Today’s first reading is a fascinating story of the post exilic Judah. Now, what does that mean? In 587 BC the southern and last of two kingdoms in the Jewish nation fell to the Babylonians. Forty years later, the Babylonians fell to the Persians and the victorious King, Cyrus, released the Jews to return to [...]
I want you to look at the second reading and there you will notice one of the most controversial lists in US Catholicism. What you are reading there from St. Paul are some of what we now call the Charismatic gifts. These are unique realities that involve what some would call a supernatural manifestation in [...]
What is PHN? (In english: NTD-Not ToDay) The PHN program, as is also the idea PHN, is of a simple character directed to those in the TV audience that encounter themselves with an accessible way to live in God. Those programs have one or two testimonies that bring them to believe that it is possible [...]
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Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil–If you want to know why I am not at Ars France with the many priests on retreat, it is because I received that notice about ten minutes after I booked my trip to Brazil way back in the Spring. I have been back here at Canção Nova since Thursday and have worked [...]
Just following the rules does not make us holy. Seeking to be holy people makes us holy.
There is a question that people use as a hippy test. The question is simple, what is the most important event that happened in the summer of 1969. If the person answers Woodstock then although he or she may or may not be a hippy they may have some hippy in them. If the persons [...]