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CONFESSION IS NOT JUST FOR MORTAL SINS
You and Terry urge us to go to frequent confession, once a month if possible. I think that’s a good a idea. I try to do every couple months. But Sometimes I feel like I can’t think...Read more
FATHERLY INSTINCTS
My young son wants to wear a star wars t-shirt given to him as a gift. It has the face of darth Vader and the print “may the force be with you”. I worry that by allowing...Read more
GIFT OF TONGUES
Jesse, I was told to receive the “gift of tongues” all I had to do was go to a charismatic prayer meeting and ask God from my heart and he would give me the “gift of tongues”?...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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We Need To Resolve To Change
When we are young, we have physical and emotional energy, but we are very much opposed to the expenditure of spiritual energy. In middle age we drift; the old become fixed and settled and refuse to change. And in this day when there is so much affirmation of self, we have almost turned around the words of John the Baptist saying: I must increase, He must decrease. I must draw attention to myself, and He must suffer the eclipse and decline. T. S. Eliot said that when everyone is running toward a precipice, he who walks in the opposite direction seems to have lost his mind. So when we fall into a pattern of ordinariness, we are loath to change.