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What is a patron saint? What is a saint? Who is your favorite? A saint is basically anybody who lives happily for eternity with God in heaven. The Baltimore Catechism # 1 (and 2) question 6 asks, "Why did God make you?" It answers by saying that "God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next." Thus, it is proper to say that our purpose in life is to become saints, and that the purpose of the Church is to help us... Read More
Note: This is part one of a series of five posts about God. These were originally written as an RCIA presentation about God the Father. These posts are in an expanded form, and the presentation as given does not necessarily follow the posts exactly. I was constrained in the presentation itself to keep the time to under about 45 minutes or so, and to be somewhat conversational (sine it was their first formal session). Here is the full written transcript, which goes beyond what I did in the pre... Read More
"As parents, we'd be pretty shoddy if we didn't point out our children's mistakes." This is an excerpt from a comment on Mr Cristobal Almanza's post concerning " judging" for the Austin Catholic New Media site. It is the most obvious example in which we are called to make a sort of judgment—and then to act upon that judgment. H... Read More
Saint Catherine of Siena wrote:
"So that you receive the whole Divine Essence in that most sweet Sacrament concealed under the whiteness of bread; for as the sun cannot be divided into light, heat, and color, the whole of God and the whole o... Read More
Note: To participate in the "study" pillar of Dominican life, the Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (North Austin/Round Rock) chapter of Lay Dominicans in the Southern (US) Province is currently reading The Dominican Tradition: Spirituality in History one chapter at a time, with one member presenting a reflection of the chapter du... Read More
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