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How to avoid loving God

March 22, 2015

If you think about it, it is hard not to love God.

After all, God IS love…

“A message in blood”

March 20, 2015

Tyrants never learn.

Like their Roman predecessors, the Islamic tyrants killing Christians will lose. As Fr. Robert Barron points out in the video commentary above, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

“God is like a refiner’s fire, (Malachi 3:2) burning up all the impurities and leaving the pure gold behind. When gold (or pretty much any other metal) comes out of the ground, it comes as ore, fused with other minerals. In other words, it’s all mixed up with useless junk. It’s imprisoned in worthlessness.

What the refiner has to do is set the gold free. And fire is what does it. It takes away the things that keep gold from being golden. It sets the gold free to sparkle and shine.”

“I can see!”

March 14, 2015

When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out,
he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
He answered and said,
“Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
Jesus said to him,
“You have seen him, and
the one speaking with you is he.”

Can an angel be jealous of a man?

March 10, 2015

Angels can be gripped by sin. After all Lucifer was cast out from heaven over the sin of pride…

“Their God is my God.”

March 9, 2015

The man from Chad kneeled upon the beach from Hell.

He gazed to his left, and then his right. He saw 20 men, all Coptic Christians, prepared to answer a question that would determine whether they live or die:

My top ten religious movies for Lent

March 6, 2015

I love movies that depict the power of faith.

There is no one magic formula for a successful religious movie. Sometimes, it is an historical epic. Other times, it is a story of faith in action. Or it could be a docudrama on the life of a saint.

I especially love to dig into these films during Lent and let the beauty of God’s love wash over me.

Here is my updated top ten list of religious movies I like to watch during Lent:

Why I’m Catholic

March 5, 2015

But if there is no arbiter of Truth, there is no truth. Protestantism was built on protest. There is no central authority. As a result, there are 40,000 flavors of Protestantism, with wide-ranging dissent on wide-ranging theological questions.