• Fourth Week of Advent (Year B)

• • Faith Celebrated
  • Pillars of Faith
• 7 years ago
• The Gospel of the 4th Sunday of Advent proposes to us the account of the Annunciation (Lk 1:26-38), the mystery to which we return every day in reciting the Angelus. The prayer makes us relive the dec... [read more]
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• Third Week of Advent (Year B)

• • Faith Celebrated
  • Pillars of Faith
• 7 years ago
• What does "the Lord is at hand" mean?  In what sense must we understand this "closeness" of God? The Church, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, already at that time understood increasingly better that Go... [read more]
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• Second Week of Advent (Year B)

• • Faith Celebrated
  • Pillars of Faith
• 7 years ago
• A message full of hope resounds in the liturgy of Advent, inviting us to raise our gaze to the ultimate horizon but at the same time to recognise the signs of the God-with-us in the present.  In the S... [read more]
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• First Week of Advent (Year B)

• • Faith Celebrated
  • Pillars of Faith
• 7 years ago
• In Advent, Christians relive a dual impulse of the spirit: on the one hand, they raise their eyes towards the final destination of their pilgrimage through history, which is the glorious return of the... [read more]
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• Jesus Taught Us to Pray (CCC 2558–2758)

• • Faith Prayed
• 7 years ago
• The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father  Jesus teaches his disciples and us to pray in the words of the ‘Our Father’. The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers, containing all that we rightly desire b... [read more]
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• God Calls Us to Pray (CCC 2558–2758)

• • Faith Prayed
• 7 years ago
• The Foundations of Prayer   Prayer stands at the heart of our relationship with God. In prayer, a believer humbly seeks to grow in union with God, revealed in Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy... [read more]
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• The Tenth Commandment: Embrace Poverty of Spirit (CCC 2534–2557)

• You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbour’s Goods   The Tenth Commandment extends the meaning of the Seventh and Ninth Commandments as it urges poverty of spirit and generosity of heart. These virtues free ... [read more]

• The Ninth Commandment: Practise Purity of Heart (CCC 2514–2533)

• You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbours’s Wife  The Ninth Commandment teaches us to guard ourselves against impurity of heart. The heart is the seat of moral acts, and the grace of the sacraments stren... [read more]

• The Eighth Commandment: Tell the Truth  (CCC 2401–2463)

• You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbour God is the source of all truth. Christ Jesus not only taught truth, he spoke of himself, saying, ‘I am Truth’ (Jn 14:6). The Eighth Commandment... [read more]

• The Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal – Act Justly (CCC 2401–2463)

• • Faith Lived
• 7 years ago
• You Shall Not Steal  The Seventh Commandment prohibits theft – the taking of another’s goods against the reasonable will of the owner. Every form of theft is contrary to God’s will and constitutes an... [read more]
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• The Sixth Commandment: Marital Fidelity (CCC 2331–2400)

• You Shall Not Commit Adultery The Sixth Commandment calls spouses to permanent and exclusive fidelity to one another, a countercultural value in contemporary society. Fidelity in marriage flows fro... [read more]

• The Fifth Commandment: Promote the Culture of Life (CCC 2258–2330)

• • Faith Lived
• 7 years ago
• You Shall Not Kill  The Catholic Church defends the sanctity of human life as a gift from God. Human life is sacred because it originates in God’s creative love. God alone is the Creator of L... [read more]
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