Know The Faith - Traditional Catholic Lessons and Prayers

I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth; in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come to me all that desire me and be filled with my fruits (Sirach 24: 24-26). O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Grace, Hope of the world. Hear us, your children, who cry to you Let Us Pray O God, who by the marvelous protection of t...

Peace A Gift and a Task

This 3rd week of Advent begins with Gaudete Sunday.. This is the week of the rose-colored candle on the Advent wreath. Gaudete means rejoice, and rejoice means to feel or show great joy, We are getting closer and closer to the celebration of the birth of our Savior, truly a cause of great joy. When the angel first appeared to the shepherds in fields outside of Bethlehem, the angel said to them, "D...

The majority of the details about the nativity all come from the Gospel of Luke, but before St Luke tells us anything about Jesus, he tells us about John The Baptist. In a way, I often think of John the Baptist as the patron of Advent...

Adorable Heart of Jesus, glowing with love for us and inflamed with zeal for our salvation. O Heart that understands the misery to which our sins have brought us, infinitely rich in mercy to heal the wounds of our souls, behold me humbly kneeling before You to express the sorrow that fills my heart for the coldness and indifference with which I have so long returned the numberless benefits which Y...

It maybe December, but it's NOT the Christmas season yet. Even if the department stores starting Advertising Christmas immediately after Halloween, it is still several weeks away. We are really just beginning Advent.

A Prayer of St Bonaventure...

7 Minute Holy Week Daily Reflection Mary my mother, you were the first to live the Way of the Cross...   Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

Many Christians are familiar with the story where the Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery to Jesus and try to test him for charges against the Law's of Moses. Jesus had been showing all sorts of mercy that was unusual to them, eating with sinners and tax collectors, driving demons out of gentiles, and even curing people on the sabbath, they thought they could trap him, but Jesus bent down a...

The Devil's third temptation for Jesus in the Wilderness is Doubt. He leads Jesus to Jerusalem the city where he will soon be rejected and crucified. There he made him stand on the edge of the temple roof, and said to Him "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here " then flipping the script he tries to trap Jesus with some scripture quoting of his own" for it is written: He will com...

Obedience is the 2 nd Temptation of the Devil for Jesus in the Wilderness. The evil one showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant. Then he said to Jesus , "I shall give to you all this power and their glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I may give it to whomever I wish. ... All this will be yours, if you worship me." but Jesus again quotes from Deuteronomy and says" 'Y...

During the 40 Day s that Jesus spent fasting in the desert, The first temptation he experienced from the devil was that of hunger. The Devil sa id " "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." Jesus responds by quot ing from the book of Deuteronomy. 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God" ---"God let the Israelites be afflic...

The 40 days of Lent remind us of when Jesus himself fasted and was tempted in the desert. In the bible 40 symbolizes a time of struggle, purification, and rebirth 40 weeks is the time it take a child to be develop in a mothers womb. Noah in the Ark watched it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and then the people of God were reborn after the flood , Moses went up Mt Sinai for 40 days to receive the Co...

Why is it that on Ash Wednesday, we always hear from the Gospel of Matthew about" not performing deeds of righteousness in order that people see them", we then proceed to have the priest make a cross of ashes on our forehead as we then go out into our workplaces, schools, and the public square? Doesn't this seem a paradox? While the gospel is a good reminder not to flaunt our good deeds nor to thi...

Dan Lynch speaks with Drew Mariani about the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on her feast day.

  We are now in the 4 th week of Advent, Christmas will be here before we know it.  All 4 candles of the advent wreath are fully aglow filling the room with light to remind us how close we are to the arrival of the Light of the World. T he Prophecy we read in Micah says: But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,  least among the clans of Judah, f rom you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel. Beth...

This 3 rd week of advent begins with Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means Rejoice! We take it from the Traditional Introit heard at Mass: Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete ...that translates as Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice! This is the week of the different color advent candle and vestments. While you may be thinking it's pink, the actual color is rose to symbolize rejoic...

People not that familiar with the New Testament, probably assume the Gospels begin with some cute verse, like, It came upon a midnight clear , or Away in a Manger no crib for a bed . But none of the first verses of any of the Gospels, begin with a Christmas narrative. Matthew starts with a long Geneology and while the Gospel of John's beginning may sound more familiar: In the beginning was the Wor...

Advent is now underway. This week we'll take a look at what the word advent actually means. The word advent comes from the Latin word ADVENTUS, which translates as arrival or coming...

Catholicism and Halloween - A Presentation on Halloween and it's Relationship with Christianity, given by Fr Kyle Doustou of the Diocese of Portland, Maine. 2018

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, "We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the...

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, "We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the...

St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, "We are certainly not seduced by the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula but by a Person, and the...

This is an Introduction to three talks that Dan Lynch gave at a retreat in 2003 on St. Pope John Paul II's Plan for the Third Millennium. The 3 talks will be posted in the coming days... St. Pope John Paul II inaugurated the Third Millennium by consecrating it to Our Lady. He also wrote an Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) and said, "We are certainly...

Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises...