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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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It is a special joy for me to be back with you today; a sign that I through the grace of your prayers and those of so many others and through the assistance of great health professionals have been gradually returning to full health.
2 - Feb 2016 - Marriage: Pope Francis confirms no change to annulment rules, AD2000 Report
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These conditions are not simply an ideal for the few but constitute a reality that with Christs grace can be lived by all baptised faithful.
3 - Dec 2015 - Letters: Synod outcome "led by the Holy Spirit"
To this all we can say is thank God for the grace and humour and serenity and strength of the Holy Father His Holiness Pope Francis.
4 - Nov 2015 - Reflection: We are all called to be saints, Archbishop Julian Porteous
It is the triumph of grace over sin of love over hate of light over darkness of life over death.
5 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
Be assured of my prayers that the Lord will reward all of you with his abundant gifts of grace!
6 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
It said As a faithful and indissoluble union between a man and a woman called to accept one another and to welcome life the sacrament of marriage is a great grace for the human family.
7 - Oct 2015 - Letters: What is eternal life?, Francis Vrijmoed
In other words heaven is eternal life and as eternal life is in the midst of time Our Lady (although the Cardinal does not mention her) being full of Grace must have already experienced heaven during her life on earth notwithstanding she voluntarily accepted to be the Queen of Martyrs during her earthly life.
8 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
This is the sign that she will be the one to distribute the graces which come from her Son.
9 - Oct 2015 - APREL: Wake up the world - Religious Life back on the map, Anne Reeves
One thing to be thankful for is that by the grace of the Holy Spirit this manifest failure-rate has set in motion a new interest among young Catholics in the traditions of their Faith and this includes an interest in the religious life as the Church has always conceived it.
10 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
They are called to live chastely and with the support of friends and the grace of God they can and should grow in Christian perfection.
11 - Sep 2015 - Reflection: The proper celebration of the Mass, Cardinal Robert Sarah
Liturgical participatio must therefore be understood as a grace from Christ who always associates the Church with Himself (Sacrosanctum Concilium 7).
12 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore
It says In considering a pastoral approach towards people who have contracted a civil marriage who are divorced and remarried or simply living together the Church has the responsibility of helping them understand the divine pedagogy of grace in their lives and offering them assistance so they can reach the fullness of the Gods plan for them.
13 - Aug 2015 - Reflection: The doctrine of the Assumption, Pope Pius XII
And although the Church has always recognised this supreme generosity and the perfect harmony of graces and has daily studied them more and more throughout the course of the centuries still it is in our own age that the privilege of the bodily Assumption into heaven of Mary the Virgin Mother of God has certainly shone forth more clearly.
14 - Jun 2015 - Family: Pope Francis upholds Church teaching on the family, Fr Ken CLark OLSC
But in reality it is inscribed in Gods creative design and with the grace of Christ innumerable Christian couples despite their sins and limitations have achieved this!
15 - Jun 2015 - Life issues: Reflections on the death penalty, Anne Lastman
During the ten years in prison much work had been done to assist them and to bring about a change in them and indeed we saw the end result of all the work and grace which helped to change the young men from drug couriers to reformed young men who went to their deaths different than the young men who had been arrested ten years earlier.
16 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
It is a challenge for us for it urges us to rise up to the level of their sainthood through the grace of God.
17 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
Your people illuminated by Christs light and by his grace have overcome many trials and sufferings animated by the hope which comes from the Cross (cf Rom 8:31-39).
18 - Mar 2015 - Reflection: Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Anne Lastman
As we approach the feast of the Annunciation the words used by the Angel Gabriel to greet Mary Hail full of grace is an accurate but perhaps plain translation of the words spoken originally in Aramaic the common language of Galileans 2000 years ago.
19 - Mar 2015 - NACF: National Catholic Families Conference attracts 400 to Albury, Kathleen Horsfall and Marie-Louise Fowler
It was an awesome grace-filled time!
20 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
The Beatitudes given by Jesus are the ways and pathways to happiness Bishop Mallari continued saying that what is important is that we have the humility to recognise our worthiness of Gods grace to really allow the grace of God to flow down us.
21 - Feb 2015 - Reflection: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Anne Lastman
Marys holiness was confirmed by the Angel Gabriel at the Annunciation when the Angel said she was full of grace and added the Lord is with you.
22 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Homosexuality, Anne Lastman
We further know that as long as the individual lives there can always be a moment of grace where the passing by of the Holy Spirit animates a change and assists a conversion.
23 - Feb 2015 - The family and the Church in 2015, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Lets pray this morning that the voices will be heard and the word the Church will speak through the Synod will be not just more burble but the word of Jesus Christ himself who learned the most basic lessons of human life within a family growing there in wisdom age and grace (Luke 2:52).
24 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
May I suggest that our faith communities are really local neighbourhoods of grace.
25 - Dec 2014 - Reflection: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, Pope Francis
On this night like a burst of brilliant light there rings out the proclamation of the Apostle: Gods grace has been revealed and it has made salvation possible for the whole human race (Tit 2:11).
26 - Dec 2014 - The after-life: Why pray for those who are no longer with us?, Audrey English
The grace of Christ circulates throughout the Body.
27 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
For conversion of heart depending on Gods grace and mercy and slowly gradually trying to conform our lives to what Jesus and the Church have taught.
28 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
This light - the light of a wedding story - shines from the encounter between spouses: it is a gift a grace expressed as the Book of Genesis says (2:18) when the two are face to face as equal and mutual helpers.
29 - Nov 2014 - Reflection: The meaning of life and death, Archbishop Julian Porteous
It is the triumph of grace over sin of love over hate of light over darkness of life over death.
30 - Nov 2014 - Why we make the Sign of the Cross, Cedric Wright
It is used at baptism confirmation marriage all manner of consecration and blessing and at the end of our lives graces the valediction of burial.
31 - Nov 2014 - Why be a priest?, Fr John O'Neill
The necessity of a prayerful mind in the priest is therefore obvious so that his oneness in what Christ thinks and wants is achieved by grace daily more and more to the point where opinion disappears in favour of truth and personal desire is lost in favour of Gods glory and His peoples real needs.
32 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
Progress as a human species remains now as always a moral endeavour for which we depend on Gods grace and never a technocratic enterprise.
33 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
it is pure grace.
34 - Oct 2014 - Art: Sacred art: window into eternity, Tommy Canning
The icon is the fruit of raw materials being gathered together and made into something better still by priestly man and then filled with divine grace.
35 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
The unconditional love of God consists principally in his freedom and eagerness to renew the living spring of grace.
36 - Sep 2014 - Art: The new mural in Sacred Heart Church, Griffith, NSW, Tommy Canning
Under the left arm of the cross large letters as if of crystal clear water which ran down upon the altar formed these words: Grace and Mercy.
37 - Aug 2014 - Reflection: The Assumption: Mary leads us to Heaven, Bishop Anthony Fisher
She witnessed to Gods fidelity to father Abraham and his spiritual children Jews Christians Muslims and all humanity blessed through His grace.
38 - Aug 2014 - War of words: changing society through language, Audrey English
The grace of the Sacrament of Confirmation which we received as children will help us now as adults in our daily encounters.
39 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
A few days later he had a spiritual experience with the rosary which he argues was a key turning point in his conversion saying that through it the floodgates of grace were loosened (p.
40 - Jul 2014 - Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land, AD2000 Report
It presents a providential occasion to reflect on the depth and the authenticity of our existing bonds themselves the fruit of a grace-filled journey on which the Lord has guided us since that blessed day 50 years ago.
41 - Jun 2014 - US Catholic school embroiled in dispute over Church teaching, Kirsten Andersen
I am a Prout alumni who graduated in 2002 wrote Maria-Grace Torti.
42 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Blessed Cardinal Newman observed that conscience is a messenger of him who both in nature and in grace speaks to us behind a veil and teaches and rules us by his representatives.
43 - May 2014 - After the turbulent years: the Church renewed, Fr John O'Neill
At this time came also artificial contraception and many made their choice for that cutting themselves off from grace-giving sacraments and ultimately from attending Mass at all.
44 - May 2014 - Missionaries of God's Love: Vatican recognition lifts status, Br Barry Coldrey
We have a strong vision under the grace of the New Evangelisation proclaimed by recent Popes especially in working with young people.
45 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catholics Come Home outreach website features a new promotion Heavy Burdens which depicts how reconciliation removes the weight of sin bringing renewed peace happiness and Gods sanctifying grace.
46 - Apr 2014 - Reflection: Lent: our preparation for Easter, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
Hopefully our little asceticisms are motivated and empowered by Gods grace and open our hearts to receiving all the more from Him.
47 - Apr 2014 - Events: Holy Week 2014 - Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal)
00 am Installation by His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart of Fr Glen Tattersall as Parish Priest of the Parish of Bl.
48 - Apr 2014 - Depression: Charlotte Dawson: she died of a broken heart, Anne Lastman
Emphasis on the need for grace for healing and restoration of psychological damage of sexual abuse and abortion is important and for Charlotte this was missing.
49 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
The Maidan in Kyiv was strong and effective because it was one body united in the grace of God standing in prayer for peace justice unity and a compassion that the world cannot give.
50 - Mar 2014 - Reflection: Archbishop Chaput's homily on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Hope is the grace to trust that God is who he claims to be and that in serving him we do something fertile and precious for the renewal of the world.
51 - Mar 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-181-0 The Meaning of Grace Charles Journet Cardinal Journets accessible work presents in a clear illustrative manner the Catholic Churchs position on the doctrine of grace through an examination of the Scriptures and the thought of St Thomas Aquinas.
52 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The new generation of priests consists of men who are wholly committed to their vocation and consider celibacy a grace and benefit to ministry White said.
53 - Feb 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-181-0 The Meaning of Grace Charles Journet Cardinal Journets accessible work presents in a clear illustrative manner the Catholic Churchs position on the doctrine of grace through an examination of the Scriptures and the thought of St Thomas Aquinas.
54 - Feb 2014 - The transforming power of Eucharistic Adoration, Fr Joel Wallace
From the liturgy therefore and especially from the Eucharist as from a spring grace is poured forth upon us and the sanctification of all people in Christ and the glorification of God to which all other activities of the Church are directed as toward their end is achieved in the most efficacious way possible (SC 10).
55 - Feb 2014 - The Holy Spirit: "Lord and Giver of Life", Anne Lastman
This of course means that the Holy Spirit is involved with the creative works of God the Father on the physical and spiritual level that is the supernatural life of grace.
56 - Feb 2014 - Art: Interview with Tommy Canning: art in the service of truth
The grace of Confirmation was starting to take effect.
57 - Feb 2014 - Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel: Pope Francis' challenge, Peter Westmore
Frequently we act as arbiters of grace rather than its facilitators.
58 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
The clergys role is to celebrate the sacred mysteries to preach the Word of God and to gather the people of God while the role of the religious is to show by lives lived as witness based on the vows of chastity poverty and obedience that the attraction of the grace of Christ is more powerful than the attraction of earthly realities.
59 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Not just for children and young adults but for all believers the liturgy is the permanent catechesis of the Church the inexhaustible source of union with Jesus and the font of the grace needed to follow him as a true believer.
60 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell
True to himself he died as he had lived with grace and dignity.
61 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
His eloquent calls to prayer; his accent on the revival of the spirit; his concentration on the sacraments and devotions of the Church which bring the grace and mercy of Jesus; his tender trust of Mary the mother of Jesus; and his record saint-making cogently reminded us that the soul comes first.
62 - Nov 2013 - Reflection: Bishop Anthony Fisher: Do you want to be a saint?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
She could be a living saint die in grace and go straight to heaven.
63 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan
Despite the wrong turn of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 it remains my hope and prayer that in time by Gods grace and by our gentle love and witness we will recall society to the path of authentic humanism and thus help everyone hear the call of the Spirit within their hearts to true happiness.
64 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Gods grace will make it possible.
65 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
When the priest realises this he is awestruck and the beauty of it is that his awe will grow with grace.
66 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
If with the grace of the Spirit we were able to stop gossiping it would be a huge step forward Pope Francis said and it would do everyone good.
67 - Oct 2013 - Frassati Australia and the New Evangelisation, Fr Paul Chandler
His Grace has agreed to be our ecclesiastical patron.
68 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
This fountain pours forth unceasingly redemption and grace.
69 - Sep 2013 - Books: MYSTICS IN THE MAKING: Laywomen in Today's Church, by Carolyn Humphreys, Br Barry Coldrey
MYSTICS IN THE MAKING: Laywomen in Todays Church by Carolyn Humphreys (Gracewing 2012 204pp $29.
70 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Ken Bayliss
Jesus send Your Holy Spirit upon us and all our brothers and sisters for the grace to have great love and fidelity for Your Vicar Our Holy Father Pope Francis so that we will always obey the teachings of Your Holy Catholic Church.
71 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
Since it signifies and communicates grace marriage between baptised persons is a true sacrament of the New Covenant.
72 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
In the end the truth won out - the integrity of the deposit of faith and the Churchs magisterium were protected by the enduring grace of the Holy Spirit.
73 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
He has also been actively involved for many years in evangelisation and with a number of ecclesial movements and has written extensively about these: The New Evangelisation Developing Evangelical Preaching (2008); After the Heart of God: the Life and Ministry of Priests at the Beginning of the Third Millennium (2009); A New Wine amp; Fresh Skins: Ecclesial Movements in the Church (2010); Streams of Grace: Spiritual Movements that Shaped the Church (2011); and Become What You Are: Growing in Christian Character (2012).
74 - Aug 2013 - Books: CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: a course in religion for Catholic high schools, Michael E. Daniel
Volume One covers creation original sin Christ faith grace and eternal life; Volume Two the Mass seven sacraments indulgences and sacramentals; Volume Three God Christianity and the Church; and Volume Four sin virtue and conscience.
75 - Jul 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul, two pillars of the Church
A further parallel comes to mind still on the theme of brothers: whereas the first biblical pair of brothers demonstrate the effects of sin as Cain kills Abel yet Peter and Paul much as they differ from one another in human terms and notwithstanding the conflicts that arose in their relationship illustrate a new way of being brothers lived according to the Gospel an authentic way made possible by the grace of Christs Gospel working within them.
76 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Vision of Heaven?, Peter Harris
souls being transformed into a state of Grace and then they enter a Heaven.
77 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News New confessional attracts penitents A Connecticut priest says a new confessional installed at his parish stands as a visible sign of Gods grace and has increased churchgoers reception of the sacrament.
78 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
He went back to third class and after giving a general absolution began to lead passengers in the beautiful Rosary prayer: Hail Mary Full of Grace the Lord is with thee!
79 - Jun 2013 - Farcical history: the 'Gospel of Jesus' wife', Frank Mobbs
We receive conception from the grace which is in one another.
80 - May 2013 - Letters: What is Heaven?, Winsome De Jong
It is a time when the human beings pass beyond their earthly lives and their souls are transformed into a state of grace.
81 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
With great power the Apostles continued to testify to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and much Grace was upon them all (Acts 4:32-33).
82 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
I believe the answer to Sheens ability to present subject matter on topics such as Hell Purgatory birth prevention marriage problems sin and penance death and judgement the Mother of Jesus sanctifying grace original sin and angels can be found in his great holiness and the means by which he kept in touch with the will of God namely through the daily Holy Hour that he made for the duration of his priesthood.
83 - Mar 2013 - Reflection: Icon for the Year of Grace: 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus', Anne Lastman
In this Year of Grace we are invited by the Australian Bishops to make a pilgrimage into the inner sanctum of our being a journey of faith keeping before our eyes an icon or beacon into the inner sanctum the face of Jesus.
84 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
Grace indeed!
85 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He lost contact with his family for nearly three decades but by Gods grace was restored to them before his death.
86 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
The push to ordain women priests and bishops has dealt a coup de grace to such assertions.
87 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
For 100 years this cathedral has been as a beating heart in the Churchs mission: the faithful streaming into Sunday Mass to be filled and empowered by the love and grace of God only to be sent forth an hour later to carry the Gospel to the surrounding world just as blood is sent forth from the heart to carry oxygen to the entire body.
88 - Feb 2013 - Letters: Shared faith?, John Frey
For our Muslim brothers and sisters that by the bodily discipline of fasting and the spiritual devotion of their hearts they find grace and favour in Gods eyes ( Catholic Weekly 16 December 2012).
89 - Feb 2013 - Grace: Indulgences: relics of the past or still Church teaching?, John Young
This includes the power to dispense graces gained by Jesus when he suffered and died for our salvation and one way in which this power of the keys is exercised is in the granting of indulgences.
90 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
She founded a home schooling curriculum called Mother of Divine Grace and is brilliant in the ways of classical education.
91 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
Sacraments theme This fifth iWitness Retreat took as its central theme the Sacraments the great channels of Gods Grace for Christians.
92 - Feb 2013 - Parish Renewal: New springtime for Catholic faith at St Mary's, South Brisbane, Jenny Davies
In the Year of Grace on the Feast of the Holy Rosary 7 October 2012 three Capuchin Friars were introduced to the congregation at St Marys parish South Brisbane by Fr Ken Howell Administrator of the Cathedral of St Stephen and St Marys parish.
93 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Thomas M. Kalotas
If our bishops were to strongly encourage or even mandate such action at our Sunday Masses then we would all be in a better position to receive the grace strength and courage to fight this evil tooth and nail.
94 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
In his address the Holy Father affirmed that the council was a time of great grace a continuity with the past and with truths which are unchanging even though there were changes in many practices such as in parts of the Mass.
95 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
As St Paul tells us (Romans 12:6) We have different gifts according to the grace given us.
96 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
May I address you on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church with apostolic greeting: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thess 1:2).
97 - Nov 2012 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: God's infinite mercy for the repentant, Anne Lastman
This person is now marked with a sign of grace and protection (Gen 4:15) and we know that forgiveness and those forgiven are called to mediate for and on behalf of those who still remain in darkness (Lk 22:32-33).
98 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
I think conversion depends on the Holy Spirit on Gods grace.
99 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of love received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and joy.
100 - Oct 2012 - Books: Manual of Minor Exorcisms, Prayers for those in Spiritual Affliction, Porteous, Fr Nicholas Dillon
In the various prayers and litanies for protection and deliverance which Bishop Porteous has compiled the faithful will find a sure source of spiritual comfort and a means for obtaining Gods grace and protection.
101 - Oct 2012 - Liturgical Music: Vatican II: Singing nourishes faith ... raises minds to God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
As the Second Vatican Council teaches when the Church sings the faith of those taking part is nourished and their minds are raised to God so that they may offer him their spiritual homage and receive his grace more abundantly ( Sacrosanctum Concilium 33).
102 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
The grace of God.
103 - Sep 2012 - Noted UK doctor slams BBC program's anti-Catholic bias, Robert Walley
The only saving grace for the sad proceedings came from Dr Ideh from Nigeria a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who knew what she was talking about.
104 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Nevertheless we must call people to a higher vision despite human weakness and point to the Blessed Eucharist as the source of strength and grace and the very presence of the healing Lord within the life of the family.
105 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
On Pentecost Sunday 2012 the Catholic Bishops of Australia officially invited all members of the Church to participate in a Year of Grace with a theme best described as Starting afresh from Christ.
106 - Jul 2012 - Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde, Paul MacLeod
Even the current Year of Grace in Australia has as a theme Contemplate the face of Christ.
107 - Jul 2012 - Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad, Angela Schumann
Divine grace Glenn Bolas a former Baptist sets the record straight regarding the Catholic teaching on Grace.
108 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Communion reception, Ken Bayliss
The first of the Saturday weekly Vigil Masses was celebrated on 12 May with the goal of exemplifying sacredness in continuity and was a fitting prelude to Pentecost Sunday and the start of the Year of Grace.
109 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
There are many stories of the working of Gods grace in the receptive souls of ardent young Catholics as a result of their year with the National Evangelisation Teams.
110 - May 2012 - Letters: Genuflection, John Frey
Let us pray that the Lord will change our mindset and give us the heart that allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace.
111 - May 2012 - Letters: Year of Grace, Ken Bayliss
The Australian Catholic bishops in response to the request of the Holy Father have proclaimed a Year of Grace for the Church in Australia to begin on Pentecost Sunday 27 May 2012 (the birthday of the Church).
112 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
So it is a grace from God and a sign of hope for us.
113 - Apr 2012 - Reflection: Christ's Resurrection: the central truth of our faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Through the Sacrament of Baptism the Christian has already died with Christ sacramentally in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christs grace physical death completes this dying with Christ; and so is completed our incorporation into him in his redeeming act.
114 - Apr 2012 - Art: Icons: linking the spiritual and material, Aidan Hart
Christs material garment of linen participated in divine grace by association with His divine body.
115 - Mar 2012 - Books: LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT, by Thomas Howard, Michael Daniel
While each conversion is a unique testament to the workings of Gods grace the reasons as to why he entered the Church reflect those of many converts including this reviewer.
116 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
The Churchs great spiritual awakenings throughout history STREAMS OF GRACE by Bishop Julian Porteous (ConnorCourt 2011 250pp $29.
117 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
By the grace of God and with a lot of hard labour the shipping container was loaded over two days by volunteers and sailed for Nigeria on 18 November.
118 - Mar 2012 - John Henry Newman on the Immaculate Conception, John Henry Newman
We as the children of Adam are heirs to the consequences of his sin and have forfeited in him that spiritual robe of grace and holiness which he had given him by his Creator at the time that he was made.
119 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
We also find here the deeper understanding of Mary as the Angel greeted her full of grace most highly favoured by God kekaritomene.
120 - Mar 2012 - Fulton Sheen Cause: progress report, Msgr Stanley Deptula
Through the Grace of God and the generosity of our donors we have been able to accomplish quite a bit.
121 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
Last October the Australian Catholic Bishops proclaimed a Year of Grace for the Church in Australia to begin on Pentecost Sunday 2012 (27 May).
122 - Mar 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the Annunciation and Mary's virginity, Pope Benedict XVI
Marys yes means both motherhood and virginity and her wish that her everything be for the glory of God and that the Son who will be born to Her may be a gift of grace for all.
123 - Feb 2012 - Books: THE RETURN OF MODERNISM:The Second Wave Revisited, by Dr J.N. Santamaria, David Perrin
Ministerial priesthood and the sacraments are instrumental causes of Grace.
124 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
Gods grace she said can bring unforeseen results out of humble work.
125 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The season of Advent provides a unique occasion each year to reflect upon the coming of Christ in our lives by the grace of the story of Christmas.
126 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
The martyrs of the early Church died for their faith in that God who was revealed in Jesus Christ and for this very reason they also died for freedom of conscience and the freedom to profess ones own faith - a profession that no state can impose but which instead can only be claimed with Gods grace in freedom of conscience.
127 - Dec 2011 - Ad Limina Visit: Australia's Bishops reaffirm their unity with Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
Make every effort to help catechists and musicians in their respective preparations to render the celebration of the Roman Rite in your Dioceses a moment of greater grace and beauty worthy of the Lord and spiritually enriching for everyone.
128 - Nov 2011 - Saints: G.K. Chesterton: Is there a case for his canonisation?, Karl Schmude
He was not conspicuously devout nor was he fortified by the sacramental graces of the Church for most of his life only formally becoming a Catholic in 1922 14 years before his death.
129 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The Colleges exist by reason of Gods grace and the ongoing signs of His Providence are such that there seems little doubt this school is indeed in line with His will.
130 - Oct 2011 - Planetary spirituality: what next!, Frank Mobbs
How about my admiration for a swimmer in the Olympic Games the precision and force of his strokes his timing his grace in execution have we here a spirituality for the sporting man?
131 - Sep 2011 - Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism, Fr Glen Tattersall
Vatican IIs theological status debated in a new book THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism Moyra Doorly amp; Aidan Nichols OP Foreword by Cardinal George Pell (Freedom Publishing and Gracewing 2011 97pp $19.
132 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Book of Genesis, Frank Mobbs
Sanctifying grace was lost by the sin of the first humans as were real supernatural and preternatural gifts from God.
133 - Sep 2011 - Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis, Michael Gilchrist
For Bishop Magee who resigned in 2010 after a tribunal found he had blatantly failed to implement church regulations on the abuse of children it was a spectacular fall from grace.
134 - Aug 2011 - Books: PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS: Catholic women come home to the Church, ed. Donna Steichen, Michael Daniel
Given what were often negative experiences in the Church and the problems within the Church that in some cases were the catalyst for lapsing away it is a testament to the power of Gods grace that these women not only returned to the faith but have themselves become staunch defenders and champions of it.
135 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
These afflictions flowed from their fall from Gods grace.
136 - Aug 2011 - Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God', Bishop James Conley
He has pointed out serious theological difficulties with our current translations including problems related to ecclesiology and the theology of grace.
137 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel
In reflecting on her baptism in the context of her conversion she argues that Gods grace which she received then was integral to her conversion.
138 - Jul 2011 - Whatever happened to the virtue of obedience?, Bishop Julian Porteous
Give me only your love and your grace and I am rich enough and ask for nothing more.
139 - Jul 2011 - Poetry: A Prayer for Mothers, Cardinal Mindszenty
The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.
140 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
It permits me to live intensely the grace of the Eucharist which makes the Church and which makes the Church grow.
141 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
Mary - so close to him full of grace - followed him faithfully.
142 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
We should as his priests be at the epicentre of unity united in belief and in grace.
143 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
The certainty it gives us is a gift of grace.
144 - Mar 2011 - iWitness 2010: an unforgettable retreat for young Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
The topics covered included: The Real Jesus and His Church (Bishop Tim Costelloe); The Devil Twists and Turns in 2010 (Bishop Julian Porteous); The Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Anna Krohn); Grace and the Sacraments (Robert Haddad); Understanding the Mass and its new Translation (Cardinal George Pell); and a question and answer session with Rocky Mimmo Dr Michael Casey and Katrina Lee.
145 - Mar 2011 - Nazareth: Patriarch Fouad of Jerusalem: Annunciation homily, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
Christ came to Nazareth and the other cities and blessed us and therefore we must be worthy of this blessing and convey the True Faith to the younger generations to follow the Christ who came with Mary and Joseph to Nazareth and was obedient to them when growing in age wisdom and grace.
146 - Dec 2010 - Reflection: Messiah: the one anointed by God to reconcile sinners, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
And from his fullness as head of redeemed humanity we have received grace upon grace (John.
147 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
Steve and his friends prayed that the Lord would provide full access to Randwick and for the Vigil and Mass to be a time of extraordinary grace.
148 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The preface of todays Mass helps us understand our mission and the meaning of the eternal Kingdom of Our Sovereign Lord Jesus Christ: A kingdom of truth and life a kingdom of holiness and grace a kingdom of justice love and peace.
149 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
Now is the time to seize this moment of grace!
150 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Catholic funerals, George Simpson
It should be noted that His Grace is not introducing anything new but is upholding existing regulations which unfortunately have been widely neglected throughout the archdiocese.
151 - Nov 2010 - Vocations: Priestly and religious vocations upsurge in the US, Tim Drake
Dominican tradition Our Dominican tradition is constituted by a unique convergence of qualities: Optimism about the rationality and fundamental goodness of the natural order; an abiding certitude that divine grace and mercy are sheer gifts unmerited and otherwise unattainable; a healthy realism about the peril of the human condition apart from this grace and mercy; a determination to maintain a Gods-eye-view of everything that exists and everything that happens.
152 - Nov 2010 - Homily: Feast of All Saints: Benedict XVI's homily, Pope Benedict XVI
Let us lift in our hearts the desire to always unite ourselves to the family of the saints of which we already have the grace to be a part.
153 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
Gods grace and glory are at work in the sacraments usually through the actions of the priest which generate grace or spiritual energy through the passion of Christ.
154 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
With the assurance of grace both husband and wife are given the strength to renounce their own personal goals for the unity of the marriage.
155 - Oct 2010 - New Missal: Why we need the new translation of the Mass, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
When we examine the specific content of the ICEL collects we currently use we find a more serious result of ruthless paraphrase and prcis the virtual elimination of a key Christian word grace.
156 - Sep 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of sin: a cornerstone of Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The late Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical Dominum et Vivificatem states: Conversion requires convincing of sin: it includes the interior judgement of conscience and this being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in mans inmost being becomes at the same time the start of a new grant of grace and of love: Receive the Holy Spirit.
157 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Charismatic Renewal similarly sees itself as not so much a movement as a grace for the Church.
158 - Aug 2010 - Vocations: Mother Dolores Hart OSB: from Hollywood to convent, Michael Gilchrist
At the time she was seen as a likely successor to Grace Kelly who had left Hollywood to become a princess in Monaco.
159 - Aug 2010 - Justice: A Queensland Year 12 student: the injustice of abortion
The movie Amazing Grace portrayed the life of William Wilberforce (1759-1833) who lobbied the English parliament for 20 years to stop the trafficking of slaves.
160 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
However now it was crunch time and a primary school memory surfaced - or was it the laser-beam of divine grace or his mothers prayers?
161 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
He continued: To believe consists above all in abandoning oneself to this God who knows and loves us personally accepting the truth that he revealed in Jesus Christ with the attitude that leads us to trust in grace.
162 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Theological words that have been part of the Churchs language of faith such as conscience sin grace words that refer to an objective basis for morality are not part of our secular culture.
163 - Jul 2010 - New apologetics for the new evangelisation
Cardinal Avery Dulles in preparation for a new publication of his Testimony to Grace the story of his conversion to Catholicism drafted a new Afterword called Reflections on a Theological Journey.
164 - Jul 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What we can know about heaven from Scripture and the Church, John Young
But that destiny can only be attained through the possession of sanctifying grace which elevates the soul to a new level of being making us children of God by a supernatural sharing in his divine life.
165 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
In his excellent Introduction to Test Everything Cardinal Francis Stafford former Archbishop of Denver Colorado and one of Americas outstanding bishops of the past few decades provides a clear overview of one the books central messages that Christianity involves tough love and that there is no such thing as cheap grace.
166 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
However prior to him St Irenaeus had already formulated a truth which I would like to recall here: Where the Church is there also is Gods Spirit; where Gods Spirit is there is the Church and every grace; and the Spirit is the truth; to distance oneself from the Church is to reject the Spirit and thus exclude oneself from life (Adversus Haereses III 24 1).
167 - Jun 2010 - Missal: New Mass translation: Archbishop Hart interview, Archbishop Denis Hart
Similarly you will be familiar with the prayer which asks that Gods grace may go before us and continue with us in whatever we do.
168 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
She is human but she is also perfect and full of grace a reflection of the perfect life Christ offers us.
169 - Apr 2010 - Reflection: The Resurrection: cornerstone of the Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The peace he wished them is that grace-filled assurance of a loving relationship with the Lord and with one another.
170 - Apr 2010 - Real Presence: Eucharistic Adoration: ultimate weapon of spiritual warfare, Fr Martin Durham
St Paul lists them in Eph 6:10ff: Put on the whole armour of God: the whole truth the breastplate of righteousness (sanctifying grace) the shield of faith the helmet of salvation (hope) and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
171 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
It is not public opinion polls or legal advice that our shepherds need it is divine grace from Holy Orders and their personal commitment to place the common good of the diocese before all else.
172 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Faith alone, Frank Mobbs (Dr)
Therein the Son of God teaches that we are saved by our choices as well as by Gods assistance or grace.
173 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Evil laws, Ken Bayliss
While His Grace cant unfortunately protect all public hospitals in Victoria he has resolutely refused to allow such evil laws to enter any of his Catholic hospitals.
174 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks
Throughout the week personal prayer was a great source of strength and grace.
175 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young
It insists that the Catholic Church has been endowed with all divinely revealed truth and with all means of grace (n.
176 - Mar 2010 - Archbishop Saldanha reports from Pakistan, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha
A postscript to Babette Francis article in the February issue of AD2000 about present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan is the following extract from a letter written at Christmas 2009 by His Grace Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore Pakistan.
177 - Mar 2010 - Annunciation: Benedict XVI: Mary's acceptance of the Divine Word
Everything in the Church every institution and ministry including that of Peter and his successors is included under the Virgins mantle within the grace-filled horizon of her yes to Gods will.
178 - Feb 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of death: Christ's message of hope and consolation, Andrew Kania
Christ died but this event by Gods grace meant that His death became a bridge for us to cross a bridge between two forms of living rather than a wall to end all hope.
179 - Feb 2010 - St Mary Mackillop: Canonisation: about holiness, not miracles, Fr Paul Gardiner SJ
Later on the faithful saw that a violent death was not the only evidence of the victory of Gods grace and the cult of other holy men and women joined that of the martyrs.
180 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
A sacrament is a visible sign instituted by Christ which by His will and power conveys to those who receive it grace that is a created share in the very life and love of God Himself.
181 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
Salvation In his 1961 book The Wide World My Parish Congar commented that one does not need to be a Catholic in order to achieve sanctity: While the Church is the sacrament of the reality the presence the clear promise of salvation others can find in life an intimation of grace an incipient salvation.
182 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The Catechism Compendium (206) informs us: Dying in Christ Jesus means to die in the state of Gods grace without any mortal sin.
183 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
The collected writings of one of todays UK Catholic heroes THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary by John Haldane (Gracewing 2008 215pp $30.
184 - Nov 2009 - Foundations of Faith: 'O happy fault': the Christian doctrine of original sin, Noel Roberts
Christians he believed had the added help of grace which Pelagius understood as the example and motivation of Christ.
185 - Oct 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
All agree it was a time of grace for participants and onlookers.
186 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Liturgy reform, Paul Martin
The reservation of the Eucharist is a special grace given to the Catholic (and some other Christian) Churches.
187 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
The role of King is witnessed by the action of a bishop when a male having been tried and tested by the Church is presented to receive the Sacrament of Holy Order together with the special grace of the Holy Spirit administered by the Bishop in his role of Old Testament King.
188 - Sep 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
All agree it was a time of grace for participants and onlookers.
189 - Sep 2009 - Books: DEIFICATION AND GRACE, by Daniel Keating, Br Barry Coldrey
DEIFICATION AND GRACE by Daniel Keating (Sapientia Press Ave Maria University Florida 2007 142pp $25.
190 - Sep 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Sola Fide (by Faith Alone): is this sufficient for salvation?, Frank Mobbs
The Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord of the Lutheran Churches dated 1571 - a creed of Protestants - says: Indeed neither contrition nor love nor any other virtue but faith alone is the means by which we can reach forth and obtain the grace of God the merit of Christ and the remission of sin.
191 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
I was drawn towards the priesthood not only because of the priests role in the Church but because of the important contribution which priests make to our world through serving our society and helping to make our communities with the grace of God into a more perfect reflection of the Heavenly Kingdom.
192 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
By the grace of God and the financial help of a good friend I was recently able to attend the US National and International Courage and EnCourage Conference held in Philadelphia from 9-12 July.
193 - Aug 2009 - Reflection: Mary in God's plan of salvation, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
According to that plan every disciple is now bound to Mary in the order of grace.
194 - Aug 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
All agree it was a time of grace for participants and onlookers.
195 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
According to Aquinas angels exist within a hierarchy according to their grace nature and role in relation to God and His creation.
196 - Jul 2009 - Books: Books available from AD Books and Freedom Publishing
All agree it was a time of grace for participants and onlookers.
197 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
They laugh in the face of it because they know they are so blessed with Christs gifts with his truth and his grace.
198 - Jun 2009 - Reflection: Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit for today, Fr Dennis W Byrnes
As the Statement of Conclusions put it: This common labour is before all else a co-operation with the Grace of the Holy Spirit each one praying for the wisdom always to give first consideration to the honour of God and the salvation of souls and by begging for the strength needed for the task of building up the Body of Christ so that all efforts may bear abundant fruit for the mission of the Church in Australia and beyond (Statement of Conclusions Synod of Bishops and Roman Curia November 1998).
199 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June
All agree it was a time of grace for participants and onlookers.
200 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
His Grace Lawrence Saldanha the Catholic Archbishop of Lahore is a distant cousin.
201 - May 2009 - Letters: Simple faith, Alan Barron
; Did you do enough good works to merit grace?
202 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel
As for whether I regret not discovering the Church sooner the simple answer is that in the mystery of grace I discovered and entered the Church at the right time for me.
203 - May 2009 - Editorial: The Virgin Mary's key role in our redemption, Michael Gilchrist
In Lukes account Mary is saluted by the angel Gabriel as full of grace and over the centuries the Church has taken this as meaning Mary was preserved from the moment of her conception from the stain of original sin.
204 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son as the most holy Mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ; she is honoured correctly by a special cult in the Church.
205 - Feb 2009 - Poetry: Renée, Will Elsin
This face this face the angels pause In their tracks becalmed perhaps And all because They see the perfection of the grace Of Him who truly conceived a face So lovely its evanescent gaze Sometimes on given summer days Outshines even their angelic rays.
206 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
In the sacrament of Marriage Christian parents receive sacramental grace to preserve and foster the presence of the Holy Spirit between them.
207 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
Faith is a living bold trust in Gods grace so certain of Gods favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it .
208 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
Let us ask the Lord to grant us the grace of looking upon the crib with the simplicity of the shepherds so as to receive the joy with which they returned home (cf.
209 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
All his inclinations and no doubt the prompting of grace directed him towards the Anglo-Catholic wing of that Church.
210 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
His recent books include The Church and the World (Gracewing) and Seeking Meaning and Making Sense (Imprint-Academic).
211 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
If that is true in human relationships then it is central to the grace relationship our baptismal union with Christ and our penitential and Eucharistic life in Christ.
212 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
Anima reminds each woman of her God-given dignity and mystery and challenges her to develop her true vocation and fulfilment by hosting what we hope are both graceful and Grace-filled encounters with other women.
213 - Oct 2008 - WYDSYD08: Thomas More Centre Youth follow up World Youth Day, Bridget Spinks
The Holy Spirit has evidently been pouring His grace upon young Australians inspiring them to follow their vocation and to hear His call to bring Christ into the public square.
214 - Oct 2008 - Timor L'Este: Fly Away to Heaven: East Timor and World Youth Day, Sister Terezinha
Our last 10 days here in Albury were grace-filled and we will forever be thankful to one big-hearted man in the person of Fr Fowles.
215 - Oct 2008 - Editorial: Sesquicentenary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Peter Westmore
It is one of the greatest centres of Catholic pilgrimage in the world a constant source of grace to those who believe and clear proof that Jesus and his Blessed Mother care for every one of us.
216 - Sep 2008 - Reflection: Archbishop Burke of St Louis: the responsibilities of a bishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke
Recalling the grace of the sacrament of Holy Orders at work in the Apostles and in the first missionaries to our region and witnessing the conferral of the grace in the ordination of our new bishop let us pray for the new evangelisation of his diocese that the faithful under the care and with the guidance of their shepherd may teach celebrate and live our Catholic faith with new enthusiasm and new energy with the enthusiasm and the energy of the first disciples and of the first Catholics who established the Church in what is now the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau.
217 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
Sacraments according to the Catechism are outward signs instituted by Jesus Christ to give grace.
218 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In his 1989 essay The Bodys Grace Dr Williams argued that the Anglican Churchs acceptance of contraception meant that it acknowledged the validity of non-procreative sex.
219 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: A reflection on WYD, Tim Cannon
Yes the streets were awash with Catholics and with grace in a manner that few Australians will have the chance to experience again.
220 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
For secular cynical Sydney awash with 300000 pilgrims - laity priests and religious in their distinctive attire - it was like being flooded with the joy and grace of the Christmas season - on steroids!
221 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Anne Lastman's Remarkable book 'Redeeming Grief', Fr Raymond Wells
Anne too although she doesnt share the power to dispense grace and forgiveness can be called a wounded healer as she shows others (over 1000) that forgiveness is available and real because she has been there knows their pain and knows the embrace and forgiveness of a loving and merciful Jesus.
222 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton
Key components While no one can put constraints on the working of grace it is not by accident that young people encounter Christ at World Youth Day.
223 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Ratzinger was particularly critical of the sharp distinction made between nature and grace faith and reason.
224 - May 2008 - Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP, Tim Cannon
It is not for the perfection of the polity that the Church exists but for the perfection of souls by the Grace of God.
225 - May 2008 - Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson, Philip Trower
NEWMANS APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson (Gracewing 2007 176pp $30.
226 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
For we live at a time when the grace of being a woman has never been more ungratefully spurned not just by the unthinking sons of Adam but also by the foolish daughters of Eve.
227 - Apr 2008 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain, by Anne Lastman, Charles Francis
It can pray intercede rebuke embrace and heal but most of all it can dispense grace and forgiveness.
228 - Mar 2008 - DVD: NO TURNING BACK: Confessions of a Catholic priest, by Fr D. Calloway, Fr Martin Durham
Both of you are kindred souls - the stories of your conversions by the grace of God are so much alike.
229 - Mar 2008 - Books: SEARCHING FOR AND MAINTAINING PEACE, by Father Jacques Philippe, Tim Cannon
Because then the heart allows itself to be driven by the Holy Spirit and God is able to do more with it by His grace than the heart could do by its own efforts.
230 - Feb 2008 - Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival, Br Barry Coldrey
Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son as the most holy Mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ; she is honoured correctly by a special cult in the Church (No.
231 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
But once we reduce those words truth life holiness grace justice love and peace to abstractions or nice sentiments then something is missing.
232 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
Grace does not destroy nature; it perfects it Eacute; Our human nature and our supernatural destiny go together; they are intertwined and complementary.
233 - Dec 2007 - Books: JESUS, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH by Pope Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon
For the Catholics to participate fully in the rich life of grace to which they are called Benedict has highlighted the preliminary need to become acquainted - perhaps re- acquainted - with both Jesus Christ and His Church.
234 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Unbaptised infants, Lawrence R. Hurley
The Commissions document is said to have sparked a lot of controversy but is trying to say what the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1260 1261 1283) has already said: that we have a right to hope that God will find a way to offer the grace of Christ to such infants and trying to provide a theological rationale for what has already been proposed in several magisterial documents since the Council.
235 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Far-sightedness of Father Purcell, Fr Brian Harrison OS
But on coming to realise that without such an authority there is no credible divine revelation at all I was given the grace to accept in faith the Roman Catholic Churchs claim to speak with that authority.
236 - Dec 2007 - Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour, John Haldane
The result of this situation is that Catholics know little about the history of their faith its distinctive content its theological philosophical literary and artistic products its traditions of spirituality the nature and modes of grace the gravity of sin and so on.
237 - Nov 2007 - Music: Cherished Hymns of the Forefathers - 2DVD and CD set, Peter Donald
Amazing Grace Abide With Me How Great Thou Art O God Our Help In Ages Past and Nearer My God To Thee are included in the selection - all genuine classics of English Christianity.
238 - Nov 2007 - Poetry: A poem on the priesthood - Among the Apostles, John O'Neill
Grace indeed!
239 - Oct 2007 - Truth: And the Light shines in the darkness: the meaning of true ecumenism, Andrew Kania
Congar developing from this theme in The Wide World My Parish of 1961 made the comment that one does not need to be a Catholic in order to achieve sanctity: While the Church is the sacrament of the reality the presence the clear promise of salvation others can find in life an intimation of grace an incipient salvation.
240 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Creighton University officials said they invited Anne Lamott to speak before her book Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith was published in March 2007.
241 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
Only those who have spent years of their life estranged from God can know what a consolation it is to be once again back in the Church living the life of grace.
242 - Aug 2007 - Reflection: The Assumption: how the Christian arts honour the Virgin Mary
Sweet unto God and the sweetness is grace; The breath of it bathes the great heaven above In grace that is charity grace that is love.
243 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Stem cell 'debate', Chris Hilder
It would be hypocritical for these politicians to seek communion and I suspect communion would be of no benefit to them because grace requires cooperation of the will not hubris and self-righteousness.
244 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
It robs us of sanctifying grace separates us from the vision of God and from the goodness of others and leaves us spiritually empty.
245 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
These communities can act as instruments of salvation because of their partial participation in that fullness of grace and of truth which has been entrusted to the Catholic Church.
246 - Aug 2007 - Events: LATIN MASS CELEBRATIONS - Melbourne and Sydney
Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Throne will be celebrated in the traditional Latin rite (1962 Missal) by His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne on Saturday 25 August at 10.
247 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Take the initiative in being available to them and they will come to you - drawn by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
248 - Jul 2007 - Why truth and charity are inseparable, Alice von Hildebrand
Those who through Gods grace would gladly give their lives for the one true Church ardently desire that all men - without exception - would accept Christ as God and the Catholic Church as his Bride.
249 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
To be sure salvation by grace was there.
250 - Jun 2007 - Books: EDITH STEIN, WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals, by Joanne Mosley, Tim Cannon
EDITH STEIN WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals by Joanne Mosley (Gracewing 2004 162pp $25.
251 - Jun 2007 - Books: IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST: Writings in the Western Tradition, by Lucy Beckett, Francis Phillips
For Augustine in incomparable prose vividly describes the tension between the city of God and the civitas terrena and the drama of mans existence caught between the two: his need for grace his weakness his longing for transcendence and his struggles to overcome himself.
252 - Jun 2007 - Verbicide: 'Happy' or 'Blessed'? How faith can be drained of meaning, Arthur Ballingall
(3) Dependent on Gods grace and our choice neither chance nor fortune.
253 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In one lifetime these people accomplish with Gods grace what would take ten lifetimes for most other people.
254 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
Simple explanations To counteract this growing indifference towards our greatest source of grace it may be a better approach for teachers to replace much of the time spent in practice before school Masses with simple explanations of the meaning of the Mass and by drawing attention to the symbolism of certain actions.
255 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools
We need better Catholic homes more than we need better Catholic schools - homes where there is an atmosphere of fair discipline some mortification where the Rosary is recited where Grace before meals is said where there is spiritual discussion where the whole family attends Sunday Mass together each week and where mother and father have complementary rather than competing roles.
256 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
The Shrine was subsequently chosen for Australia Unites in Prayer gatherings to bring the ministry of Gods love and mercy to those in need of healing grace and miracles.
257 - Mar 2007 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity - source of true Christian unity, Fr John O'Neill
The plague that has accompanied the Church founded by Christ since the day he founded it can be described as the ridiculous idea and false conviction that man can decide what God is like who Christ is and what his revelation regarding truth morals and life (grace) contains.
258 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Catholic dolls, Anne Cramer
We have six at present: Mother Teresa Saint Th rse Pope John Paul II The Child Jesus Our Lady of Guadalupe and Mary Our Lady of Grace.
259 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
It is not just that the language of the spiritual has been reduced to the physical with the earth referred to as sacred and holy while omitting the Creator who made it and water described as literally life giving with no reference to the life of grace without which the soul cannot live.
260 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism
He chose to make the automatic transmission of grace conditional on Adam remaining faithful but Adam sinned.
261 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
It reiterates Church teaching that with few exceptions only Catholics may receive Communion at a Catholic Mass and that Catholics should refrain from the sacrament when they are not in a state of grace because of mortal sin.
262 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Faith and reason, Peter D. Howard
Despite the redemption Christ knew that our fallen nature needs Gods special help (grace) to do His Will - hence the seven sacraments the priesthood the Eucharistic sacrifice with His Body and Blood and the teaching authority all instituted by Him for we have to make up for what is lacking in Christs afflictions for His body which is the Church (Col.
263 - Oct 2006 - Books: ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux, Jacinta Cummins
Rapid change is not totally impossible especially when granted the grace of God but old habits tend to die hard and temptation is always there.
264 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Homosexuality, Daphne Preston
Would readers join with me in saying an Our Father and a Hail Mary daily for a person in danger of committing a homosexual act so that the Lord will grant the grace necessary for the person not to succumb to temptation and sin grievously.
265 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Pessimistic view, Francis Vrijmoed
This must be the reason why the Compendium of the Catechism article 262 states that all those who even without knowing Christ and the Church still (under the impulse of grace) sincerely seek God and strive to do his will can also be saved through a Baptism of desire.
266 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, Frances McEniery
The fact that many Saints have testified to visions of very young children detained in Purgatory and even Hell supports the need for early baptism and the strengthening and transforming effects of Grace and the gifts of the Holy Spirit thus conferred on a childs soul.
267 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
With Gods grace the support of our many generous friends and benefactors and with the positive and enthusiastic response to the program of our first students strong foundations have been laid in this first year for what will we hope grow into the premier institution of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
268 - Sep 2006 - Reflection: Cardinal Arinze on the need for Eucharistic reverence, Cardinal Francis Arinze
The most important reverent attitude is that the communicant be in a state of grace.
269 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
It also heightens an awareness that while suffering is unavoidable it can strengthen our relationship with God and foster humility through an appreciation that it is only through the grace of God in our fragility that we can withstand and even transcend our sufferings.
270 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
A formula for Justification or salvation which asserted the primacy of faith and Gods grace but included the role of good works was decreed in 1547 followed by an uncompromising assertion on the Eucharist in 1551 of transubstantiation and the sufficiency of one species.
271 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
The prayer life of the College includes sung grace before meals the recitation of the Rosary and Benediction twice a week.
272 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (Book 3: Chapter 1: Article 6) has a beautiful section on conscience quoting Cardinal Newman: Conscience is a messenger of him who both in nature and in grace speaks to us behind a veil and teaches and rules us by his representatives.
273 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
Prior to baptism the baby is without the divine life of grace in its soul.
274 - Aug 2006 - Books: Land of Carmel, by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Jacinta Cummins
LAND OF CARMEL by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard (Gracewing 1999 174pp $22.
275 - Jul 2006 - Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read, Francis Phillips
His capacity to resist the subtle pressures of his milieu began early; he was unhappy at Ampleforth in the 1950s sensing that good manners had replaced the need for grace.
276 - Jul 2006 - US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy
But that happens by the grace of Christ and by our fidelity in the celebration of the Holy Mass or one of the sacraments or any of the sacred rites we may be celebrating.
277 - Jun 2006 - Books: Letters to a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Daniel
LETTERS TO A YOUNG CATHOLIC by George Weigel (Leominster: Gracewing 2004 240pp $24.
278 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
It is fitting he said that we recall our own sinfulness and the Grace of our Christ by means of which we have risen from our fall.
279 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
It is not the office which gives grace but Christs presence in the man who bears it.
280 - May 2006 - Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball, Jacinta Cummins
Ball does not make the common mistake of viewing these people with rose coloured glasses but rather uses their weaknesses to show how with prayer sacrifice and the grace of God one can overcome temptation and if one falls that Gods infinite mercy and unconditional love mean He will forgive us.
281 - May 2006 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: love and truth are inseparable
Where the Church is there is the Spirit of God and where the Spirit is there is the Church and all grace he said quoting the words of St Irenaeus.
282 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Eucharist, Jim Howe
Is this not a challenge to us all to step back a while and review our situation in the light and grace of the Eucharist and move forward positively making John Paul IIs New Springtime actually happen first of all in our own small corner of the world?
283 - Mar 2006 - Liturgy: Eucharistic faith: why the Mass needs re-enchanting, Alvin F. Kimel Jr
Beauty The new translation restores the original significance of the text - the miraculous coming of the risen Christ into our personal homes into our bodies hearts and souls in mercy and grace.
284 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
We the members need to be as large-minded as our Mother the Church and draw out of her treasure house things both new and old for new and old both enwrap her truth and grace.
285 - Feb 2006 - Reflection: The hidden treasure of the Holy Mass, St Leonard of Port Maurice
Although the Mass cannot aid us in mortal sin by way of propitiation it however helps us by way of supplication; hence all sinners should hear as many Masses as possible in order to obtain the grace of conversion.
286 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Homilies (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
They are almost apologetic if they refer to grace or soul as if they are being too other-worldly.
287 - Feb 2006 - Letters: All Saints Day (letter), M & L Morrissey
How many Christians have died in grace who are known to God and are themselves only known in Heaven yet we forget to think about them.
288 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Your robust and convinced attachment to the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ your faithfulness to His teaching and your own Catholic practice will always make its impression on your students and be the spark which the grace of God can fan into a flame in their lives.
289 - Dec 2005 - Books: In Memory of Me / Come to Me, My Children, by Christine McCarthy, Michael Gilchrist
Included are the Lords Prayer Hail Mary Acts of Faith Hope and Charity the Apostles Creed grace before and after meals an Act of Contrition prayers before and after Holy Communion and the Confiteor.
290 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
Through Baptism we become a child of God spiritually reborn with a new life - an interior life of divine grace a sharing in the eternal life of God.
291 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
He became one at Ars by being a priest for his flock and gained sanctity over time through much grace and struggle.
292 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
We are conceived in a state deprived of divine grace and while in that condition are incapable of heaven.
293 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
Jesus reveals His Eucharistic face to us as we grow in His grace and love.
294 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
The enormous expansion since then and the purification of Church leadership (imperfect but substantial) were achieved primarily under grace through the lives of celibate sisters brothers and priests.
295 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Contraception, Anne Lastman
The article by His Grace Archbishop Barry J Hickey of Perth (August AD2000) is excellent and clearly shows an overview of the problems which beset society.
296 - Oct 2005 - Juventutem: Young Latin Mass Catholics attend World Youth Day, Fr Glen Tattersall
On Saturday 16 July at St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart celebrated Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Throne in accordance with the Roman liturgical books of 1962.
297 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE PATH OF LIFE: Benedictine Spirituality for Monks and Lay People, Gabrielle Walsh
When offered to God obedience through the grace of the Holy Spirit takes on a spiritual dimension and offers freedom from selfish or internal compulsions and desires.
298 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass, Richard Congram
On 22 May I wrote respectfully to His Grace begging him to reconsider his decision which gave so much pain to many sincere and faithful Catholics.
299 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X, Fr Kevin Robinson
After the death of His Grace Archbishop Lefebvre in 1991 Cardinal Oddi prayed at his tomb and said Thank you Monsignor.
300 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Chavagnes International College is a monument to what the grace of God and a small number of determined parents supported by self- sacrificing devoutly Catholic and talented educators can do.
301 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
We knew that this was one of the most glorious grace-filled days of our lives.
302 - Sep 2005 - Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed, AD2000 Report
Officials of vocation-rich dioceses most frequently attribute success to divine grace given in response to prayer.
303 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
When we have done this we will have removed those obstacles to grace truth and right which have for so long prevented the free flow of Gods grace in His Church.
304 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Catholic Than the Pope, by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere, Fr Glen Tattersal FSSP
This distinction revealed Lefebvre and his followers to be already tending to view the Church as an idea more than an incarnate flesh and blood (yet grace-filled) reality.
305 - Aug 2005 - Poetry: A Heavenly Surprise
With kindly grace St Peter came And ushered me inside.
306 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Lay-led liturgies (letters), M.T. Kennedy
Holy Communion is not essential but desirable providing the person is in a state of grace.
307 - Jul 2005 - Events: St Patrick's Cathedral Latin Mass 16 July
His Grace will also confer the sacrament of Confirmation on candidates presented by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.
308 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
The worshippers if they have a proper disposition are mystically united to God by grace.
309 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
Holy Communion in particular and all the sacraments give us the spiritual energy or grace to enjoy happiness after death.
310 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
This was witnessed to in the imprisoned life of Cardinal Thuan when the grace of the Eucharist sustained him in his faith and the love of his priesthood and family.
311 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove
Disgrace They thought all their birthdays had come at once in early 1917 with the disgrace of Benedicts trusted German chamberlain: Monsignor Rudolf Gerlach accused of being in the Central Powers pay.
312 - Jun 2005 - Mother Teresa's legacy continued at Georgetown University, Peter Reynolds
We are ambitious and with Gods grace we hope to do great things.
313 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
And at the end of his first homily as Pope during the Mass with the Cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel on 20 April he said: I consider this a grace obtained for me by my venerated predecessor John Paul II.
314 - Mar 2005 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity and the Church: the truth will set you free, Fr John O'Neill
my grace is sufficient for you.
315 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Hail Mary full of grace : Is there any reason why an angel cant greet one of us with Hail full of grace?
316 - Mar 2005 - Moral divisions among the Christian Churches threaten ecumenism, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Those traditional moral positions include the inviolability of all human life born or unborn the dignity of every human person the divine origin of marriage infused by grace through Christ the links between human sexuality and love and procreation and the right of every person disabled or not to a life of dignity and respect.
317 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
And many of the young inspired by grace if not by their elders are gathering to study apologetics and various faith issues under the guidance of people who have a good understanding of how faith and reason work together.
318 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
With the Apostle Paul let us contemplate the fact that in Bethlehem the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all (Titus 2:11).
319 - Dec 2004 - Books: Theology of the Church, by Cardinal Charles Journet, Michael Gilchrist
Some of Cardinal Journets other books included The Meaning of Grace What Is Dogma?
320 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Nihilism (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
May God give us the grace to withstand such attacks now and in the future.
321 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Call to holiness (letter), Mark Calleja
I agree with him that on Gods part there is no preference in granting His grace to those who ask for it.
322 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
This is no time for condemnation but for healing for this moment has proved as much an opportunity of grace as individual confession is in the Sacrament of Penance.
323 - Dec 2004 - English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation?, William Oddie
Much worse when the vicar said the Lord be with you instead of replying and with thy spirit (Cranmers uncomplicated translation of et cum spiritu tuo) we now had to mouth the graceless and pedestrian response and also with you.
324 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ
But if we provide them with a map and a compass for life there is a greater prospect that grace and the gifts of the Spirit will find fertile ground as these fresh graduates try to make sense of their adult lives in a complex world which throws up moral predicaments which many find irresolvable by reference only to a set of prohibitions.
325 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
This not only performs a reality check on their faith it can prove to be a moment of grace Nonetheless the trendy unbalanced accent on celebration - just having fun - in much sacramental catechesis needs to yield place to the imparting of Catholic doctrine and the engendering of true devotion.
326 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
The necessity of a prayerful mind in the priest is therefore obvious so that his oneness in what Christ thinks and wants is achieved by grace daily more and more.
327 - Sep 2004 - Letters: 'King Arthur' an anti-Catholic movie, Fr Brian Harrison
After our heros eyes are opened to the iniquity of Catholicism and all its works he cuts all ties with papal Rome and stays with the religion of Pelagius - St Augustines heretical adversary who denied original sin and claimed that man without grace could save himself by his own efforts.
328 - Aug 2004 - Catholic politicians and informed conscience, Bishop Michael Sheridan
The Church has always held that a Catholic must approach Holy Communion in the state of grace.
329 - Jun 2004 - Letters: The Passion - Suffering (letter), Dr Arnold Jago
Only God himself says Saint Anselm could merit such a grace.
330 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Options (letter), Maryse Usher
Offer Jesus the pain and distress caused by the tumult in union with his mothers sorrows beneath the cross and beg for grace to make the parish priest ask everyone to be silent in church.
331 - May 2004 - Letters: Timely article on reverence (letter), Name and Address Supplied
May you uplift our needs with yours to the one who cares as together we seek the blessings of Gods grace.
332 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
The self-taught art connoisseur graced television screens throughout the 1990s in a number of BBC art series lauded for their accessible and instructive format.
333 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
The Pope says to them: The Christian must be always more open to this gift careful not to waste the time of grace and the time of visitation (cf.
334 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
Ever since I fell from grace by those few words in Clifton Hill against conscription I have been cast out of paradise - the angelic Argus has stood at the gate ever since with flaming sword to bar my entry into the garden and my enjoyment of the forbidden fruit (page 51).
335 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Shortcomings noted in the currently-used Mass translation have included its failure to express mans need for grace to do the good the emptying out of religious terms such as soul and spirit the lessening of the significance of the Mass as a sacrifice and the loss of sacral language which stresses God as a gracious Creator in relation to man as a supplicant creature.
336 - Mar 2004 - Books: Lord, Have Mercy : The Healing Power of Confession, by Scott Hahn, Paul Russell
A declining sense of the reality of sin contributing to a lack of appreciation for the redemptive sacrifice of Christ and the Divine Graces that flow therefrom was not so much a closed circle of a decline in faith as it was a downward spiral that the Australian Bishops said would undermine the whole Christian life.
337 - Mar 2004 - Books: John Henry Newman on the pre-eminent place of the Blessed Virgin in Christianity, Leo Madigan
THE VIRGIN MARY in the Life and Writings of John Henry Newman Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip Boyce (Gracewing Publishing UK) HB 439pp $62.
338 - Mar 2004 - Wisdom from the 17th century: an anonymous nun's prayer
I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of others pains but help me to endure them with patience.
339 - Feb 2004 - Reflection: The ministerial priesthood: 'truly a gift from God', Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
The Catholic tradition is sacramental and full of the conviction that community life and Gods grace are expressed in real actions instituted by Jesus Christ.
340 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Higher calling, Judy O'Reilly
Whichever vocation we are called to Gods grace will always be sufficient to enable us to achieve the status He has planned for us and to gain the salvation He desires for all.
341 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
The birth of the Son of God is the sublime gift the greatest grace for mans benefit that the human mind could ever have imagined.
342 - Dec 2003 - Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid, Fr Peter Murphy
Often when this question is raised it is pitched in such a manner so as to imply that a supposed dichotomy exists between Gods grace in the calling and Churchs law in the arriving; thus resulting in the present shortage of clergy.
343 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
There is no denying Archbishop Mannix was one of the most significant leaders in either Church or State ever to grace Australian public life.
344 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Christ walks with us and sustains us with His grace.
345 - Nov 2003 - Reflection: Cardinal Pell on Pope St Gregory the Great and the duties of bishops, Cardinal George Pell
The bishop aspires to be a conduit an open channel for the light and grace of the Son of God to flow through his works of sacrament word and service.
346 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
It is only because of the great love grace and mercy of God that the Floyds can make it through the valley of the shadow of death.
347 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
Mankind has no power to establish the means by which the love of God (grace) and the Truth of God and the Way to God can be given to man!
348 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
In every era there have been problems in the priesthood; but these problems as serious as they sometimes have been have always been overcome by the grace of God and with fidelity and obedience to Gods will by clergy and laity alike.
349 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
We have a strong vision under the grace of the new evangelisation called for by Pope John Paul II especially in working with young people.
350 - Oct 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Mystical Flora of St Francis de Sales Translated by Clara Mulholland Few among the Churchs writers surpass St Francis de Sales in the skilful use of comparisons drawn from nature to illustrate the operations of grace in spiritual life.
351 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Original Sin (letter), Niall Browne
On the other hand Original Sin when understood as a fall from grace on the part of our remote human ancestors does explain the origin of moral evil in the world and its exclusive presence in the human race.
352 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Student life at Thomas Aquinas includes three Masses a day nightly recitations of the Rosary and grace said before classes and meals.
353 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
It is the fruit of a grace that cannot be merited but may be lawfully desired and prayed for since it is not an extraordinary fervour like a vision but is on the normal path of Christian holiness.
354 - Aug 2003 - Is Pope John Paul II canonising too many saints?, Michael Casanova
However in addition to reflecting reality which by Gods grace is what it is it also responds to the desire expressed by the second Vatican Council .
355 - Jul 2003 - Books: Europe: The Exceptional Case: Parameters Of Faith In The Modern World, Anthony Cappello
EUROPE: THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE: Parameters of Faith in the Modern World by Grace Davie (Darton Longman amp Todd 2002 180pp $29.
356 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
By the grace of God we have not been disappointed.
357 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Misunderstood (letter), Elsie Cunningham
His pantheism is the divinisation of nature by grace in with and through Christ Alpha and Omega source centre and summit radiating His Presence while also drawing all to Himself.
358 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne
His Graces support of Carnivale Christi Brisbane and of the youth groups which hosted the festival - Thomas More Centre and the Newman Catholic Society - was most generous and greatly appreciated.
359 - Jul 2003 - Editorial: The pivotal roles of Saints Peter and Paul, Michael Gilchrist
No human effort - even the most scrupulous observance of law - can create a human good which we can bring to God as reparation for sin and payment for grace.
360 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel (letter), Marie E. Curtin
Plead my cause for what can He refuse thee Get me back His saving grace anew.
361 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon
That was the real presence and grace of God at the very heart or centre of every form of matter that God the Father had originally made for the incarnation of God the Son - through Him in Him and for Him (Col 1:16).
362 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
The Holy Father also underlines the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that anyone conscious of a grave sin must receive the sacrament of Penance before coming to communion and refers to the situation of people seriously and publicly out of line with Church teachings: The judgment of ones state of grace obviously belongs only to the person involved since it is a question of examining ones conscience.
363 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Sacrilege Every conscientious Catholic should know that the reception of the Body and Blood of Christ in Holy Communion requires a soul cleansed from serious sin and in a state of grace.
364 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
In the Hail Queen of Heaven we clearly state that it is to God alone the source of life of grace of love we pay homage on bended knee - a refutation of any accusation that Catholics hold Mary in equality to God.
365 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
Freedom I said this prayer to Mary: Mary my Mother if you know that I cannot be of any more use to the Church grant me the grace to die here in prison and consummate my sacrifice.
366 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
We each have a personal mission - highlighted so beautifully by Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi: Evangelising is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church her deepest identity.
367 - Apr 2003 - Reflection: The road to Emmaus: coming to terms with the hard reality of loss, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
It was understood through Gods grace that recovery was possible.
368 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
Damian Grace a social worker objects to Romes decision to have use of Third Rite of Reconciliation reduced.
369 - Apr 2003 - Books: The First Grace, by Russell Hittinger, Peter Westmore
THE FIRST GRACE by Russell Hittinger (ISI Books 2003 334pp $49.
370 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
By 1880 when banking and shipping magnate William Grace became the first Irish-Catholic mayor of New York people viewed the Irish as a churched people.
371 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
Belief that the Reformation confessions adequately convey the soteriological essence of the scriptural message namely salvation by grace alone through faith in the atoning death and resurrection of the God-man Jesus Christ.
372 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The Catechism of the Catholic Church captures this vision sublimely: By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin Jesus himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the reign of God.
373 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
Grace is the decisive defence.
374 - Mar 2003 - Liturgy: The Mass is the same sacrifice as the Cross, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
These all are derived from the redeeming work of Christ on the Cross the source of all sacramental grace as St Thomas teaches.
375 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
We need to recall that under the grace of God all converts to the Church enrich her because each and every one of them is a unique child of God and brings to the Church particular precious gifts and qualities.
376 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
They know that while God blesses the food we eat when we say grace before meals - and Jesus often did just that - his words of consecration at Mass dont just give us blessed bread.
377 - Feb 2003 - Reflection: Lectio Divina: a way to deepen our prayer life and spirituality, Fr Andrew Wise
Like the Blessed Virgin Mary we gradually become unconditionally receptive and open to the movement and action of Gods Word and Grace within us.
378 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
The remedy is baptismal regeneration and the life of Grace not special exorcisms and healing rites etc.
379 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
They would be dependent on him like branches on a vine and gain supernatural life grace stronger than death as explained in his eucharistic discourse in John 6.
380 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
The priest is a human being first and remains a human being though transformed by grace.
381 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
From the manger our gaze takes in all humanity called to receive the grace of the second Adam yet still heir to the sin of the first Adam.
382 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
On the part of man only a lack of good will can limit it a lack of readiness to be converted and to repent in other words persistence in obstinacy opposing grace and truth especially in the face of the witness of the Cross and resurrection of Christ.
383 - Dec 2002 - New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ, AD2000 Report
His basic identity has to be sought in the character which has been conferred on him by the Sacrament of Holy Orders and from which pastoral grace derives.
384 - Nov 2002 - Books: Bernard Of Clairvaux: Essential Writings, Michael Daniel
On Grace and Free Choice The Steps of Humility and Pride On Loving God Sermons on the Song of Songs and Five Books on Consideration focusing on themes and ideas that Tamburello believes are useful for modern readers.
385 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Media war declared (letter), Fr M. Shadbolt PP
The criminal accusation that was meant as the coup de grace against the Archbishop came out of the media-inspired anti-Pell hatred.
386 - Nov 2002 - Australian apologist Raymond de Souza's successful overseas lecture tour, AD2000 Report
The 1200 conference participants were addressed by such experts on the Faith as Kimberley Hahn Janet Smith Jeff Cavins (EWTN) Fr Joseph Fessio (Ignatius Press) Jason Evert (Catholic Answers) Tim Staples (St Josephs Communications) and Grace McKinnon (Catholic Exchange).
387 - Oct 2002 - Reflection: Devotion to God through the Angelus and Rosary, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
We shall be surprised at the miracles of grace the rosary can bestow.
388 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Dr Garrick Small
Perhaps we should all pray that they be given that grace again before the light goes out in Australia.
389 - Oct 2002 - Liturgy: Vatican control over ICEL tightens, Dr William Oddie
As Fr Harbert put it in the Herald Our current English texts for instance repeatedly over-estimate the value of human effort and undervalue the role of divine grace in human life that is they tend towards the Pelagian heresy.
390 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), J. Dekker
It used to be said There but for the grace of God go I but in this present period of the Churchs history it is: There go I.
391 - Sep 2002 - The strange case of Father Damien and Robert Louis Stevenson, Fr F.E. Burns PE
and the father of all who love goodness: and he was your father too if God had given you the grace to see it.
392 - Aug 2002 - Reflection: What Catholics should expect of their priests: men 'clothed in holiness', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
High standard From the above we can see that the Church expects an almost impossibly high standard of virtue from her priests; but then we must remember that the priest has been by his ordination raised to extraordinary heights of grace as the minister of the most high God.
393 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
ABORTION AND MARTYRDOM edited by Aidan Nichols (Gracewing 2002 $34.
394 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
On the individual level Dawson is particularly critical of what he terms the bourgeois soul which with its spirit of calculation and worldly prudence becomes a soul closed to love and to grace.
395 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Among the monthly themes over the two year period are Contemplate Jesus Mystery of the Faith Word of God Holiness Grace Penance Eucharist The Family Vocations Charity and Challenges.
396 - Jul 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II clarifies Vatican II teaching on lay and priestly roles, Pope John Paul II
That happens when the Church is not seen in terms of the mystery of grace that marks her but rather in sociological or even political terms.
397 - Jul 2002 - Letters: 60 Minutes attack (letter), Sam Lynch
My first response was daily prayer for His Grace.
398 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
However recognised rightly accepted willingly and experienced and expressed with graciousness even this type of suffering can bring with it a moment of divine grace leading to conversion.
399 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
It has been such a transformation that it is obvious grace has been at work.
400 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Finally but first in order of being set apart the Oil of the Sick is blessed to bring healing grace comfort and support to the sick in their infirmity and to be for the dying their final sealing in Christ.
401 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
Authoritative teaching But if the dogmatic claims of the Catholic Church are true: if the Church was founded by Christ if the sacraments were instituted by Him as a sure source of Grace if Jesus is divine if He did indeed come to save us from sin and eternal death and if He truly rose from the dead then the Churchs relevance to us is obvious and eternal.
402 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
His Grace remarked that while young people are there to set the Church on fire older people (himself included) are there to ensure they dont burn it down.
403 - May 2002 - General absolutions continue in the Toowoomba Diocese, Michael Gilchrist
Canon 961 directs that general absolution without prior individual confession cannot be given to a number of penitents except where danger of death threatens or there exists a grave necessity as where there are too few confessors available thus depriving penitents of sacramental grace .
404 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
(Nearly all these statistics are taken from Grace Davie Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates (2000).
405 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
We can only pray that by the grace of Easter our leaders will renounce the logic of darkness and death and support instead reverence for every human life from conception until natural death.
406 - Apr 2002 - Books: 'The Church In The Dark Ages' by Henri Daniel-Rops, Michael Lynch
Interestingly heresies such as Pelagianism with its view that we can attain heaven on our own without the help of grace seems very up-to-date.
407 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
Numerous acts of grace such as Gozos escape from the plague in the following year and escape from serious damage in World War II together with many miracles of healing have since been attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of Ta Pinu.
408 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
Achieving holiness is something we cannot do without Gods grace but there is much we can do to build the kingdom of His grace in the world.
409 - Apr 2002 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2002 - Young Catholics restoring Sydney's Christian culture, Helen Ransom
Present at the event was a group of young Melburnians in Sydney for His Graces installation.
410 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
it required a greater grace; it not only pertained to the order of grace - it was related to the hypostatic union.
411 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
And we all stand in need of the grace of God.
412 - Mar 2002 - St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage, Mother Teresa OCDM
As the relics of St Theacute;regrave;se continue their visitation of Australia Mother Teresa of the Carmelite monastery in Kew (Melbourne) provides an appreciation of the significance of this pilgrimage of grace.
413 - Feb 2002 - New Titles from AD Books
95 Full of Grace: An Oral Biography of Cardinal John OConnor by Terry Golway Full of Grace is a tribute and an unprecedented remembrance of one of the United States greatest churchmen.
414 - Feb 2002 - Letters: School Masses, Br Con Moloney CFC
Though I have no right to judge their motives I wonder whether our students are aware of the teaching of the Church as stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace.
415 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
The life of grace completes and elevates nature.
416 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The ongoing renewal and regular celebration of individual and personal confession will please God be a great grace for us in the way ahead.
417 - Feb 2002 - Editorial: St Thérèse's relics: a pilgrimage of grace, Peter Westmore
Thrses relics in Australia is therefore an occasion of grace in which we can meditate with St Thrse on the great gifts which God has given us and pray to her for the graces needed to emulate her love of God and neighbour.
418 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
They believed that the Thomist tradition although of great value for the Church had become ossified into rigid categories that principles which were thought to have been formulated by Aquinas were in fact 16th century revisions that the interpretation of the grace-nature relationship in 16th and 17th century scholastic thought had given rise to unhelpful dualisms in Catholic thought and practice that the insights of the Patristics had been neglected in the focus upon scholasticism and that the intellectual formation of seminarians was all too often limited to parroting scholastic maxims.
419 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Soul Survivor' - Philip Yancey book launch at Thomas More Centre, Bill Muehlenberg
Paul said he was deeply influenced by Yancey and his book What Is So Amazing About Grace?
420 - Dec 2001 - Editorial: A Christmas reflection, Peter Westmore
In the powerful and mysterious words of St John the Evangelist the Word of God dwelt amongst us full of grace and truth.
421 - Nov 2001 - Reflection: All Souls Day and a Christian response to bereavement, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The Christian community and its ritual responses to death must give each bereaved person the grace to grieve in his or her own way.
422 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
They are also urged to confess less serious sins that is venial sins to draw strength and grace from this sacrament of healing.
423 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
I am a sinner in need of grace and mercy like all else and sit in judgment of no one.
424 - Oct 2001 - Reflection: Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist, Bishop Kevin Manning
However God has not left us in ignorance for He has revealed His truth to us in ways that we can understand that is through the gift of our faith and the grace of the Holy Spirit who helps us to understand.
425 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine', Archbishop Sheehan, Fr Peter Joseph, Br Christian Moe FSC
For the author/reviser Fr Peter Joseph of the Wagga Wagga Diocese this new book has been a labour of love; for several years he has lived with Archbishop Sheehans originals and chapter by chapter tried where necessary to present the same treasures of wisdom and grace in language and with illustrations more relevant and accessible to a new readership.
426 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Non-Christian gods (letter), Jane Wilks
It has no place for Divine Mercy and the transmission of grace through the Sacraments.
427 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
But what is worse than this presumptuous selection is the covert assumption that it is possible for men to have these genuine and constant without the operation and guidance of Christian doctrine and sacramental grace .
428 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop Hart opens Thomas More Centre Bookroom, Catherine Sheehan
00pm the bookroom was officially opened by His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart.
429 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
Under the influence of the Holy Spirit and Gods grace we strive to give up our own will in order to live as Jesus lived completely subject to the will of His Father: I come not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.
430 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Mass leaflet (letter), Stephanie McClarty
This leaflet which has been produced with the hope of enkindling an increased awareness and reverence for the Holy Mass has been published by the Legion of Mary Brisbane Comitium with the approval of His Grace Archbishop Bathersby.
431 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
It was a special moment of grace - there was a dramatic change from before to after that visit says Anthony Lilles associate director of liturgy for the Archdiocese.
432 - Aug 2001 - Editorial: The Assumption of Our Lady: 15 August, Michael Gilchrist
As we celebrate the Feast of Our Ladys Assumption this month we might recall the words of Vatican II in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) part 66: Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son as the most holy mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ: she is rightly honoured by a special cult in the Church.
433 - Jul 2001 - Books: 'Five Loaves and Two Fishes' by Archbishop F. X. Nguyen Van Thuan, Anthony Cappello
And so this book takes us on a spiritual journey with Archbishop Thuans experience as a guide helping us to understand that Gods grace gives us energy to work and to go on even in the most desperate moments.
434 - Jul 2001 - Carnivale Christi: an inspiring display of Christian culture, Angela Smith
Lucy OConnell combined with King David to present Psalm 22-and-a-half in honour of His Graces appointment to the Sydney Archdiocese.
435 - Jun 2001 - Reflection: The priest: mediator between God and man, Archbishop George Pell
The Church of Melbourne will always be in my prayers and I wish you all priests religious and people every grace and blessing at this Easter and into the future.
436 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Doctors of the Church' by Bernard McGinn, Angela Joseph
They possess a special charism or grace that arises from within that is from the gift of the Holy Spirit.
437 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
However the document recognises that breaking long-established habits of sexual indulgence is difficult and without the help of grace .
438 - May 2001 - Reflection: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit', Fr Ian Falconer SJ
With the help of Gods gift of grace we can struggle to bring ourselves to accept whatever He allows to happen to us through no fault of our own.
439 - May 2001 - Books: Stations Of The Cross (CD), Perth Catholic Productions, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
It has been given the imprimatur of His Grace Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth.
440 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
Chapter III discusses how we develop positively through the virtues in the grace and love of God particularly through love obedience and humility.
441 - May 2001 - Letters: Paul Collins (letter), Arnold Jago (Dr)
Millions of people around the world find that the Church - yes the disciplining centralised Church - enables them to experience Gods truth and grace plus the hope of eternal closeness to God.
442 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II on necessity of individual confession Priests should be generous ministers of the Sacrament of Penance During his annual meeting with members of the Apostolic Penitentiary the penitentiary fathers of the patriarchal basilicas of the city and the participants in the annual course on the internal forum John Paul II emphasised that Jesus is the sole and necessary mediator of eternal salvation and deriving from this was the necessity with regard to eternal salvation of those means of grace instituted by Jesus which are the Sacraments.
443 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
This grace of conversion has led many to establish new communities of religious and faithful.
444 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service New Indian Cardinals declaration Call for evangelisation of Asia It is time to get ready for the big moment of grace the time for the Gospel to spread all over Asia said Cardinal Ivan Dias of Bombay one of the two Cardinals from India created by John Paul II in the last consistory.
445 - Mar 2001 - Books: Come To The Father: An Invitation to Share the Catholic Faith, Aidan Nichols OP, Christopher Quinn
Theological areas frequently missing in Catholic catechetical texts are present here: the fall angels and the devil grace hell and damnation.
446 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Consecrated life (letter), Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
While not discounting the power of Gods grace to work through human weakness it is not prudent for us to dismiss our own limitations as irrelevant.
447 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report
And earlier the same day police raided the worship service of Grace Church a house church organisation being held in the home of Rev Nguyen Ngoc Hien according to the Compass Direct agency.
448 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
This should help them face the challenges of secondary school and teenage life with clear notions of God His Grace His faith community and His love.
449 - Dec 2000 - Reflection: The coming of Christ on earth, Pope John Paul II
During these days of grace the Church has made us reflect through her liturgy on the mystery of the twofold coming of Christ: in the lowliness of our human nature and in the final coming of his Parousia.
450 - Nov 2000 - Reflection: Brother Andrew (1928-2000): returning to spiritual basics, Brother Andrew
The self-destruction of many of these orders and institutions through a loss of the faith-vision in Christ and reliance on his grace and providence in the face of difficulties and limitations as well as the loss of regular personal and community prayer in daily life.
451 - Nov 2000 - The Great Jubilee: reaffirming the spiritual power of indulgences, Catherine Cavanagh
For those who have been trying to live the Great Jubilee what a great gift of grace it has been so far.
452 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Church of Christ is one and subsists or is found in the Catholic Church where the fullness of the means of grace and salvation are present.
453 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English
Words like Our Lord blessings grace offering up prayer sacrifice ought to be in current daily use.
454 - Aug 2000 - Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong: 'a time of blessing', Fr Mark De Battista
While its fruits must result from the Holy Spirits action they also depend on the fidelity of those who receive the grace.
455 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope went on to pray that the Christians of the East and West can be able to experience as soon as possible the joy and grace of full unity and communion in the faith and in apostolic work.
456 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000
A mission is a wondrous grace at any time but this Millennium celebration has been unique.
457 - Jun 2000 - Reflection: Dom Columba Marmion on the significance of Pentecost, Dom Columba Marmion
But this gift like every grace was merited for us by Jesus.
458 - Jun 2000 - Highway to Heaven: raffle becomes an apostolate to truck drivers, Neville Kenyon
As one who finds it almost impossible to back up a 6 x 4 trailer efficiently I never ceased to marvel at the easy grace and skill with which they maneuvered the monsters they controlled.
459 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
It was a moment of grace and homecoming according to Bishop John J.
460 - May 2000 - Reflection: Mary's divine motherhood: central to God's plan of salvation, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Mary was predestined from all eternity - not merely as we might be predestined by Gods design to possess grace and glory but as the one who would share in actually establishing the whole order of grace and glory through her divine maternity.
461 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Ever-Illuminating Wisdom of St Thomas Aquinas' by Peter Kreeft et al, Tracey Rowland
The essay on the subject of nature and grace in St Thomas by John Haas is very introductory.
462 - May 2000 - Letters: God's love (letter), Justin Ford
Duggan (March AD2000) rightly insists on the necessity of keeping the commandments if we are to retain the virtue of charity and the life of grace without which we will be eternally deprived of the vision of God.
463 - May 2000 - Letters: 'Day of Pardon' (letter), Paul MacLeod
They thereby missed an opportunity to make clear to Australian Catholics the teaching as expressed by Pope Paul VI: The Church is therefore holy though having sinners in her midst because she herself has no other life but the life of grace (Credo of the People of God).
464 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
The supernatural as Catholics should know is not a scientific quasi-scientific or metaphysical category; rather it is a theological one pertaining to the order of Divine Grace.
465 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
The sacraments play a crucial role in Christian life conferring that most precious gift of divine grace restoring it if it has been lost or increasing it where the soul seeks further sanctification.
466 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
The Church is made up of wheat and tares from the bottom to the top sinners in need of grace!
467 - Apr 2000 - Indulgences and the Millennium Jubilee Year, Neil Coup
In New Zealand the Maori concept of Taonga expresses a revealed truth of the Churchs Tradition concerning indulgences which at least in local practice would seem to have been deliberately down-played in more recent years as an ecumenical embarrassment but which the present Millennium Jubilee Year of Grace is now setting before us anew.
468 - Mar 2000 - Books: 'Building Family Prayer and Traditions' by Steve Givens, Catherine Sheehan
Religious tradition once a natural part of Catholic family life with regular Mass Rosary Confession Benediction Grace before meals holy days of obligation and no meat on Fridays is nowadays generally a thing of the past.
469 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
The primary challenge of the Catholic school with the indispensable help of Gods grace is to help its pupils know understand and appreciate the Mysteries of Gods Love.
470 - Mar 2000 - Priestly vocations increasing in Melbourne, Fr Paul Stuart
It can also be said that Gods grace the prayers of thousands in the Archdiocese and the efforts of all those who have worked hard in vocational ministry in the past have been fruitful.
471 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Missing ‘glue’ (letter), Joseph Taylor
Catholics know that the needed glue is belief in God and depending on his grace to live in accordance with his laws.
472 - Feb 2000 - The comunità: a new form of monastic life for Australia, Peter Westmore
It is written in the archives that in May of that year the Virgin laid up for the comunit a miraculous grace in the appointment of this young priest and that he is the true founder of the comunit.
473 - Dec 1999 - Reflection: Christmas: John Paul II's thoughts on the eve of the Jubilee, Pope John Paul II
The life of grace thus reveals a dimension of eternity that lifts up our earthly existence and directs it with true continuity to our entrance into heavenly life.
474 - Dec 1999 - On the Highway to Heaven: Wagga priest's trucking apostolate, Fr Thomas Casanova
To increase the number and holiness of the faithful is most important but building a church is a unique opportunity of grace in the history of a parish.
475 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
To deny that the power of Gods grace enables homosexuals to live chastely is to deny effectively that Jesus has risen from the dead.
476 - Nov 1999 - Reflection: How unconditional is God's love?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
For as St Paul says: By grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves for it is the gift of God.
477 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
In less than 50 years by the grace of God the fruits of their efforts have been many and marvellous.
478 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
The kind of vertical high Christianity that I was brought up in - which was about grace and salvation of the soul in the next world - was replaced by a notion that we must be the yeast for a brave new world.
479 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
The list of course topics includes Thom-ism Introduction to Sexual Ethics Religious Art History Nature and Grace Patristics Metaphysics and The Logic of Religion.
480 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Of particular significance is par 7 which states: With reference to the stipulation of canon 961 1 2 that for general absolution to be justified one of the conditions to be met is that otherwise the penitent would be deprived of sacramental grace or Holy Communion for a lengthy period of time (diu in Latin).
481 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Unfurl your colours blood and purity against the double tyranny and rouse a nation workers in Gdansk students of the halls and mothers in the streets whose pavement blooms speak solidarity in silence because your name is Hope a bursting of tombs the liberty of grace.
482 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
It remains notable for its sanity and wisdom its understanding of human nature with its failings and limitations but also its capacity for good when open to the influence of divine grace.
483 - Sep 1999 - Scripture: The call to conversion in the early Church: lessons for today, Rev Dr Peter Waters
It solemnly declared that salvation was a gift of Gods grace to both Jew and Gentile through Jesus Christ and faith in his name.
484 - Aug 1999 - Reflection: Hymn In honour of Our Lady's Assumption, Fr Ramsey Williams SSC
Mary you now reign on high far beyond the earth and sky; Queen endowed with royal grace highest honour of our race.
485 - May 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: Christ provides the answer to the mystery of human suffering, Pope John Paul II
Human questioning Suffering as I wrote in the Apostolic Letter Salvifici doloris cannot be transformed and changed by a grace from outside but from within .
486 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
His Grace used to walk each day from his home at Raheen in Kew through Collingwood and Fitzroy to St Patricks.
487 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Im asking everyone to pray that others who have been away from the Church for whatever reason may receive the grace that God is definitely giving to them and be filled with courage said the Cardinal.
488 - Apr 1999 - How an American diocese promotes individual confession
He added This is going to be a time of millennium grace.
489 - Apr 1999 - Adelaide Archdiocese on the brink over general absolutions, AD2000 Report
nbsp; there exists a grave necessity that is given the number of penitents there are not enough confessors available properly to hear the individual confessions within an appropriate time so that without fault of their own the penitents are deprived of the sacramental grace or of holy communion for a lengthy period of time.
490 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
Gods grace and commands need to connect with our human nature as it is so I begin by confining myself to the Pills side-effects and then when the couples realise what these can be they are then more receptive to what the Catholic Church teaches in this area.
491 - Mar 1999 - Pilgrim Statue Of Mary Help Of Christians welcomed in Brisbane, Patrick Quirk
His Grace Archbishop Bathersby signalled the statues debut by celebrating a Cathedral Mass for the Feast of the Presentation with a candlelight procession led by the statue.
492 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
We are looking forward to growing in Gods grace and the ability to serve the Church in greater ways.
493 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
Nevertheless he says this time of grace may be preceded by more difficult times which could well result in a smaller and more intense - but holier - Church.
494 - Feb 1999 - Reflection: Catholic identity and 'reading the signs of the times', John Kelly
Tertullians position admits no compromise: the worlds of grace and nature are worlds apart; Christ and humanistic culture are at odds.
495 - Dec 1998 - Intercommunion: why Catholics need not 'apologise', Kevin Myers
It is the greatest of all sacraments for Catholics who must be in a state of grace unstained by grave sin before they may receive the Communion host in their mouths.
496 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
In the first category were: The articles of faith of the Creed the various Christological dogmas and Marian dogmas; the doctrine of the institution of the sacraments by Christ and their efficacy with regard to grace; the doctrine of the real and substantial presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the sacrificial nature of the eucharistic celebration; the foundation of the Church by the will of Christ; the doctrine on the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff; the doctrine on the existence of original sin; the doctrine on the immortality of the spiritual soul and on the immediate recompense after death; the absence of error in the inspired sacred texts; the doctrine on the grave immorality of direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being.
497 - Jul 1998 - Inclusive language: 'eventually all nonsense implodes upon itself', Gerald Wilson
One wonders just what benefits could be derived from the substitution of ungainly polysyllabic terms for the elegant economy grace and undertones of reverence of the traditional language.
498 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
From knowing worshipping and loving flows the grace to act justly to be a person who serves others a mature active Christian whose prayer overflows into fearless action even evangelisation.
499 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
The great tragedy is to be unaware of or indifferent to the potential of our suffering mental moral emotional physical that we can unite it to the suffering and death of Christ on the Cross and help continue the salvation of souls as well as to bring down great graces on the world.
500 - Aug 1997 - Reflection: A young Catholic comments on the meaning of church 'participation', Lucy O'Connell
Let us deepen our knowledge and appreciation of sacramental grace the Eucharist Our Lady Catherine of Siena Teresa of Avila.
501 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Decisions are to be based on asking key questions such as: How can our actions in this situation best reflect the love faithfulness and grace of God that comes in Jesus Christ?
502 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
A statue remains above his tomb at St Florent to this day marked with the words Grace aux prisonniers.
503 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
Of the three possible attitudes a nominal Catholic can take to this change the first is to carry on regardless resisting secularisation by all legitimate spiritual and social means (including merely technical modernisation) convinced that the traditional religion and culture of Christendom are the highest expressions of the human spirit we know and are in fact the indirect fruit of the operations of Gods grace.
504 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
Clergy of my generation well remember that grace builds on nature.
505 - Sep 1995 - Saints and heroes: where the difference lies, Lawrence Cross
The martyr and saint represent a much deeper reality a theological mystery of grace.
506 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
Crucial difference We have been forced to learn how to hang on to our faith at all costs to know every aspect of it and to seek sacramental grace with a fierce desire which I would never have known if I did not have to fight for it.
507 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
To grow the seed needs the supernatural aid of grace and the natural help of education.
508 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion
Indeed because sin is understood only as action which harms the tribe there is no knowledge of participating in humanitys all-inclusive fall from grace and thus no acknowledgement of the need for an all-inclusive act of redemption.
509 - Feb 1995 - Reflection: Receiving Communion: why the Church's rule should be followed, Christine McCarthy
Such a practice weakens the positive catechesis that Communion is not ordinary food but Christ himself body blood soul and divinity truly received whole and entire in each of the species (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1377) lest anyone should think that a failure to drink the Precious Blood lessens the grace received.
510 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear that an early and active role is required of parents in the education in faith of their children: Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage parents receive the responsibility and privilege of evangelising their children.
511 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
It is obvious for instance that the Church has traditionally taught with great firmness and constancy the personal existence of the Devil the historical fall from grace of our first parents the historical contraction of original sin by generation the absolute immorality of contraception (and of other specific classes of sexual conduct which many of you want the Church to permit) the impossibility of womens ordination and the disciples true seeing touching and eating with the risen Christ.
512 - Dec 1994 - Cardinal Hume: the new Catechism must be implemented, Simon Matthews
However original sin the virgin birth the ten commandments grace and many other long-neglected topics are explicitly listed to be taught.
513 - Oct 1994 - An Australian's impressions of an orthodox U.S. Catholic college, Renee Ryan
Our chaplain Fr Healy makes himself available to students on a regular basis celebrating daily Masses leading Rosary recitations saying grace before meals and joining in lunchtime discussions.
514 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
The Bishops Committee had taken issue with the authors treatment of grace and other points of doctrine which it said remain confusing and ambiguous: for example the description of the virginal conception of Jesus as a theologoumenon (in McBriens words: A non-doctrinal theological interpretation that cannot be verified or refuted on the basis of historical evidence but that can be affirmed because of the close connection with some defined doctrine about God (p.
515 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
Despite this sad trend we know the pride that many good Christian parents still have in their children and the hard work unselfish love hurt and persistence (together with luck and the grace of God) which they know is necessary for a happy outcome for their families.
516 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning
In HIM the Father offers us not only the Truth but also the new law which is his spirit within us - his grace which enables us to love and do good.
517 - Feb 1994 - Reflection: The Immaculate Conception: Mary’s unique holiness, Br Christian Moe FSC
Glory of grace Pope John Paul sums up all these thoughts when he says According to the belief formulated in the solemn documents of the Church this glory of grace (Eph.
518 - Feb 1994 - New studies raise question: How 'Catholic' are Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
(One person asked: Who is this person Grace?
519 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
Each person undertakes the same hour every week; this Holy Hour of prayer is a recognition of the wondrous presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and a channel of great graces for individual souls the Church the whole world.
520 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
These things are happening primarily due to the Grace of God.
521 - Jul 1993 - Reflection: Eucharistic reverence: 'How our actions reflect our belief', Christine McCarthy
Signs of grace The priest is alter Christus - another Christ - and we treat him with great dignity.
522 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
I choose the Church with the Mass as the holding centre of the Christian people where Christ really transforms our ordinary bread and wine into a life of immense grace even if it is hidden beneath the pettiness and grubbiness of my exterior.
523 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
Bishop Myers attributes the results in Peoria to grace and to a refusal on his part to soften the Churchs celibacy requirement: I found that rather than caving in to the culture holding the ideal high gets young peoples attention.
524 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
The third part before entering into the Decalogue treats in detail of mans call to happiness human liberty human acts passions conscience virtue sin the moral law grace and justification and the Church as teacher of the moral life.
525 - Feb 1993 - The dimming of the 'vision splendid': religious life in distress, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Taking a last stand for the classical forms of religious life these religious have few illusions as to their chances of putting the toothpaste back into the tube (to use a clicheacute; much overworked in convent circles) although they trust no doubt that the grace of God could do it given the right conditions.
526 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
This book bears no imprimatur while its author in the manner of Fr Richard McBriens Catholicism - a book which the Australian Bishops warned against in 1980 - presents approvingly the speculations of numbers of modern theologians and urges acceptance of theories which deny for instance the authority and infallibility of the Church the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist that revelation was completed with the Apostles the doctrine of original sin Church teachings on grace and the person of Jesus Christ in his divine and human natures while some traditional norms of morality are to be considered only as guidelines to be disregarded according to the demands of a particular situation.
527 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
With great theological rigour and intellectual integrity I see a theological convergence taking place on all the critical questions - Eucharist the Mass the nature of grace authority of Scripture even on the Petrine ministry there is today some agreement.
528 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
He rejoiced in the free gift of grace yet he maintained a dramatic sense of sin never morose always a call to loving repentance.
529 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
He has also the saving grace of a sense of humour and if a redoubtable opponent he does not bear grudges.
530 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck
In the present atmosphere thumbing ones nose at the Pope is easy but it would be an act of grace in both senses of the term if the good professors at Notre Dames theology department stood before the high altar in Sacred Heart Church and pronounced their Profession of Faith.
531 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
It is this which has provided the ripple effect of grace from the College through homes classrooms hospitals courtrooms and the marketplace.
532 - Dec 1989 - Challenging the atmosphere and agenda of secularist Australia, Karl Schmude
Grace perfects Nature: it does not replace it.
533 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
Quite reminiscent of that is the teaching of those who today profess as Catholic a theology in which no sin can be mortal can exclude one from the grace of Gods friendship however freely and knowingly it is committed unless it amounts to a reversal of ones so-called fundamental option an orientation of ones whole self towards or as the case may be away from God an orientation which (on one theologically widespread version of the theory) occurs mysteriously below the level of consciousness and reflective self- consciousness and is indeed not itself a free choice between alternatives.
534 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
Baptism takes away Original Sin by infusing the life of Gods grace into our souls.
535 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
READ: Or about grace.
536 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
Thanks to the power of the grace received at Ordination - if the doctrines once communicated to us retain their pristine validity - a man becomes something more than himself.
537 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
The elements therefore have a dual essence - remaining bread and wine but impregnated with the full saving effectiveness of Christs presence (Fr David Coffey Grace: the Gift of the Holy Spirit p.
538 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
539 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Generous response (letter), Grace O'Hara
540 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Book search, Grace O'Hara
541 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Fatima Family Apostolate (letter), Margaret Grace