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This article is being written to appear on the Friday, three weeks before Easter Sunday as it appears on the Gregorian or civil calendar, which is the calendar most of the world uses these days. But for those Christian churches which still adhere to the Julian Calendar, Easter Sunday will not be until May 1. But that isn't the important fact of this, the greatest and holiest day of the year. No matter which date we celebrate, what we are celebrating is the most important fact. We are celebrating...
A short time ago, the world was shocked by the horrendous attacks in Paris, France, and in Mali on the African continent as well as uncovering a plot for a similar attack in Brussels. These atrocities were planned and committed in the name of a religion. That religion is Islam, a religion of the Middle East. But these events, as we all know, have little or no basis in Islam. Over the years I have known a goodly number of people from the Middle East, Muslims as well as Christians, and none of them that I have known would have ever perpetrated...
Many years ago, I remember sitting on a bench in my grandparents’ backyard and listening to him talking to a friend who had stopped by for a visit. I overheard him say, “August is a good month to get work done. There are no holidays in August.” Of course, this wasn’t important to a child of 10 or 11 but, a year or so later when I was an altar boy in our church, I realized that there were two special days in August: two Holy Days – Aug. 6, the Transfiguration, and Aug. 15, the Dormition, also called the Assumption of Mary. Later when I joined...
This article is prompted by the statements of several politicians who have entered the race to become the President of the United States. We are the greatest nation in the world. We were founded by men (and women) who believed in God. Several of those were Deists, which means that although they believed in God they felt that God was too important and man too insignificant for God to spend too much time worrying about him. But they believed in God and they recognized the moral and natural laws that he had given man. Many were sincere believers...
Today, I’d like to bring to your attention an article that appeared in the Jan.-Feb. edition of Touchstone magazine. The article was written by Dr. Randall B. Smith, a professor who holds the Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology at St. Thomas University in Houston. Professor Smith’s article is called “The Coming Perfect Storm.” In it, he discusses five points that I quote here: •The cheapening of the notion of religious conscience into a type of feeling •The loss of a proper sense of moral good such that the burden of proof has shifted fro...
Lent is drawing to a close. Sunday will be the 5th Sunday of Lent and there is only one more week to go before we reach the special Church Season of Holy Week. The season in which we commemorate Jesus’ triumphal entrance into the Holy City of Jerusalem. His giving us the Eucharistic Feast; followed by His passion and suffering and His death in the most ignominious way – on the cross, despised by those who, only a few days before, had honored His arrival. Then His glorious Resurrection from the dead, proving His power over death. The chu...
