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Be Prepared

October 25, 2017 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

City at night

Jesus lovingly invites us to live according to the high standards of the Christian ideal. Not, rather, according to the confused, directionless and constantly changing winds of contemporary secular culture.

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Stay Awake!

August 31, 2017 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

desperate

Death will arrive in the blink of an eye. At that moment, the order in which we have maintained our house, or the disarray we have intentionally permitted, will be confirmed for eternity. The Son of Man will require an account of our deeds and words.

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Repentance: Conforming One’s Life to Reality

August 3, 2017 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

St. Ignatius of Loyola and the importance of repentance

When Christ began his ministry he announced: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 3:2, Mk 1:15). Our Lord’s words connect the necessity of repentance with obtaining the promise of unending happiness and joy found in God alone and life in his kingdom.

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Is Religious Freedom Correctly Understood?

December 10, 2009 by Deacon Frederick Bartels Leave a Comment

America and Freedom

We live in a nation where religious freedom is a reality, but are the benefits of this freedom adequately understood? Further, is this freedom used correctly?

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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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