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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1013) Lord, for your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” I call it, “ Crossing the Bridge”, opening the smaller story of your life to the transformational power of “Connection” . The bottom line is that we were created for eternal life in God, but original sin separated us from the tree of life. It is as though we are left stranded on the bank of a deep, fast-moving river that we cannot cross. We thirst fo...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This is an extremely important episode. Here is the answer to the many currents of evil that surround us today. Christ has come to set us free from sin and death. The oppressor is not found in an economic model as the early Marxists proclaimed. Nor is it in Critical Theory as the later disciples of the marxist philosophy stated. Christ has come to se...

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” When we allow children to be sexually exploited to serve an ideology that is irrational we know that we have entered a new historical moment. It is a great time to be alive! Evil is out in the open. Do you see it? Then let's have the courage to make a stand and say, "enough is enough!" Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! ...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” John Paul II begins with a question. What is the meaning of the Statement: “the flesh has desires contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires contrary to the flesh” (Gal5:17)?  Then he addresses the human heart. And specifically Jesus Sermon on the mount about how we look at one another, and the battle for purity of heart.  Now St Paul JPII sa...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” ..we would have gone on, but thankfully dad, a 96-year-old world-war II veteran, wondered out loud, “most of this just doesn’t make rational sense.” He is right of course. It never does when the morally corrupt rule the world. I answered him, “dad, what is even more disconcerting is to think about how many citizens of our country not only vote the co...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me....I am the way, and the truth, and the life." (John 14:1; 6). "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.&quot...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Life in the Flesh" or another way to put it, "the World without God," has desires contrary to the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. This life of sin and death runs deep within man. Original sin forms in us along with our body and soul and a conflict ensues. The body/flesh easily gets the upper hand. Our desires are impure (Romans 1:28-32)...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A few weeks ago at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park Illinois a physical education teacher, who was assigned to teach "health" to the middle schoolers, got himself into trouble by going off script. Apparently, he asked questions that were not supposed to be part of the sex ed teaching for the day. Health class is where our children le...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A person is never to be reduced to use. The only way to look at another person is with love. "Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God" (Matt 5:8) In the Sermon on the Mount Christ speaks in the perspective of the redemption of men and women and the world. This is, in fact, the perspective of the whole gospel, of the whole t...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Includes Father Ryan Browning's Meditation "Praying with Temptation" Father Browning began his meditation, "There are temptations that assail me all the time; I feel like giving up. I'm never going to escape their grip. Have you ever had thoughts such as these as you try to live out the faith? Does it seem hopeless at times t...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Culture is pulverizing our children. The sexual exploitation of children by Netflix and Disney, the Porn industry, Social Media, Big Tech, and Government Institutions is well known. But what surprised so many is that this is being carried on right under parents noses in the public school system. Many are asking a question, and it is a good one. W...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” It is sad to think  that many women may have never experienced love making from the perspective of the redemption of the body? In the Sermon on the Mount Christ speaks in the perspective of the redemption of men and women and the world. This is, in fact, the perspective of the whole gospel, of the whole teaching, even more, of the whole mission of Ch...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” There is something about the challenge of raising children in a world gone mad that is finally motivating the slow learners (some of them at least) to enter into a discussion beyond sports, romance novels and the latest social media fad. Anxiety, depression, self-harm, gender confusion and talk of suicide among teens is reaching pandemic levels. Join...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Two consistent questions I get "What is CRT.?.. and once understood...but why would anyone seek to divide humanity?" Marxism claims that some groups and classes of human beings are good and others bad, so to perfect itself, humanity must isolate and eliminate the bad people. Solzhenitsyn came to realize instead that the dividing line betwee...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We are invited to a full and mature spontaneity in a relationship that is born from the perennial attraction of masculinity and femininity. The fruit of the discernment of the impulses of one's own heart! Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #48 that Pope John Paul II presented on November 12, 1980. "Every day the power of " Ma...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Italians have a beautiful expression for Love: ti voglio bene. Though commonly translated as "I love you," more literally it means "I want what is good for you." This phrase reminds us that love is not primarily about what good feelings may be stirring within. It is a decision of the will...to see the good in another and &quot...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "We must face the difference between two philosophies of human nature which must be traced back to fundamental differences in their philosophy of God--anthropocentric humanism and theocentric humanism: theocentric humanism recognizes that God is the center of man; it implies the Christian conception of man, sinner and redeemed, and the Christian...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Eros, which according to Plato, is the impulse, or desire, of pure ideas that lifts the soul toward the transcendent...and all that is true, good and beautiful. In the Symposium, Plato describes the stages of ero's influence: it lifts the soul of a human being from the beauty of an individual body to that of all bodies, thus to the beauty of sci...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Many Young people, and many older people... have had the  the experience of feeling  they were in love with someone who at first seemed absolutely wonderful, only later to become greatly disappointed in the person, disillusioned about the relationship and perhaps even pessimistic about the opposite sex as a whole.  John Paul II explains why this ofte...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Is the Heart accused or called? Since Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, we find not simply skepticism...for they are surely the three great 'destroyers' of the Human Heart. Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #46 that Pope John Paul II presented on October 29,  1980. "Every day the power of " Man and Woman He Created Them, a Th...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” " I always knew I was different. I could never quite put my finger on it but I always knew that I was not like the other boys. I always felt disconnected from my same-sex  peers like I somehow just didn’t belong. Today I am a forty-something east coast-dwelling, happily married father of three wonderful children. I am a public high school teache...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jay W. Richards, PhD, is Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.  He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and Executive Editor of The Stream .   Jay is author or editor of more than a dozen...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The abortion pill and human remains to be used as fertilizer.  We are spiritual being living in "disconnection". The Eucharist is the way to "Communion" Luke 24:13-35 Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!!  JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future...