Living Faith

Congregation for the Clergy on the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord

By Congregation for the Clergy • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012

The Collect continues: "where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope". We are called to joy because our humanity is now 'elevated' in Christ beside the Father. In fact, because of Christ's love for man He took on our flesh and so all that happens to Christ's ...

Life in the Spirit constitutes the fullness of human life; it is a life filled with light and love, tenderness and compassion as we share in God's own divine nature. Through the love of the indwelling Spirit, who resides in his faithful as in a temple, the soul is infused with an enduring, real and knowable peace. It is a peace that heals, elevates and perfects our ability to live our human life in all its fullness.

From Ascension To Pentecost: Life in The Spirit and Interior Peace

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012

"Grant, we pray, almighty God, that the splendor of your glory may shine forth upon us and that, by the bright rays of the Holy Spirit, the light of your light may confirm the hearts of those born again by your grace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the ...

The Happy Priest: Where He Has Gone, We Hope to Follow

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012

The judgments of time will be corrected by the judgments of eternity. The injustices of this world will be replaced by the justice of the world to come. The tears shed now, will be replaced by the joy lived forever in eternal life. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - The ...

Catholic Social Doctrine: Morality, Science, and Technology

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/18/2012

Science and technology, for all their good, are not something ungoverned by moral law. We should not fall into the moral morass of believing that just because we can do something we ought to do something. Often, dazzled by the products of his ingenuity, man views technology as the summum ...

The Ascension of the Lord Is Also Our Ascension With the Lord

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/17/2012

Does the Ascension affect our lives in the here and now? Is it a commemoration of an event which occurred 2000 years ago? Or, could it be the key that helps unlock the very meaning of our lives and the plan of God for the entire created order? He is the Head and we are members of His Body. We ...

A Year After Fire, Parish Starts to Rebuild

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Last year, Msgr. Tim Nichols addressed the shocked St. John Vianney parishioners, many who watch their church being destroyed in an arson-set conflagration less than 24 hours before the fire, at the Palm Sunday Mass in the parish hall. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I'll be honest with you ...

What the Fire Spared: On Mary and Motherhood

By Martha Lyles • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Every fire refines, and the one that claimed our house was no exception. We are stronger and wiser now, more grateful, less materialistic. But I would feel ungrateful to God if I complained, so I focus on the many ways He has guarded and sustained us. POWAY, CA (Catholic Online) - The thing you ...

The Happy Priest Reflects on the Greatness of Motherhood

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Motherhood is a high calling. What can replace the love of a mother and a grandmother? The love, guidance and influence they provide to their children are distinct and invaluable. All mothers who wish to be true to their high calling need only look to the woman who became the greatest mother ...

The Happy Priest: Living Our Lives for Others

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/13/2012

Despite the many challenges and sufferings of daily existence, a life of selfless love energizes the true Christian in such way that they are able to soar above every challenge. Anyone who wants to live true Christianity is called to live selflessly. Does a true mother complain when she ...

President Supports Homosexual 'Marriage': Obama's Fool's Gold Rule

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/12/2012

That Obama would use the Golden Rule to justify, to sanction, indeed to compel State support for activity that is considered offensive by any traditional Jew and Christian-and any virtuous pagan-betrays his ignorance, or perhaps even willful misuse of it. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) ...