Posted on June 17, 2008 by Catholic Writer
While “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” by Father John Harvey, OSFS. In it, there is a section on St. Augustine’s confessions regarding his struggle for chastity.
According to St. Augustine, there’s no such thing as a “strong will” or “weak will”, only a united or divided will. He speaks of two kinds of inner battles - [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Catholic Writer
2 Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19
David went and brought the ark of God up from Obed-edom’s house to the Citadel of David with great rejoicing. When the bearers of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fat sheep. And David danced whirling round before the [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2007 by Catholic Writer
01 Nov - All Saints Day
Apocalypse 7:2-4, 9-14
I, John, saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea, “Wait before you do any damage on land or at [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2007 by Catholic Writer
St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was born to a middle-class French family. Her father, Louis, was a watchmaker, her mother, who died of cancer when Therese was four, was a lace-maker, and both have been declared Venerable by the Church. Therese was cured from an illness at age eight when a [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2007 by Catholic Writer
09 Jul - Memorial for St. Augustine Zhao Rong, martyrs of China
Among the 120 Martyrs of China canonized on Oct 1, 2000, there were 87 Chinese and 33 foreigners. Augustine was neither the first of the martyrs nor the one highest in the church hierarchy among them - there were [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2007 by Catholic Writer
06 Jul - Memorial for St. Maria Goretti, virgin, martyr
St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902) was a beautiful, pious farm girl, one of six children of Luigi Goretti and Assunta Carlini. In 1896, the family moved to Ferriere di Conca. Soon after, Maria’s father died of malaria, and the family was forced [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2007 by Catholic Writer
29 Jun - Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles
We celebrate the feast of the princes of the apostles, from whom we derive our Christian faith. The Lord stood by them and gave them power, so that through them the whole message might be proclaimed for all the world to hear.
- the [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2007 by Catholic Writer
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Posted on May 18, 2007 by Catholic Writer
Arianism did not die with the First General Council of Nicaea. The day after the closing of the Council at Nicaea, three bishops - the bishops of Nicaea, Nicomedia, and Chalcedon - withdrew from orthodox to join the Arian faction. The emperor had them arrested and exiled.
In 328, Athanatius was [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2007 by Catholic Writer
Acts of the Apostles 1:15-17, 20-26
One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers - there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: “Brothers, the passage of scripture has to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who [...]
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