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November 15, 2024 – Friday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time – Saint Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor—Optional Memorial – Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!
Sep 18, 2023 · One way to do so is by growing in compassion for others and hope in God. When we witness the sufferings of others, allow ourselves to feel compassion for them, manifest hope in the power of God to heal, and then stand there, in faith, waiting for God to act, God will be compelled to act.
Aug 8, 2021 · Recall that after the first prediction of Jesus’ coming passion and death, Jesus took Peter, James and John up the mountain and was Transfigured before them. The Transfiguration was meant, in part, to dispel the fear of the disciples and to give them hope for that which was to come.
May 18, 2024 · Video. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”. John 20:21–23.
Mar 14, 2021 · Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”.
Oct 19, 2024 · Jesus’ Gentle Truth. October 20, 2024. Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) Readings for Today. Paolo Veronese, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Video. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”.
Oct 8, 2024 · Video. Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”. Luke 11:1. What a great prayer for us to pray also, “Lord, teach us to pray…”.
Oct 12, 2024 · Hopefully you have been. And if you have been, hopefully you are no longer. Being exceedingly astonished is one of many purifications we must go through in order to enter the Kingdom of God. The “eye of a needle” is a reference to one of the gates in the wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem.
Jun 19, 2024 · Forgiving Others. Video. “If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”. Matthew 6:14–15.
Oct 14, 2024 · The central message we must take from this is that we must diligently focus upon that which is in our hearts. Our hearts, our interior life, must be blooming with love of God and others. We must place all of our efforts on cultivating a sincere life of virtue within. This is done by prayer and humility.
