This past Saturday, we concluded the third and final piece of our Go Make Disciples Live, the diocesan collaboration with The Evangelical Catholic to provide some practical formation for the lay faithful of our parishes to engage and evangelize others with greater competence and confidence.
Category: Bishop Hying’s Columns
Viewing the Second Vatican Council
In last week’s column, I discussed Reinhold Niebuhr’s three-fold model of how Christians relate to the culture around them.
Christ and culture
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), an influential Protestant theologian in the United States, greatly impacted how we think about the relationship of religion and culture.
The need for solitude
The older I get, the more comfortable I am being alone. That feeling is probably a common one because the increasing maturity of years leads to deeper self-knowledge and a confidence in our identity.
The Church and human dignity
Through the Catholic faith, God has revealed to us the mystery and meaning of our human nature. Our fundamental identity rests in our relationship with the One who created, saved, and sanctified us.
The Resurrection and its place in our lives
Matthew is the only Gospel to narrate the plot of the chief priests in Jerusalem to discredit the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus by bribing the guards at the tomb to say that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus at night. (Matthew 28: 11-15)
Embrace Holy Saturday
In celebrating the Sacred Triduum, we can easily pass over the significance of Holy Saturday. We move from the pathos of Good Friday to the joy of the Easter Vigil on Saturday night, with just a few brief hours in between.
‘It is finished’
Jesus’ final words from the Cross were: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46) and “It is finished.” (John 19:30) With this, Christ dies, handing His life over to the Father.
Satisfying Christ’s ‘thirst’
“I thirst,” Jesus said in John 19:28. Imagine how physically thirsty Jesus was on the Cross!
Behold your mother
“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother’. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” (John 19: 25-27)