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On the Road to Damascus: August 2014
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Friday, August 29, 2014. About a year after leaving the military I met a girl and we started to date. She was the first girl I truly dated and she was Catholic. Sunday obligation was important to her parents and they tried for months to get me to go with them. In the second year of our marriage she got pregnant with our first child. I vowed to raise my children Catholic and I had every intention to do so. I felt it was dishonest to raise a child in a fai...I was...
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On the Road to Damascus: March 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Is it better to give or receive? For those who remember their Baltimore Catechism the memorized definition of a sacrament is;. Is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace.”. The current Catechism of the Catholic Church defines a sacrament as;. 8220;Efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church. By which divine life is dispensed to us.” CCC1127. Webster defines a sacrament as;. We know that there i...
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On the Road to Damascus: July 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Recently I found a lump at the base of my jaw. The doctor looked it over and told me that I had a tumor in my parotid gland. He wanted to biopsy it to see if it were malignant or benign. I asked what the difference was. I had the tumor removed and it was benign. I am now left with a hardly noticeable scar and a divot at the base of the jaw where the tumor was removed. Praise be to God. 8220;So when it was evening on that day, the first day.
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On the Road to Damascus: January 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Do we really still need a Pope and a Magisterium? The human eye cannot concentrate on three things at one time so all focus it set on the front sight. It is placed on the target where I want the bullet to go and then the rear sight is brought into alignment. If I do everything right my bullet will fly true along the path I have selected. Luther removed books from the canon of scripture that he thought were there in error and he wante...
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On the Road to Damascus: February 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Monday, February 9, 2015. Do I really have to give something up for Lent? With Lent almost upon us it is time again to start thinking about what I will give up this year. But why should I have to give up anything? Why do we celebrate Lent every year? It’s all about the suffering right? It is like me buying myself a birthday gift and then giving it to my five year old son to give to me on my birthday. He is so proud of the gift he got for his daddy. Let us use th...
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On the Road to Damascus: June 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Thursday, June 18, 2015. What we do with our bodies we do with our spirits. One thing that always upsets me is when I see the disrespect of our Lord by those who claim to love him the most. This is especially apparent twice a year – between May and June as the weather turns warmer and again in the fall as football season ramps up. Yes, I am going to rant about clothing. Doesn’t he know I have more important things to do today? And that is where I think the probl...
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On the Road to Damascus: April 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Friday, April 24, 2015. A Response to my Anonymous Friend. 8220;It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’ but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the. Reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”. 8211; Matthew 5, 31 and 32. Matthew 19, 8 and 9. The answer may surprise you. In Jesus day women were considered possessions. They could...
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On the Road to Damascus: May 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Thursday, May 21, 2015. 8220;Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number,. A complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews. Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food. So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables. The ordination of the first deacons - Acts 6, 1 – 6. QUICK FACTS ABOUT PERMANENT DEACONS.
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On the Road to Damascus: August 2015
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Thursday, August 13, 2015. My mother is at the end of her life. She smoked menthols for fifty-two years and that has decimated her lungs. She has emphysema and chronic obstructed pulmonary disease (COPD). Her lungs are only functioning at around 10%. She is slowly suffocating to death. Death by suffocation is what effectively happens to a person when they are crucified. It is a slow, painful, and an extremely scary way to die. Why was my mother made to suffer?
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On the Road to Damascus: Diaconate Update
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On the Road to Damascus. My walk with God. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Well, I made it through the preaspirancy classes over the summer and went before the Diaconate Review Board on Friday, August 7th, 2015. I was officially accepted into the aspirancy. The four guys that I went through ministry formation with who also applied to the diaconate were accepted as well. We'll be together for at least another two years now. Thanks be to God. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). DR Sojourner's Daily Reflection.
