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Lent: A History, its Precept, and a Challenge
A Lenten Challenge: What will be “given up”
for Lent? Most people approach this in its simplest and least
mortifying form and not really from a spiritual growth point of
view. There are three levels of mortification. Most people will
practice Level 1 during Lent. But to have any real benefit from
Lent we need to aspire to Level 2, and better yet, Level 3. What
are these levels?
Three
Secret Strategies of Satan
to Destroy our Children, our Families,
our Culture, and our Church
Satan has a secret. It is the secret about his three
primary strategies to destroy us. If Satan can convince our
culture to adopt the philosophy precipitated by these secret
strategies he can brainwash our children, disrupt our families,
manipulate our culture, and bring apostasy within the Church.
Should Christians Participate in Halloween?
Halloween always evokes intense emotions whenever someone
begins to caution people about this so-called holiday.
Why Do I Want to
be Catholic
The following essay was written during the last weeks
of RCIA just before brother was confirmed into the Catholic
Church. Each candidate was given an assignment to answer
“Why Be Catholic”. This was his answer...
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How to Think Properly About
Fasting
The subject of fasting is one that causes much confusion
and even guilt that Satan can then use to beat over our heads.
Thus offered here are some guidelines on how we should think
about fasting.
Obedience (the First
and Foundational Virtue)
Be a Catholic or don't be! Jesus has some things to say
about lukewarmness...and lukewarmness about obedience is on
both so-called “left-wing” and
“right-wing” factions. OBEDIENCE “is”
and has always been, the issue of our time, and all time, from
the Garden of Eden to today.
The Truth About Pope
Joan
The first thing we need to remember in doing
apologetics is that when aberrant histories are presented to
us, the burden of proof IS NOT for us to “disprove”
the errant histories. The burden of proof is on them to prove
their theory. Thus in this case, the burden of proof is on
the people who wish to assert a “Pope Joan” to
prove she existed. We need not prove she didn't.
Seven
Kinds of Ghosts
This is a study gleaned from the wisdom of St. Thomas
Aquinas, Peter Kreeft, and others on the possible nature and
kinds of “ghostly” phenomena that has been well
documented throughout history.
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