Fides et Ratio is also on You Tube Rosary Basics The Rosary as an object is a chaplet or string of beads. These beads are grouped in five sets of ten, or decades, with a large bead or other ornament separating each set. The beads culminate in a small medallion with the Virgin Mary’s picture and then a small string…
Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary>> Confirmation of Resurrection for Us (link prior GG shows) #722 The Holy Spirit prepared Mary by His grace, she cooperated freely throughout her life with His promptings. Gabriel calls her ‘full of grace’. She was like the burning bush of Moses. Filled with grace but not consumed. Mary was the…
Ascension =The entry of Jesus’ humanity into divine glory in God’s heavenly domain, 40 days after his Resurrection #665 this glorified humanity hides [Jesus] from the eyes of men (cfr. Col 3:3) Eastern Catholic mind Ascension & Pentecost are two sides of the same coin. Mush like the Cross & Easter in the Western Catholic…
Attributes of the Resurrected Body of Jesus Sacred Scripture and Catholic theology teach that our glorified resurrected bodies will experience four properties as an outflow of the beatified soul enjoying the vision of God’s essence: Sanctity>sanity>ensouled body 1) Impassibility – the glorified body will no longer suffer physical sickness or death, as Saint Paul teaches…
Happiness To know that one is loved without reserve, is the firm basis for happiness. Christ promised to make our joy complete as His was Jn 15:11 The Catholic Book of Bible Promises (Servant Books Ann Arbor, Michigan) 1970 Happiness starts in this life and is brought to completion in the world to come. Abiding…
Jesus gives cost for following Look at the costs versus the rewards of undertaking, profit and loss Lk 14:31-32 Go into battle presume there is a good to be obtained Calculate necessary forces required Take up Cross, engage the battle Rewards? A life that makes sense, happiness, and eternal beatitude Life of sanity, life can…