Tag: Salvation
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
“I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.” (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Francis de Sales
“Faithfully attend to your obligations, but know that you have no greater obligation than that of your salvation and of the saving progress of your soul on the way to true devotion.” Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, family and work. Tell your family and friends about [...]
Love, Suffering and the Transfiguration
The love with which God embraces each of us is one of the great truths revealed in to us throughout salvation history, but especially through and in Jesus Christ. To come to better understand this love, we are continually invited by God into a deeper communion of prayer with Him… to come to know Him [...]
Five Lessons we should learn from Christ’s time in the Wilderness
In the Gospel of Sunday of the First Week of Lent, we are given a lesson of what it takes for us to attain salvation through the saving work of Jesus Christ. “Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to [...]
Practical Lessons for a Deeper Faith this Lent
An Invitation to Enter the Desert with Christ As we begin this Lenten season this Wednesday, we are called to enter the desert with Christ; to turn away from sin and towards our God. Many of us realize that we are called to face difficult questions during this penitential season. The challenge we face is not only [...]
Don’t Miss Jesus’ Powerful Teaching on the Eucharist
During this Liturgical Year (Year B), the gospel readings at Mass on Sundays are taken primarily from the Gospel of Mark. However, beginning this weekend, we will spend four consecutive Sundays hearing from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John and the focus will be on the Eucharist. To set the scene, we have [...]
A Testimony to Faith
Deep within each and every one of us there is a hunger and a thirst. We all experience this yearning of the soul – a heart that burns with longing – but we don’t always recognize what it is for which we yearn. We can spend years trying to satisfy this yearning, yet never be satisfied. St. [...]
How Many Souls will be Saved?
Lord, will those who are saved be few? I once heard a comment from a friend who was preparing a homily. He was finding it difficult to preach on the “fact” that there will be so few in heaven. He has no problem on preaching about death, judgment, Heaven and Hell; but, he is sad that there [...]
“Have you been saved?” – Seven Lessons Every Catholic Should Know About Justification
Have You Been Saved? In Acts 4, St. Peter delivers a powerful sermon. He concludes by saying, “There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.” I have written before in these pages of the time when I [...]
Is Jesus the only Way?
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for Sunday, the 4th Sunday of Easter (Year B) – Acts 4:8-12; Psalms 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 21; First John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18. This series appears each Wednesday. ‘No other name given under heaven’ It’s not politically incorrect to believe in God. Just so long as you acknowledge [...]
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