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The Inner Life of the Triune God
The Church teaches we can know with certainty by our human reason that God exists. But there are truths that we cannot discover until God reveals them to us. The doctrine of the Trinity is such a Divinely Revealed truth. Frank Sheed, one of the great Catholic apologists of the 20th Century, often spoke of the mysteries [...]
Finding Strength in Our Surrender
Surrender, giving control of our lives to Christ, is an enormous obstacle to living out our faith in the workplace, or anyplace for that matter. Surrendering to Christ and putting his will before my own for the first time more than seven years ago was the very moment I felt stronger than at any other [...]
Finding Peace in Spite of Ourselves
A few weeks ago I awoke to begin what was likely to be a stressful day. My wife was in the hospital recovering from surgery she had the day before and I wanted to go and see her as soon as the kids were off to school. I was scrambling to get my older son [...]
Do You Practice the Five First Saturdays Devotion?
The Five First Saturdays Devotion Last week we got to know the Prayers of Fatima. Now let’s look at the devotion of the Five First Saturdays. In her July 13, 1917 apparition at Fatima, Mary said: “You have seen hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. It is to save them that God wants [...]
They Know I’m Catholic, Right?
I gave a talk one Sunday morning to the men’s club of a large Atlanta Methodist church at the request of an old friend. When he asked me to speak to this group months before the talk, I responded with a question which I would ask him repeatedly every time we got together: “They know [...]
Get to Know the Prayers of Fatima
On May 13, 2013, we will celebrate the 96th anniversary of the first apparition of Mary, Our Lady of the Rosary, to the three young seers at the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. The children were Lucia de Jesus dos Santos (age 10), Blessed Francisco Marto (age 9) and Blessed Jacinta Marto (age 7). Francisco and [...]
Learning to Love our Blessed Mother
For years I have had a strong desire to write about my ever-growing appreciation and love for the Blessed Mother. Growing up as a Baptist, leaving that church as a teenager and living in a spiritual wasteland until I experienced a significant personal conversion in 2005, I never thought about Mary. Since joining the Catholic [...]
In The Not Too Distant Future…
A conversation in the not too distant future… “Who was the man in the black suit sitting behind Father Miguel during Mass this morning?” Chris asked his father as they drove away from the parish. He caught his wife’s worried look and quick nod before he answered his 13 year old son. “Well Chris, the [...]
Be not afraid for the Lord is your Shepherd
We live in a world that is at times dark and dangerous. The events of this past week in Boston remind us of this sad truth. In a moment all can change; our earthly lives can end. Deadly violence – unlooked for, unexpected, senseless and sudden. That the world is filled with sin, violence and [...]
The Illusion of Success
My father came to our house for a visit last summer, which he typically does two or three times a year. He loves to see his grandsons and we talk to him every week by phone, but for health reasons it is sometimes difficult for him to travel from his Florida home to Atlanta. I [...]
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