate.

Here it is in the Novena:

O Blessed Trinity, We thank You for having graced the Church with Pope John Paul II and for allowing the tenderness of your Fatherly care, the glory of the cross of Christ, and the splendor of the Holy Spirit, to shine through him. Trusting fully in Your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd and has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to Your will, the graces we implore, For financial blessings upon LF Real Estate, hoping that he will soon be numbered among your saints. Amen.

Exorcise your mind: Spanish priest says exorcism is God’s ‘gift to help us believe’

2012-01-13T09:00:00.000-06:00

If everything you know about exorcism you learned by watching the movie, “The Exorcist,” Father Jose Antonio Fortea wants to exorcise those notions from your head.

To learn about exorcism, Father Fortea said the best textbook is the Bible, especially the Gospels, because after all, Jesus was an exorcist.

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Tim Tebow Matthew 16:18-19 ???

2012-01-12T11:43:00.000-06:00

News:  

Tim Tebow wore the eye-black messages under his eyes- John 3:16 before the NFL banned it. Last Sunday Tim and the Denver Broncos beat the Pittsburgh Steelers with on over-time pass. Tim had 316 yards passing and averaged 31.6 yards per pass in the game. The final quarter hour rating of the game was 31.6.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"

Justin:

What would have happened if he put MT 16:-18-19?

18 And I say to you: That you are Peter; and upon this rock

I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail

against it.19 And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom 

of heaven. And whatsoever you shall bind upon earth,

it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you

shall loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Study it here: http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat016.htm

The Star of Bethlehem is a Type of Mary!

2012-01-07T19:23:00.001-06:00

Herod tries to manipulate the Magi, yet he can not recognize the star they are called by. The new evangelist devotes himself to the Magisterium!

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A New Cardinal!

2012-01-07T10:54:00.001-06:00

Picture from WYD in Madrid - Justin Stroh

"He is seen as the premier evangelist in the English-speaking world. And he has a unique capacity to project a kind of positive message and faith of the church in the public arena," Allen said. "Put those things together, and it explains why Benedict XVI is so fond of this guy." -John L. Allen Jr.
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That Catholic Show!

2012-01-06T06:00:00.000-06:00

The idea that drives That Catholic Show is simple: catechetical instruction can be fun and entertaining, especially when exploring Catholic culture and those things Catholics take for granted but don’t really think about too deeply.

Although the episodes can stand alone and provide a glimpse at the depth of Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Tradition, the brief playing time of each episode of That Catholic Show makes it a perfect set-up for instructional use. VIDEOS HERE

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Pray for us!

2012-01-05T04:30:00.000-06:00

Kateri Tekakwitha was a young Mohawk woman who lived in the 17th century. The story of her conversion to Christianity, her courage in the face of suffering and her extraordinary holiness is an inspiration to all Christians. Follow us as we share with you the life of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, who soon will become the first Native American Saint in the United States of America. Many private miracles have already centered around Blessed Kateri, known as the Lily of the Mohawks and the holy grounds at the National Shrine of Blessed Tekakwitha located in Fonda, New York. The Shrine was founded in honor of Kateri, for it was here that she was baptized on Easter Sunday April 5, 1676, and lived her teenage years.

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Wall Street Journal Article

Need a Rosary? We’ll Give You One.

2012-01-04T04:30:00.000-06:00

Need a Rosary? We’ll Give You One.

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you’ll be amazed at the results. That’s what St. Josemaria Escriva said.

You need a Rosary? That’s why we’re here. The goal of Rosary Army is to freely give a knotted Rosary to whomever requests one. We Make Them. We Pray Them. Give Them Away. Get yours here.