"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Would you like to get more out of Mass this Sunday? I would suggest that if you want a more engaging Mass experience, you can’t do better than to spend some time with the Mass Readings beforehand.
Last week, Brant Pitre, one of my favourite theologians started a video channel to talk about the Readings for the upcoming Sunday. Enjoy 🙂
This is why saying “It’s not a child, it’s just a fetus” doesn’t make much sense…
Last week I published an article outlining my response to an abortion meme posted on Facebook by a friend. Today I would like to do something similar. Below is a meme which I also saw on Facebook during Advent:
Once again, I would like to share a modified version of the response I posted in reply as I know some readers find it helpful to see how different Christians respond to stuff like this.
Don’t be a Sith…
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“Hero Down” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The unaccompanied MP3 is available here.
Before I took a break for Advent I posted a quotation from Ravi Zacharias which related to what is known as “The Moral Argument” for the existence of God. I had intended to do a longer post on this subject at some point in the future because I think it’s one of the more interesting arguments in favour of theism.
While on Facebook these last few weeks, I was talking with an atheist and, try as I might, I couldn’t get him to even understand the argument itself.
Was I saying that atheists couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong? No.
Was I saying that atheists were incapable of doing good deeds? No.
In the end I found the following video from Reasonable Faith. Although it didn’t appear to help in that particular conversation, I think it’s one of the most accessible explanations of this argument for the existence of God:
My favourite book of 2015 was New Testament Basics for Catholics by Dr. John Bergsma. So much so, in fact, that several of my friends received copies as Christmas presents!
Here is a short presentation by the book’s author on the material covered in his book: