Catholic365.com : page 52 : Latest Articles in Mass & Sacraments

The following is an excerpt from Christina M. Sorrentino’s new book, Belonging to Christ: Catholic Poetry that reflects on the Gospel reading for today, The Samaritan Woman (John 4:5-42), for the First Scrutiny, the Third Sunday of Lent.
Read More...

Finding happiness 5: Relationship

By Debra Black

We are created for relationship; specifically, for this relationship with God. Yet we live in a society and world where people and relationships are disposable. This excerpt from Belonging: An Invitation to Happiness for Millennial Catholics explores aspects of society that have confused our notion of relationship.
Read More...

Finding happiness 4: The Mystery in Belonging

By Debra Black

People are seeking to be…a ‘people’. We seek to belong to a group of ‘others’ who are recognizable by how they live out their beliefs; how they walk the talk. Longing to be part of a spiritual society within the world, we seek more than community. We have an innate desire for communion. It is written into our very nature…
Read More...

Rituals Matter

By Nancy Lessard

In a society that has become very casual there are still places where rituals matter.
Read More...

Veiling the Cross

By Patti J. Mitchell

What the veil on the cross means to me.
Read More...

A Thin Place

By Stephen Clark

To see the stones on the hillsides of medjugorje eroded with the tears of millions of penitent lost sheep is amazing grace indeed. Addicts are set free, the sick healed, the broken hearted put back together again.
Read More...

Finding happiness 3: Belonging

By Debra Black

What is this mystery of belonging to Jesus Christ? This Excerpt from Belonging: An Invitation to Happiness for Millennial Catholics invites you to use your spiritual imagination to understand the forming of Jesus’ followers.
Read More...

Looking Forward to Lent, Part 3: When in Doubt, Bring it Out

By Janet W. Butler

The beauty of total "transparency" in Confession.
Read More...

Cultivating Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament this Lenten Season

By Lauren Alex

This article offers Lenten suggestions to grow closer to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Read More...

Cycle C -- Homily -- 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time -- 27 February 2022

By Roberta M. Meehan

Homily
Read More...

Finding happiness 2: The search

By Debra Black

Living in 21st century America is a paradoxical experience. A person can be alone and never be lonely. Another person can have a life full of people yet be extremely lonely. Rather than existing in isolation, loneliness usually is lived out in a crowd. Per St. John Paul II, ““It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness”.
Read More...

BAPTISMAL PRESENTATION

By Deacon John

For parents and godparents to understand their responsibility when a child is baptized.
Read More...

60 Years Later Pope Saint John XXIII trumps Pope Francis

By Pamela Grothaus, ShowMeCatholics

oday as the Church pays homage to In Cathedra S. Petri Apóstolo (the Chair of St. Peter), members of the Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri (FSSP) worldwide are celebrating with relief and gratitude Pope Francis’ February 11 decree providing a seeming exemption from the general provisions of Traditionis Custodes.
Read More...

Old Jim

By Joe Sixpack - The Every Catholic Guy

A former American slave shows us how to lice our Catholic faith.
Read More...

Who do you give your heart to?

By Troy Kroening

God giving His heart through confession
Read More...

Why We Call Him Father

By Laurika Nxumalo

Jesus said to His Disciples that they should not call anyone on earth 'Father' because their father is the one who is in Heaven; despite Him having said that, Catholics continue to call their priests 'Father'. This article explains and teaches why Catholics address their priests as 'Father'.
Read More...

BAPTISMAL PRESENTATION - TO SAVE THE SOULS OF CHILDREN

By Deacon John

For parents and godparents to understand their responsibility when a child is baptized.
Read More...