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Mortal Sin

Hell is as Close as One Mortal Sin

September 25, 2022 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Landing on the wrong side of the great chasm for all eternity is as close as dying in a state of mortal sin. Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man teaches this important truth: every person faces at the end of his earthly life the possibility of an eternal, unchangeable destiny. Salvation or damnation. One is good. The other terrifyingly bad.

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Cancel Culture Leaves No Room for the Good Thief

October 28, 2020 by Ryan Bilodeau Leave a Comment

The Good Thief

When a citizenry’s right to express itself freely and without fear of retribution is at risk, it can be thought of as a chilling development indeed. Such social conditions always bring a society one step closer to accepting the premises of tyranny.

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Christ and Judas, Light and Darkness

April 7, 2020 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Christ and Judas Iscariot

In today’s gospel, we are presented with the contrast between Christ and Judas, light and darkness. Judas chooses the way of darkness and goes out into the night, inviting Satan to enter into his life. Christ, on the other hand, is the Savior who brings light into darkness and dispels evil.

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I’m The Prodigal Son and This Is My Story

March 30, 2019 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

The Prodigal Son by Palma Giovane

The Parable of the Prodigal Son found in Luke’s gospel is the most famous parable of all time. Why? Because it’s one of the greatest love stories of all time. But it’s not all roses.

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Five Ways To Grow In Intimacy With Christ During Advent

December 9, 2017 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

Advent is a season to grow closer to Jesus

Advent is a liturgical season of the Church through which Christians prepare to meet Christ and enter into a deeper relationship of personal communion with him. Here are five simple, straightforward ways of doing that.

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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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