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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261983/jesus-was-not-a-yogi-bishop-refutes-syncretistic-theories?utm_campaign=CNA%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8BOp73yX5fIjqS2CQaUn2dCZMZw9tzEibJ5aTP1v3W_DTTuwAzCcCuLaGKrLV4wKRn99qFvZTwPrnU1hr2-nGMq5PyrA&_hsmi=345821726&utm_content=345821726&utm_source=hs_email Reflection Because Jesus is God, He doesn't need to "go anywhere to learn anything". He already knows EVERYTHING. So the whole issue about this erroneous idea that during the first 30 years of His life, Jesus went to India or Tibet to learn from Hindu and Buddhist teachings is nothing short of preposterous and absurd.…

Today I received a truly inspiritive newsletter from EWTN about the Feast of Candlemas, where in Catholic tradition, we honour the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple along with the Purification of Mary. In some Christmas traditions, particularly those from the Germanic/Slavic lands of Central, South, East, and North Eastern Europe, this day signals…

St Paul was asked this same question by our Lord when he was on the road to Damascus. Stubborn and hard-heartedly willful, he was ready to forcefully repress the bold and ostentacious moves of God because of his position in the "golden snood" of the-then contemporary religious tradition and zealously proud conventional thought-patterns held high…

This is Christmas! “Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: ‘Never again to war!’; ‘With war everything is lost’. Instil in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps…

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260752/intergenerational-healing-has-no-basis-in-catholic-doctrine-spanish-bishops-affirm?utm_campaign=CNA%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_WPtlCcwDShF75sGy2cfLiRFARJpNYZsXKanKU6QVrxhzQAnVXTlbsRWyM-B0_7zoT1VDPCUsKOcF-1xEefOWHwVzUQA&_hsmi=336228368&utm_content=336228368&utm_source=hs_email Commentary Not all that long ago, a report came out (see above), stating that a certain cohort of bishops from Spain had banded together to formally oppose what they claim is a 'doctrinal error', namely that of believing in generationally caused or inherited problems. It is here that I intend to contest that assertion…

Again, I'm blown away how amazingly similar alot of what I am discovering through reading Pope Francis' Dilexit Nos ¹  is thematically, to much of what I have so far discovered about Paul Tournier's beautiful masterpiece The Gift of Feeling. ² Just take a look at this, in paragraph 20, the Holy Father states: "In…

https://www.ncregister.com/news/some-bishops-propose-the-return-of-the-friday-meat-fast?utm_campaign=NCR&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9mDmAM0vEr5zeB4RmVuxOKFhdoomWghmtfEJhNThVxu8aZObuw2EnwujUHKfQl9pDTnjmsTvm69iGnvbayAEuUtM50jA&_hsmi=335068882&utm_content=335068882&utm_source=hs_email Great initiative and sorely needed. A large part of the reason why there has been so much falling away, so much secularization of Catholics generally whereby they have turned from being true, passionate & authentic into feebly nominal Catholics, not to mention Sunday pew-warmers at best! - has to do with the abandonment of…

This is it....right here: If we devalue the heart, we also devalue what it means to speak from the heart, to act with the heart, to cultivate and heal the heart. If we fail to appreciate the specificity of the heart, we miss the messages that the mind alone cannot communicate; we miss out on…

https://saintmartinsacademy.org Commentary I thought this was a primer in monastic formation somewhat like the Cistercian charism....but I took a look at the website and was shocked to see the word "softness" being equated with "sloth"! For goodness' sake, what are you trying to do?? Re-create a cultish boys club based on principles that have more…