SEEING JESUS IN THE SICK AND ELDERLY (Read Mt. 25: 31-46)
UTILITARIANISM! A very long word, difficult to pronounce without tripping over one of the letters, and understood by very few, permeates the American society with its philosophy and praxis.
MEANING AND PROPONENTS. Two of the major proponents of this all-pervasive philosophy were English political philosophers of the 19th century—J.S. Mill and Jeremy Bentham. Its meaning? To be direct and to the point and as clear as possible, the meaning is the following: The human person has value in proportion to how much money they can make and save, … Read more
By far the most important action in your life is your encounter with God, with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. How? As a practicing Catholic, every day you can receive Jesus, the Bread of Life, the Bread of the Angels, the Great Gift of God in Holy Communion—His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. In the Our Father we pray: “Give us this day our daily bread.” Giving a Sacramental interpretation to this phrase in the Our Father, it also means to give us this day Holy Communion in the context of Holy Mass.
It is the basic cell of society; it is the oldest and one of the most important institutions; it is the Domestic-Church; it is the society and community by which children enter the world, are formed and trained to be citizens of this world and the world to come—yes, this is the HUMAN-FAMILY!
The primary focus, reason, and essence of Christmas is the Incarnation and birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born of the Virgin Mary in the damp, cold, humid, dark, and hard stable of Bethlehem, Jesus came primarily to save us. Venerable Fulton Sheen asserts that the most important name that we can give to Jesus is that of SAVIOR. Jesus is the universal Savior. Indeed, Jesus came to save us of all that is evil: sin, the devil, sadness, depression, despair, and the possibility of the loss of our soul forever in the torments of hell!
