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How to Wear Holiness
A Christian’s transformation from the old self to a new man or woman in Christ is not a self-help program. A fundamental premise of Christianity is that we cannot do it by ourselves. No matter how well intentioned we may be, we just don’t have what it takes to “pull off’ the change consistently.
The Meaning of Pentecost in the Life of a Christian
Pentecost is more than an event that inaugurated the life of the Church long ago. Pentecost is a moment waiting to happen in the life of every Christian. A moment that can and perhaps needs to happen many times in the life of a Christian. For the meaning of Pentecost we must turn to the ...
Pentecost Novena
“The important thing is to pray to the Holy Spirit so that He may descend on you. When one has Him, one has everything.” “Begin by calling on the Holy Spirit each day. The most important thing is to pray to the ...
The Importance of Daily Prayer
This nine-step format for a personal prayer time is set out for you to get you started. Each step is deeply rooted in the Catholic Spiritual Tradition. Begin with the format as it is, and use it until you become thoroughly comfortable with it -- especially the ...
The Sacrament is called by three names: Confession, because this is the courageous human act at the heart of the Sacrament; Penance, because receiving the Sacrament is a sacred taking of responsibility for our words, deeds and attitudes ...
A cross is constructed of two beams: an upright or vertical beam, and a horizontal beam. Each beam “says” something. It possesses a psychological meaning. The upright or vertical beam says, “God controls.” the horizontal beam says, “I control.”
Repentance
Repentance is an act by which you take on a whole new attitude toward the sinful habits and addictions that cling to your life. Repentance means you ACKNOWLEDGE CLEARLY that God is right about you and sin in your life: your sinful habits and addictions control you; they can, and often do, ...
A Living Relationship with the Word of God
“Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?” This is an often asked question in Christian circles. It is asked and understood in a whole variety of ways, some very narrow and some extremely broad. At the heart of the question is the word, “personal”. What ...
SIX TASKS FOR A LIFETIME
In order to learn these Six Divine Arts we have been given our life-span. The only human tragedy is to have lived a lifetime and not entered into their learning and practice. How good we get is not the critical issue....
Purity of Heart and Integrity of Attitude
This is a Ten Part Series on Sexuality given by Fr. James Chelich. This teaching was distributed during Dunday Worship during the Fall of 2002.
Your Heart Has Two Doors
Your heart was made with two doors, because you are to be God’s partner in God’s great work of giving life. One door of your heart opens up to God. The other door opens up to the world and the people around you....
Continually We Carry the Dying and Rising of Jesus
The entire life of Jesus was death to sin and life for God. Every one of his actions was
a “no” to the sin his human nature wanted him to do, and a “yes” to the good God call us to do. Throughout the full course of his life, each time he acted contrary to his sin-prone human nature, Jesus unwove a part of the old human nature in him and rewove a restored human nature in its place. This was the work of the Divine Person he was. This continued throughout his human life, until at his death, Jesus had rewoven,in himself, a complete and entirely new humanity, a way of being human fully restored to the way God created it to be. The Letter to the Hebrews says:
He Goes Ahead of You
The first Gospel of Easter, the one the Church chooses to announce the resurrection at the Easter Vigil, reads: After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene came with the other Mary to inspect the tomb. Suddenly there was a mighty ...
Easter: Our Conviction, Our Witness and Our Resolve
People came in great numbers to hear Jesus. They were looking for miracles, especially the multiplica-tion of loaves to eat. Jesus challenged them to work for a different kind of food, “a food that remains unto life eternal.”(Jn 6;27) At one point the crowd asks Jesus a question that went to the ...
Wealth
Spiritual wealth is confidence in knowing that you are loved unconditionally. It is to stop seeking from others a love that they, no more than you, can give – and then crucifying them for their failure to give it. It is to find the love we all seek from the unfailing Source of our Being, and to allow it to fill your heart and overflow into the lives of others, bringing them genuine affection and support.