Our friend, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive communion without having received absolution in the Sacrament of Penance.” (CCC 1415).
Category: Editorial
Come, Holy Spirit
Let God the Holy Spirit into your life and bring it into your prayer life whether you’re praising God, praying for what you need (want), praying for what others need, or thanking God for all the Trinity has done and blessed you with in your life.
Put no trust in creatures
There are many times God works His wonders through others. These are the “creatures” that are truly there to help us, love us, be with us, and be examples to us on how to live out His mission and call.
The agony (or blessing?) of defeat
We can all “run to win,” but we all can’t win. There has to be a place in this world for the “losers”.
SPOILER ALERT: Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday
SPOILER ALERT: God knows what’s coming next. We might not like it, but He’s with us.
The decline and fall of the written word
What was once something so personal and so human — because it had to be — is going the way of everything else that became industrialized, mass-produced, and heartlessly churned out.
Looking for answers where there are none
There are many things in life we will know the truth about. We might not like a lot of it, but we’ll know in time what we want to know.
Back to the garden
Every year, large numbers of people remember and celebrate three historic days that they believe changed the world.
Leaping back to 1996
We thought it would be “fun” to go back 28 years (wow) and see what the world according to the Catholic Herald was like in late February of 1996.
Don’t be a ‘sometimes sinner’
I’m certainly not encouraging us to be obligatory about this and feel that “if we’re going to sin anyway, we might as well make it a good one (see: presumption),” but even if we don’t see ourselves — and probably aren’t — as bad as some of the most evil people who may or may not be in the bad place, we’re still sinners who sin.
Even if we’re bright shining lights for all six out of seven days, that remaining day could be the difference in what happens to us when we die.