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Comment on Tim Tebow and The Warrior Ethos by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:19:13 +0000

I would be more impressed with Tebow if he didn’t play on Sundays out of respect for the Lord’s Day. Football: with its vain glorious promotion of self, steroid use, money worship and pride is an affront to the very concept of Sabbath. There is nothing wrong with sport, but there is something very wrong with the idolisation of professional sports. Tebow might be a nice guy, and even faithful, but let’s face it…there is nothing heroic about saying a quick prayer or wearing face paint with a scripture quote whilst being paid obscene amount of money to play a game. Check out Eric Liddell (or watch the film Chariots of Fire) to see an excellent example of true Christian sportsmanship and courage (he was willing to forfeit the Olympics because he would not race on Sunday). That’s commitment! (He also died in China doing missionary work).

Comment on Post Your Prayer Requests by ruby

ruby — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:55:12 +0000

b be holy husband to me and father holy to his children, be holy catholic and say rosary immediately. blessings and good health on m, n, m, f, j, me and b, and get the money asap and r leave house immediately, everything go well as far as court and stuff.b be released immediately to home and have immediate conversion, sincere repentance. God bless

Comment on Post Your Prayer Requests by Jordan Vira

Jordan Vira — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:55:49 +0000

I would like to pray for all the Deceased Priests, Bishops and Popes in Purgatory. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen

Comment on Spiritual but not Religious? by Peter

Peter — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:09:51 +0000

GOD BLESS YOU, Father! I couldn’t agree more. Our world is falling apart at the most elemental level because Satan’s lie of relativism and the absolute rejection of objective reality has deceived modern man. People actually believe that they define reality and think they can define the terms of everything in existence, even religion itself. May the Mercy of God flood these hearts with the clarity and beauty of Truth so they might be free to love, serve and worship God.

Comment on Spiritual but not Religious? by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:20:56 +0000

I agree, but I think what happens is many people substitute religious custom for a real relationship with God. This is why there are many cradle Catholics who are really no different from their secular counterparts in actions, political views and behaviour; even though they go to church and recieve the sacraments. The thing that causes people to disavow religion is when they see Catholics live their lives unchanged by the traditions they participate in. The key is to combine the beauty and power of our Catholic traditions with a living and dynamic faith.

Comment on Post Your Prayer Requests by sravanthi

sravanthi — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:39 +0000

lord please help me to get the government job as soon as possible with out it my life is not going to be settled.lordplease rebuild my life and settle all that pertainging to me in your name. Amen

Comment on Communion on the hand or on the tongue? by Sir Tim

Sir Tim — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:14:25 +0000

Thank you, Marie for visiting the website and your thoughtful comment. It is well known that St. Faustina, being not very well educated and somewhat illiterate, wrote her diary in a simple and phonetic manner. It wasn’t until later that others edited it to be more readable and to spread the devotion of Divine Mercy. You might know that the diary wasn’t Church approved until around 1966 and Divine Mercy Sunday was established by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 2001. We must forgive some small errors attributed to St. Faustina’s simplicity (e.g. the use of chalice in Chapter 1, par. 160 rather than ciborium).

The Holy See has allowed communion in the hand, as a method of receiving the Holy Eucharist in communion since June 17, 1977. However, the point of Francis Phillips article in the Catholic Herald UK was to reflect on the reasons why we receive the precious body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ in the hand or on the tongue. We do well to reflect on our motives and pray about how we can more reverently receive Him . Let us never do so out of concern for what others might think but only in a way that give an example to others of the awe and love we have for our Lord.

Please keep visiting the website often and share with your friends and family. God bless!

Comment on Communion on the hand or on the tongue? by Marie

Marie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:49:17 +0000

Thank you for this article. I came to this site precisely to ask the same question, seeing that this site is of the Knights of Divine Mercy.
I, too, receive communion kneeling down and on my tongue at the Extraordinary Rite.

But on rereading St. Faustina’s Diary, I was stunned to read about the consecrated Host jumping from a “chalice” (shouldn’t that be “ciborium?”)from the tabernacle and onto St. Faustina’s hands?
I’m stunned.

Comment on Can a Catholic be a Liberal? by Mrs. O

Mrs. O — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:22:41 +0000

Thanks. I may do just that. It is amazing how things can blow up on the internet as at least one thread and one blog, popular, had that lead in only to find it in his dialogue. Nevertheless, it needs to be challenged.

Comment on Can a Catholic be a Liberal? by Sir Tim

Sir Tim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:40:41 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to listen to the talk Dr. Kreeft gave to the Knights of Divine Mercy and others of the Diocese of Madison, WI. It was a very thought-provoking talk and worthy of an equally long question and answer session; which sadly there wasn’t time for. Perhaps you would like to ask him yourself in a letter. He can be contacted c/o:

Maloney Hall, Room 369
21 Campanella Way
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Please keep visiting our blog for other challenging posts from our founder and spiritual director, Fr. Heilman. I look forward to following your blog, as well. God bless, Opey!