Homilies, Prayers, & Catholic Book Summaries
For the blog post, go here: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/03/11/behold-thy-mother-john-1927-explained-3rd-word-from-the-cross/
Full blog post: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/03/07/today-you-will-be-with-me-in-paradise-luke-2343-explained-2nd-word-from-the-cross/
For the YouTube video, go here: https://youtu.be/jwskFlaXZnY For the blog post, go here: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/03/06/father-forgive-them-explained-passion-of-the-christ-movie/
https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/29/a-word-to-the-thinkers-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-7-with-fulton-j-sheen/
For the blog post, go here: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/26/a-word-to-the-sensationalists-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-6-with-fulton-j-sheen/
"Whenever there is silence around me By day or by night— I am startled by a cry. It came down from the cross— The first time I heard it. I went out and searched— And found a man in the throes of crucifixion, And I said, “I will take you down,” And I tried to take the nails out of his feet. But he said, “Let them be, For I cannot be taken down Until every man, every woman, and every child Come together to take me down.” And I said, “But I cannot bear your cry. What can I do?” And he said, “Go about the world— Tell every one that you meet— There is a man on the cross.” - Original Poem by Elizabeth Cheney https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/26/there-is-a-man-on-the-cross-by-fulton-j-sheen-poem-for-lent/
For the text and blog post, go here: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/26/a-word-to-the-moderns-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-5-with-fulton-j-sheen/
For the blog post with text and video: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/20/a-word-to-the-intelligentsia-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-4-with-fulton-j-sheen/
For the blog post, go here: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/19/a-word-to-the-selfish-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-3-with-fulton-j-sheen/
For the blog post: https://prodigalcatholic.com/2024/02/17/a-word-to-sinners-the-7-last-words-of-jesus-part-2-with-fulton-j-sheen/
“I slipped His fingers, I escaped His feet, I ran and hid, for Him I feared to meet. One day I passed Him, fettered on a Tree, He turned His Head, and looked, and beckoned me. “Neither by speed, nor strength could He prevail. Each hand and foot was pinioned by a nail. He could not run or clasp me if He tried, But with His eye, He bade me reach His side. “For pity's sake, thought I, I'll set you free. ‘Nay — hold this cross,' He said, ‘and follow me. This yoke is easy, this burden light, Not hard or grievous if you wear it tight.' “So did I follow Him Who could not move, An uncaught captive in the hands of Love.”
Fulton Sheen's 1944 lecture on the 7 Last Words. The first of seven possible attitudes toward the Cross is that of humanism, for the first group to challenge the Cross was the humanists. The term humanist is here understood in the modern philosophical sense and embraces all those who want a religion without a Cross. They believe that man is naturally good, that progress is inevitable through science, and that human reason, by its own effort, is able to restore peace to the world and to consciences. The prototypes of the humanists on Good Friday were the "passerbys." They think themselves wise because they had a passing acquaintance with Christ. Their words? “You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross” (Mt 27:40). Christ's response? "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
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Surrender your past, present, and future to Jesus!
Surrender all your past to God's mercy & all your future to His providence!
Final Mass for Grade 12 class at Vancouver College High School
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Part 2 of our stewardship homily series on the parish. Prayer for the week: "How can I help?"
What was Padre Pio's secret?
Want to win $100 from me? Take on the Easter challenge :)
What was Jesus' secret to be able to make such extreme acts of self-sacrificial love?
What is the world's greatest treasure? Are you willing to burn the 4 ships that lurk in the bay to great that treasure?
God gave St. Catherine of Siena 3 signs to know whether we are going to heaven. Do you know what they are?
Find out how Jesus wants to heal our wounds of shame through Confession.
If the Catholic Church was a sport's team & had a mascot, would this mascot be the unicorn? Find out why not...
Don't try to run away from the crosses that come... embrace them. St. Francis de Sales invites us to a different approach The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.
Don't fight or flight from the deadly wound of fear... invite Jesus in...
Knowing that He would raise Him from the dead, WHY did Jesus still WEEP over Lazarus? Meg Hunter-Kilmer answers the question.
Learn about the amazing story of how Simeon waited for Jesus.
If God gave you a magic wand & granted you 1 wish, what would you wish for? What would be the 1 thing for ask from the Lord?
Jesus doesn't just have a crush on you and want to date you... He wants to marry you!
Incense is a beautiful symbol of what it looks like to give God our worst and why it is so precious to do so.
How do you fall in love with baby Jesus? Learn about straws of love for Jesus' manger.
Do you know what are the 2 tactics the devil uses to keep us out of the world cup of salvation history?
Do you believe you can become a saint? Do you believe you can create just 1 holy moment?
A new analogy to understand the fire of God's love to melt away all of our sins in Confession
This Advent: Will you be a consumer (and focus on yourself)? or a consoler (and focus on Jesus)? Join our parish-wide challenge!
3 reasons Euthanasia is wrong is that it's a failure to love yourself, others, and God.
God loves backwards. The crazy love of God. Jesus loves good behaviour into us.
One of my new favourite saints - a Chinese martyr of the 19th century... St. Mark Ji Tianxiang. Mark was an opium addict at the time of his death. Not had been an opium addict... in some previous sinful life of his before he had some dramatic conversion story you read about in the lives of the saints... No. Mark was an opium addict at the time of his death.
There are two options to get to the top of Grouse Mountain Hike up - the hard approach Gondola - the easy approach This is the same in life. Allow the story of Blessed Pier-Giorgio Frassati to inspire you for greatness
Our hearts are hungry until they are fed on God alone. What's your happy meal?
3 lessons: suffering saints surrender
Who are you a Dory for? Who's your Dory?
The salmon's journey is a great image of the life that Jesus lived. In today's 2nd reading, we heard that Jesus, for the sake of the JOY that was set before Him endured the hostility of sinners & the shame of the Cross Jesus swam upstream to the goal of heaven And when Jesus ended His amazing journey to the place he came from. just like the salmon In his death, Jesus was able to bring forth an abundance of new life - eternal life.
What is toxic masculinity and why does it matter?
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