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Entering the Desert of Lent
Source: Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube With the beginning of Lent right around the corner, Bishop Barron talks about this ancient period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in preparation for Easter, and offer several recommendations on how to have a more spiritually powerful Lent. A listener asks: If God made […]
Learning to Experience God at Mass
Source: The Coming Home Network on YouTube 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 […]
Why Isn’t Ash Wednesday a Holy Day of Obligation?
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Why is Ash Wednesday not a holy day of obligation? A holy day is a day that has been consecrated for God, so in that sense Ash Wednesday is a holy day. At the heart of a holy day of obligation, however, is the Resurrection. […]
4 Reasons for Fasting
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Why do we fast? Fr. Mike explains that it’s not about getting more love and attention from God. Fasting is about self-mastery, discernment, sacrifice, and being a co-redeemer with Jesus. In this video, Fr. Mike dives deeper into these four reasons, helping you make the […]
Your 40 Days in the Desert with Jesus
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Dr. Edward Sri explains that Lent is our forty days in the desert with Jesus. The New Testament roots of Lent lie in Jesus’ forty days of fasting in the desert, and his forty days were prefigured by the Jews forty years of wandering in […]
Maria Steen
Source: Divine Mercy Conference on Vimeo.com Maria Steen at the Divine Mercy Conference in Dublin Feb. 2020.An astute analysis of current cultural/social issues in Ireland, and how these challenge Catholic teaching, as well as some suggestions for the way forward. Watch other video presentations from the conference on the Divine […]
Tree of Life
Source: Tree of Life via BibleProject on YouTube In the opening pages of the Bible, God gives humanity a gift that they quickly forfeit—eternal life that comes by eating from the tree of life. In this video, we explore the meaning of this powerful image and how sacred trees play […]
The Biblical Roots of Ash Wednesday
Source: Catholic Productions on YouTube In this video, Dr. Pitre gives insight into the Biblical foundation for Ash Wednesday, as well as the rationale and purpose of the season of Lent. He addresses questions such as: • Why do you we use ashes? • Why are we asked of the […]
Babylon Is Falling
Source: crisismagazine.comReprinted with permission Author: Anthony EsolenImage: amgreatness.com Text-to-Speech audio version. Voiced by Amazon Polly As the plague in Europe had its occasional years of acute virulence, so in the United States the election season is upon us again. And as the plague arrived in 1348 and would not be eliminated […]
Can We Know We’re Going to Heaven?
Source: Catholic Answers at catholic.comReprinted with permission Karlo Broussard Can we know for sure that we’re going to heaven? Coming up next with Karlo Broussard. Cy: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and today we welcome again our good friend Karlo Broussard for […]
Can Abortion be Justified if a Pregnancy Threatens the Mother’s Life? (Parts 1 & 2)
Source: via healingtheculture on YouTube In this 2-part video, Healing the Culture president Camille Pauley evaluates the use of direct and indirect abortion in cases where pregnancy puts the mother’s life in danger. Header image: via healingtheculture on YouTube