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Book Review: Faith, Reason and the Existence of God

Archivist Author — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:55:41 +0000

Vatican I decreed it to be a matter of faith that “God, the source and end of all things, can be known with certainty from the consideration of created things, by the natural power of human reason.” Denys Turner, in this very rich treatment of the issue of proving the existence of God takes this […]

Ministers of Mystery

Archivist Author — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:00:54 +0000

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC No. 234) holds the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity to be the central mystery of Christian faith and life. “It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the […]

Resurrect Your Faith

Archivist Author — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 11:08:26 +0000

At the heart of today’s Gospel, is the call to be unwavering in our faith. Lazarus was dead and was brought back to life, but he never would have been raised back to life had Mary and Martha not had some amount of faith. They could not have known that Jesus would raise Lazarus from […]

St. Joseph – The wordless teacher of discernment.

Archivist Author — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:02:43 +0000

The most profound knowledge we can learn from another person need not be from their own words. In his book “Adam, God’s Beloved”, written by the widely celebrated spiritual master Fr. Henri Nouwen, this is certainly true. Nouwen admits that despite his years of mingling with the best theological minds and spiritual gurus, he […]

Transfiguring Eucharistic Adoration

Archivist Author — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:24:27 +0000

Anybody who has ever attended benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will most likely have heard the last two verses of a beautiful hymn of praise called the Pange Lingua (better known as the ‘Tantum Ergo’) being sung. Composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, one line in particular speaks of the complete inability of our bodily senses […]