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Discerning Encounter School of Ministries
Thank you for your fidelity to Truth! And for bringing clarity in these confusing times. Encounter School of Ministries recent opened a campus in our Diocese and I’ve been invited to complete the two year formation and...Read more
Fidelity in Times of Darkness
Though Saint Faustina and many other great saints entered into a unique spiritual darkness, defined by St. John of the Cross as the “Dark Night of the Soul” and the “Dark Night of the Spirit,” we all will experience a...Read more
What is a Prophet? What is a Prophecy? Can Prophecy be suspended?
Prophēteuo The word prophēteuo is a combination of the prefix pro-, meaning “before” and the root phe-, referring to speech. Prophēteuo means to speak publicly, or to speak of something before it happens. Moses was a prophet (Deut. 34:10 ),...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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DEPENDENCE IN LOVE
Our freedom, therefore, is not an independence of truth, but rather dependence in love. That is the joy of being a Catholic. Perhaps I can make it clear with this analogy. On an island in the sea there were children. Around the island were great high walls. Inside those walls the island children sang and danced and played. One day some men came in a rowboat to that island. They were reformers, and they said to the children, “Who put up those walls? Someone is restraining your freedom. Tear them down.” The children tore them down. Now if you go back, you will find all of the children huddled together in the center of the island, afraid to play, afraid to sing, afraid to dance, afraid of falling into the sea. That is the Church, the wall is truth, and as Christ said, “If the Son of Man makes you free, you are free indeed.”