Washington D.C., Feb 19, 2021 / 03:02 pm ().- God commanded it, Jesus practiced it, Church Fathers have preached the importance of it – fasting is a powerful and fundamental part of the Christian life.
But for many Catholics today, it's more of an afterthought: something we grudgingly do on Good Friday, perhaps on Ash Wednesday if we remember it. Would we fast more, especially during Lent, if we understood how helpful it is for our lives?
The answer to this, say both saints of the past and experts today, is a resounding “yes.”
“Let us take for our standard and for our example those that have run the race, and have won,” said Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo, founding executive director of the Institute of Catholic Culture and a deacon at Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Mclean, Va., of the saints.
“And.those that have run the race and won have been men and women of prayer and fasting.”
So what, in essence, is fasting?
It
World Teacher and Happy Science CEO Publishes The Laws of Hope: The Light is Here
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Learn how to ignite hope from within and overcome depression and other hardships and fulfill your mission of light.
The Laws of Hope
Past News ReleasesRSS NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 20, 2021 “The Laws of Hope: The Light is Here” is the latest title by World Teacher and Happy Science CEO Ryuho Okawa. This book is by no means just a regular self-help title; it is equipped with the power to ignite the flames of the inner candle within our souls through each chapter.
Hope is something that humanity is in dire need of during today s pandemic, confusion, and time of uncertainty but the ‘Hope Okawa describes here is not something we invite from external factors; rather, it is something we can all develop from within our inner mind by generating the core part of our souls called Divine Nature or Buddha Nature. Each
Risen Lord Jesus appears and consoles the mother of Judas Iscariot
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I can t recall anything being said in the holiest Bible concerning Mary of Kerioth, the mother of traitor and debauchee Judas Iscariot. But there s some information about her in the Gospel that Jesus dictated to Maria Valtorta.
Judas Iscariot s mother, Mary of Simon, a widow in the time of Jesus three years evangelisation, was a holy woman and a faithful disciple of Jesus.
Mary of Simon had a close friend nearby whose name was Anne of Kerioth. Both women, mothers, had fallen out of friendship as a result of Mary s son, Judas Iscariot, terminating his relationship with Anne s daughter, Johanna - a virgin. Judas had told her that he didn t want to marry her. She had waited all her youth for him. He was after something better, obviously treating marriage as a business enterprise rather than a holy union in order to give children to God.
Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-31-2020, The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
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St. Francis Xavier Church, Cincinnati .
and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming,
so now many antichrists have appeared.
Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number;
if they had been, they would have remained with us.
Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
But you have the anointing that comes from the Holy One,
and you all have knowledge.
I write to you not because you do not know the truth
Deification: The Lost Doctrine Of The Early Church
December 10, 2020
Keith Giles
Yesterday I had a wonderful conversation with Father Kenneth Tanner. During our talk, he referenced a quote from Athanasius that got my wheels turning.
What he mentioned was that the early Church Father had taught something about the Incarnation of Christ being a journey, not an event in time, where Jesus became fully human only when he died on the cross.
That really got me thinking and so I started to dig into this quote, and into what the early Church Fathers believed about the Incarnation, and that led me to study more about what they believed about the process of Deification within humanity.