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Your Ascension Thursday Reflection: Preparing a Place for Us
Please enjoy this Ascension Thursday devotion from our brand-new devotional by Mike Aquilina and Adam Lucas, Feasts 0f Our Fathers: Praying the Church Year with the Early Christians, out now.In his commentary on the Gospel of John, St. Cyril of Alexandria reminds us that what happens to Christ affects the whole human race; and so, as Christ is raised up to heaven, he brings us with him into paradise. Reflect:Mark 16:19-20, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:6-11 Read:Jesus departs to secure the way to the m
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May 8th 2024
Answering Questions About the Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception.For non-Catholics, this dogma of the Church may be one of the most misunderstood doctrines there is.Here are some common questions Catholics get, and how to respond to them:Question:Why does Mary have to be holy at the moment of her conception instead of being purified shortly before God chooses her to be his mother?Response:God chooses and elects those who are to cooperate in his plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4), anticipating his pl
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Dec 8th 2023
The Unbiblical Idea of Sola Scriptura
After I became a Christian
I struggled with whether I should keep attending a
Catholic Church.As I sat in church and watched incense rise
up
from the altar, I felt an urge to stay and be part of what
felt
like a sacred mystery.On the other
hand, there were a lot of Catholic beliefs
that
I could not find in the Bible, which made me think they
were just man-made traditions.I eventually decided that it didn’t
matter which church I joined so long as I only
believed in what the Bible
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Oct 2nd 2023
The Jesus Question
When I was deciding whether or not I
should be a Christian, I made sure to read about as many other religions as I
could. At first it was overwhelming to compare the teachings of faiths like
Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to Christianity, but then I noticed they all had
one thing I could compare: a teaching about Jesus Christ.Almost every major world religion
has a teaching about the identity of Jesus. Jews say Jesus was a human teacher,
Muslims say he was a prophet, and Hindus and Buddhist
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Sep 26th 2023
A Five-Part Test for Your Eucharistic Beliefs
How can you tell if you have the right understanding—the biblical interpretation, Jesus’ interpretation—of the Eucharist?I’d suggest five things to look for: your beliefs should be strange,sacrificial,serious,sacramental, and shocking. First, as we’ve already seen, the proper Christian understanding of the Eucharist must be strange, and hard to accept. That’s how it was initially received, and Jesus did nothing to dispel this impression. Why, he was trying to present an easy teaching and was jus
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Jul 27th 2023