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WHY TO WE TOUCH LEFT THEN RIGHT WHEN WE MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS?
Some years ago while working as an AmeriCorps VISTA, a non-Catholic colleague asked me something that I didn't have an answer to. It was near the end of our year of service, so I never got back...Read more
CAN A PERSON BECOME POSSESSED INADVERTENTLY?
QUESTION? / COMMENT!
Can a person become possessed inadvertently?
ANSWER! / COMMENT!
The portrayal of posession in the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose showed the devil stalking and forcibly entering the body of a pious...Read more
A Catholic... but does not believe in God anymore
QUESTION? / COMMENT!
I am a captain with an industrial fire dept. I pray with the firemen on my shift before we start our day. I have a new fire fighter on my shift who is a Catholic but...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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Heaven Grows in Us
"Heaven is very close to us because heaven is related to a good life in much the same way that an acorn is related to an oak. An acorn is bound to become an oak. He who does not have heaven in his heart now will never go to heaven, and he who has hell in his heart when he dies will go to hell. We must not think that heaven is related to a good life in the same way a gold medal is related to study. Because a gold medal need not follow study. It is purely extrinsic to study. Rather, heaven is related to a good and virtuous life in just the same way that knowledge is related to study. One necessarily follows the other. Hell is not related to an evil life in the same way that spanking is related to an act of disobedience. Spanking need not follow an act of disobedience. As a matter of fact, it rarely follows disobedience today. Rather, it is related in the same way that corruption is related to death. One necessarily follows the other. Therefore, heaven is not just a long way off; we are not to postpone it. It is here. That is to say, it begins here."