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The Young Adult Jesus
Is there even a thing such as devotion to the Young Adult Jesus? We have devotion to the Christ Child and devotion to the Crucifix. We know and read about the last three years of Jesus’ life. If Jesus died at age 33, that means He must have been at some time, 26 years old (my age!). I will do my best to describe Him to you. It is an awesome thing to meditate on! Devotion to the Young Adult Jesus Let us meditate on our own lives as well. In our own lives, do we skip a step?
A Bird’s Eye View of Life
Through Heaven’s Eyes I was lying down, staring at the ceiling. I closed my eyes and then opened them. While doing this repeatedly, I started coming to the realization of what my life was like in the eyes of God. What if I looked at myself in God’s way—a bird’s eye view, so to speak? If I looked at myself with a bird’s eye view of the earth, I saw how small and insignificant I was.
The Stigmata of the Heart
Many saints have had the stigmata. St. Francis of Assisi and St. Padre Pio had holes in their hands and feet and side, matching the wounds of Christ. St. Rita of Cascia had one of the thorns in her head from Jesus’ crown of thorns. St. Catherine of Siena had an invisible stigmata until her death. The stigmata is a sign of sainthood. This is because the stigmatist is so close to Christ that he/she gets to share intimately with Christ’s very wounds.
Something is Budding
Have you ever heard of the bible study or small group practice in which each participant goes around and tells a thorn, a rose, and a bud? The thorn is something that has not been going well. The rose is something that is going well. The bud is something that is just starting; something hopeful; something that awaits blossoming. Spring is the perfect time to focus on our “buds.” I am not sure about all of the other states, but here in Michigan, buds are everywhere. The trees are budding their leaves.
Breaking Bonds - Catholic Stand
Bound Sin. It binds us. Our hands which were meant to reach out and love. Our feet which were meant to walk forward in a life with Christ. We find in both the Old Testament and New Testament, stories about being bound. God ultimately breaks the binds and brings us and those we witness to everlasting life. But before we focus on breaking bonds, we must shortly note what our bonds—including everlasting bonds—can do.
The Confiteor: Pray for Me to the Lord our God
At Holy Mass, we often pray as a part of the Penitential Rite, what is called “The Confiteor,” which translates to “I Confess.” The Penitential Rite is prayed right at the start of Mass before entering the Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist. When entering the Sacred Mystery of the Mass, we must pray for forgiveness for all of our sins.
An Introduction to an Advent Journey With Mary
This December, a series of daily Advent, devotional postings will run from December 1st to December 25th. Journey beside Mary, the Mother of God, as she waits for the birth of Jesus. let’s learn to wait with Mary. Wait? Nuns, nuns, nuns. I was obsessed. Nuns! That was all I could think about. I was filled with eagerness, anticipation, and zeal. In my free time, I would spend hours looking up different orders of religious women, waiting for one to stand out to me.
Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast shows how history repeats itself
Image by Allonsenfants (used via Creative Commons license) Podcaster Mike Duncan pauses briefly in front of his microphone, just long enough for a gentle implied sigh, after he has dispatched King Charles I. Charles was, “let’s face it, a terrible leader.” Unable to judge people or politics, he was so obstinate that he “almost forced his own subjects to behead him” after many chances to save his life and crown. But he wasn’t a monster.
Take & Read: New Testament
The Pauline letters have been mined for use by a variety of movements—some liberating and revolutionary, others oppressive and conventional. Paul’s writings have been employed strategically for insidious ends: to advance Christian supersessionist claims with respect to Judaism, to prevent women from preaching and leading in churches, to justify the sins of white slaveholders.
Reading Jael’s story in a women’s prison
Mosaic at the Dormition Church in Jerusalem Danielle was lying on her living room couch in Betty Boop pajamas, reading a book, when a man kicked in her front door. He had just been involved in a drug deal gone bad, and he was enraged. He demanded Danielle’s money. Danielle remembers asking, “Why are you doing this?” He answered, “Because I can.” By the end of the night, Danielle had been strangled nearly to death multiple times.
Landscapes of the Song of Songs
"In a heady mix of hard-nosed literary criticism and enlivening theory, Elaine James elaborates a series of care-full and close readings of selected poems from the Song of Songs thematized around the natural and cultivated landscapes that form the base of this poetry's imaginary. The result is an achingly beautiful and evocative exploration of the Song that is at once highly original and uncommonly sensible. And the writing is exquisite. Rarely has biblical scholarship been so rapturously rendered.
Household Gods
https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pop-up/9780190882587 The Religious Lives of the Adams Family Sara Georgini Explores the religious lives of early America's most famous first family Multigenerational saga of how faith shapes presidential thought and American culture Draws from extensive archival sources in recounting 300 years of Adams family history Examines the role religion held as the Adames navigated pivotal moments in American history, from the Revolution to the anti-slavery...
The Sacred Project of American Sociology
"What, one might ask, could possess a well-established and well-known sociologist to write an account of his discipline as a sacred project while at the same time exposing its close-minded outlook? The answer Christian Smith provides is both bracing and sad, bracing in its thoroughness and originality, and sad in the very necessity to shine such a light on a discipline that is largely blind to the unintended consequences of its lopsided claims about the nature of social reality.
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