As a Pentecostal missionary kid, Fr. Scott Borgman learned a deep love of Jesus, but recalls the pressure on his father to lead worship services that were of course based in Scripture, but needed to be entertaining on some level in order to draw and keep people. When he discovered Catholic Mass, it completely re-oriented his thinking in regard to worship of God, and he was profoundly impacted by its focus on Jesus in the Eucharist rather than on the minister leading the service.
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https://youtu.be/zz5On-vk0U8 Source: Fr. Mark-Mary and Br. Malachy via Ascension Presents on YouTube Brother Malachy joins Fr. Mark-Mary to discuss how the words “thy will be done” —if we really believed them and lived by the—may not seem like a good sales pitch at first. We live in a culture of…
Father Peter was raised in the large and tight-knit Jewish community of Montreal, Canada. As a young man Father Peter attend Woodstock, after dropping out of Boston University. He found his way to Berkeley and studied Zen Buddhism. A friend invited him to a Cistercian Abbey in Canada, where he…
https://youtu.be/_vRVuoq5JbE Source: Catholic Productions on YouTube Jesus famously said that no man can serve two masters. And by this he was referring to both God and mammon (i.e., money). One of the many dangers of attempting this is in that man will eventually have to choose between the two, and…