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Come join Me and Anita in Poland on May 13 - 22, 2020
Come with me and Anita to Poland. This is the land which has given us some of the most incredible saints in the 20th century – St Faustina, St Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed Edith Stein, St John Paul II. Poland is...Read more
Sounds the same! But different!
I heard you speak about deprecatory and imprectory prayer on Jesus 911. I'm wondering if you could give me a definition of each and a little more explanation. Thank you.
ANSWER!"An imprecatory prayer is one in which...Read more
When the apostate angels rebelled, what happened to their hierarchy?
In Dante's Inferno, when Dante and his guide Virgil reach the back of the Prince of Evil through a trap door in the center of the earth and then make their way upward through the various circles of purgatory. There,...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Below, you'll discover a daily reflection, taken from this incredible bishop.
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Peter and suffering
If there was one dominant characteristic about St. Peter, it was that he hated discipline, mortification, and self-denial. He's just like the rest of us. He wanted to lay hold of the immediate and that which is joyful, but he did not want to have anything really crucial in his life. That is evidenced first of all on the Mount of the Transfiguration. Here our Blessed Lord revealed himself in his risen glory when his face shone as the sun and his garments were as white as snow. While he was in this state, Moses and Elijah appeared. And what did our Lord talk to them about? His death. Peter all the while was asleep in a trance, and when he became conscious of the transfiguration, his first thought was: 'Lord it's wonderful to be here.' Let's capture this glow. This is the kingdom of God. The gospel says, 'He did not know what he was saying.' So our Lord later took him down the mountain where there was the father with the demonic child. Peter was to go to still another, mountain, and only after climbing that mountain-Calvary- would he ever understand the glory that came after another, and very different, kind of transfiguration at Calvary. So Peter did not understand suffering.