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Are you thirsty for solid Catholic content? Do you seek to raise your children in a vibrant Catholic culture that helps them become faithful adults? Are your hungry for truth, goodness and beauty? Are you tired of parish programs that waste resources and do little to feed the soul? Are you seeking to learn how you can help build up the Body of Christ? Introducing Brian Holdsworth. If you haven't watched this articulate, insightful and faithful fellow share a thoroughly Catholic understanding of the Faith, then you are invited to start by watching one of his videos. Visit Mr. Holdsworth's main site at:  https://www.brianholdsworth.ca/ Brian Holdsworth, a Catholic convert, resides in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife and seven children. His videos are rich with genuine Catholic content, revealing a deep faith. Far from being just another "influencer" or social media personality, he is a true man of God, passionately advocating for truth, goodness, and beauty within the C...

St Luke 5:1-11 | While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” For he was astonished, and all that were with him...

A wise old Irish Catholic gentleman and fellow parishioner that this blogger once knew, three decades ago or thereabouts, said that three things lie at the heart of all people's satisfaction or unease. He spoke in shorthand. God, i.e., issues of faith and belief. Money, i.e., issues of employment and debt. Sex, i.e., a relationship or the end of a relationship. To put it another way, man finds meaning or is wounded by what he believes in or by what he has lost faith in. what he does, by how he sustains himself, or by a loss of livelihood. who he loves and trusts or by who has betrayed his trust, or whose trust he has betrayed. That Catholic gentleman provided a litmus test in aid of helping a wounded person identify himself, his needs versus his wants, his virtues and vices, to provide him with wisdom when he is in most need of a true perspective, understanding, and mercy. Can we be honest with God and others if we are not willing to be honest with ourselves?   Can we expect to fin...

evangelization  (n.) 1650s, action of preaching the Gospel, noun of action from evangelize . From 1827 as act of bringing under the influence of the Gospel. evangelize (v.) late 14c., from Old French evangeliser "to spread or preach the Gospel," and directly from Church Latin evangelizare , from Greek euangelizesthai . Catholic apologists—young and old, lay and ordained—are rising to support the renewed mission to make known the Gospel. They take seriously the Church's call to evangelize, and they are faithful, well-mannered, and well-read. They are converts and cradle Catholics. Their methods are diverse, but they share in common a love of God and love of the Church. Their creative approaches are wed to Tradition. Their lives are a celebration of God's mercy. They are literate in the wisdom of God and the theology of the Church. They are steeped in history, and they bring enthusiasm to their respective callings under the umbrella of the mission to share the Gospel fo...

Say 'no' to communion in the hand... to say 'yes' to the profound adoration of God by receiving the Holy Eucharist on the tongue. I mention, for example, a change not proposed by the Council Fathers or by the Sacrosanctum Concilium, Holy Communion received in the hand. This has contributed to some extent to a weakening of faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This, and the removal of altar rails and kneelers in church and the introduction of practices which oblige the faithful to sit or stand at the elevation of the Sacred Host, weakens the genuine significance of the Eucharist and the Church’s profound sense of adoration for the Lord, the Only Son of God. Albert Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith (November, 2007) | Behind communion-in-the-hand – I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can – is a weakening, a conscious, a deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.  Father John Hardon, S.J., November, 1997 |  One receives in the mouth what one believes ...

The Dispute of Saint Catherine of Alexandria  | Francisco Ribalta People perceive the world through various lenses. It may be a lens of their choosing, or perhaps a lens that has chosen them. In the latter case, individuals might be navigating life by adopting a lens that offers the least resistance or the simplest path they've discovered, without explicitly acknowledging its existence. Of the former, the lens may be trained or focused in a way that constrains understanding into a narrow ideological perspective that creates blind spots, or the lens—being a true lens that does not filter the information—may open the viewer to a much wider and more honest view of reality. When viewed through a foggy lens, Human sexuality appears fluid and chaotic. The mind is ruled by the senses and seduced into submission to the material. The mind becomes addicted to solutions of a mechanical and materialistic kind and, ironically, the person becomes addicted to self medicating himself. When one ...

At the website of the Ordinariate (OLSC*) Catholic Parish of Saints Ninian and Chad, the question, 'What is the English Patrimony?' is answered as follows: The English, or Anglican, Patrimony is the sum total of the spiritual, liturgical, pastoral, cultural and social traditions that have come down to us primarily via the experience of Christian life primarily in England, but also to an extent from the whole of the British Isles. It begins with the first unknown missionaries to England, from the protomartyr Saint Alban, and continues through the Celtic Church, the Roman-Gregorian Mission of Saint Augustine of Canterbury. It includes the lives and writings of great figures like Saint Bede the Venerable, Edward the Confessor, Saint Anselm, Saint Richard of Chichester, Saint Hilda of Whitby, Margery Kemp, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle, the Lady Julian of Norwich, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing , St Aelred of Riveaux, and continues down through the era of the time of the separ...

DEI content may not only increase the hostile attribution bias but converges with outcomes produced by authoritarian traits themselves. NCRI A recent study published under the auspices of the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab evaluates equity, diversity and inclusivity programs (EDI or DEI).  The study found that decent people, "as a result of these programs, have experienced undue duress, social ostracization, or even termination of employment." The research team that compiled the data is not asking whether or not DEI programs produce a hostile attribution bias.  They are stating the fact that such programs can and often times do produce and increase a hostile attribution bias. - - - INSTRUCTING ANIMOSITY HOW DEI PEDAGOGY PRODUCES THE HOSTILE ATTRIBUTION BIAS NCRI | Rutgers University Social Perception Lab https://www.openread.academy/en/paper/reading?corpusId=513675482 Equity Extremists: How Anti-Oppressive Narratives Converge with Authoritarian Intolerance (p.1...