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An Advent Story: A Man Who Loved Christ to Tears

December 6, 2021 by Deacon Frederick Bartels 2 Comments

An Advent Story: A Man Who Loved Christ to Tears

After a long pause, John told me about a terrible fire-fight he’d experienced in the war. He didn’t describe any of the details. There was no talk of blood or bombs or bullets or shredded bodies. What he did say, is the Lord had saved him. And he didn’t know why.

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All Saints: Why are the saints important in our everyday lives?

November 1, 2021 by Deacon Frederick Bartels 1 Comment

Christ and his disciples

The saints are models of human excellence, perfected by the life of Christ and the communication of his Spirit. They demonstrate by their lives how to really live and how to really die. They consistently point to the horizon of love which leads to the fulfillment of all human desire: eternal communion with the Holy Trinity.

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Life’s Emptiness: Is it Friend or Foe?

October 16, 2021 by Deacon Frederick Bartels 1 Comment

Lent and death to self

Our experience of life’s emptiness is a universal human experience. It’s not without cause or purpose, for through it God directs our attention back upon Himself, that we may have life, and have it abundantly (Jn 10:10).

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St. Teresa of Jesus: Imaginary Dialogues in Avila and Seville

October 15, 2021 by Virginia Fraguio 1 Comment

St. Teresa of Avila

“Perhaps we do not know what love is: it would not surprise me a great deal to learn this, for love consists, not in the extent of happiness, but in the firmness of our determination to try to please God in everything”— St. Teresa of Avila

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Who Do You Say That I Am? asks Jesus

September 13, 2021 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Jesus and Pilate

Who do you say that I am? asks Jesus. It’s the question above all others. The way we answer this question will echo into eternity. It’s a question of life and death. It’s a question about everything.

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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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