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When Death Arrives, Will You Say Joyfully: O Death, Where is Thy Sting?

May 27, 2020 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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There are no ranks among the victors over death for libertines, religious freethinkers, and those who value pride and power over meekness, humility and love. Those who raise the banner of triumph, adorned with everlasting life, do so by the saving death of Christ.

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Jubilee Year of Mercy: Be Mindful of the Reality of Hell

January 5, 2016 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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In order to avail ourselves of God’s forgiveness in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, our gaze must first turn to the source of mercy: Jesus Christ whose suffering and death provide the means of salvation for fallen humanity

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Day Will Soon Pass Into Night

July 17, 2014 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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Although the bright light of day gives a false impression that night is far off, it is this moment drawing near. Soon, light will give way to shadow, color wash into grey, and the warmth of the sun will cease as it falls below the horizon and the earth is cast in darkness.

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Death: The Unspoken Yet Unavoidable Experience In Your Future

June 19, 2014 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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Death often remains the unspoken, unthinkable subject. While we tend to refrain from discussing or thinking about frightening, unpleasant topics, such a habit is indeed an unfortunate one. I propose that thinking about death is one of the more intellectually and spiritually healthy things a person can do. It’s the sane thing to do, and it’s the human thing to do. As we mediate on the reality of death, and learn what God has revealed about death, life and the human person to his Church, we learn a great deal about what it really means to live.

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Walk the Road of Penance and Reconciliation Leading Back to the Father

September 16, 2013 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

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God’s love is no ordinary love, but truly extraordinary, burning, intense and unceasing. It is the love of a compassionate Father; it is the Love that exceeds every human desire.

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Jesus Christ meets the man of every age, including our own, with the same words: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” These words contain both a fundamental requirement and a warning: the requirement of an honest relationship with regard to truth as a condition for authentic freedom, and the warning to avoid every kind of illusory freedom, every superficial unilateral freedom, every freedom that fails to enter into the whole truth about man and the world.  (Redemptor Hominis No. 12)

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