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Divine Love
By Judie Brown“Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.” – St. Charles Borromeo These words serve as a reminder that when a person truly experiences the divine love of Christ, he then emulates His truth in words and...
False Politics
By Judie Brown Pope Benedict XVI once wrote, “Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” Oh how many ways there are to underscore the truth of that simple statement,...
Out of This World
By Judie Brown The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” It continues, “The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the...
Champions
By Judie Brown A champion is a warrior, someone who stands for justice and often does so against the world. As Christ said, “I have told you all this so that you may find peace in me. In the world you will have hardship, but be courageous: I have conquered...
Blazing Fire
By Judie Brown In the Gospel of Luke, Christ says to His disciples, “I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already.” Reflecting on these words, Saint Jose Maria Escriva opined, “An apostolic fire that acquires its strength in prayer:...
Follies
By Judie Brown Saint Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:18, “The message of the cross is folly for those who are on the way to ruin, but for those of us who are on the road to salvation it is the power of God.” We put this in the proper perspective by realizing that while...
The Assumption of Our Lady
By Judie Brown Today commemorates the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of God. The feast day came about when “Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church. . . . He defined it formally as a dogma of...