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A Church Goverened by the Holy Spirit
With the recent Papal election still fresh in our minds, we read of the Council of Jerusalem from Acts’ Chapter 15 today. It is Scriptural confirmation about the governance of the Church. As we have moved from the reign of Pope Francis to the reign of Pope Leo XIV, it is a timely reading to Continue reading
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Shea Week Eleven
In a Christendom age, a deeper conversion to Christ usually means taking more seriously the moral teaching of the church. In such an age, there’s not much argument over dogmatic teachings. Everyone believes that there is a God and there’s a heaven and hell and there are angels and demons and there’s going to be Continue reading
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Shea Week Ten
Since the church is no longer in the heart of the broader culture, it can do little by means of the traditional methods of diplomacy, developing relationships and maintaining influential positions. We don’t have any influential positions anymore. But we can still be witnesses. Consider the witness of Mother Teresa. She spent her life treating Continue reading
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Shea Week Nine
That’s not to say that we won’t have quirky charismatic leaders in an apostolic age. The church needs to be ready for some energetic messiness if she wants to remain alive and capture the wider culture. Because the age of Christendom is no more, church administrators should probably not waste too much time trying to Continue reading
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Shea Week Eight
Practices that incarnate the Christian vision The world is somewhat blind to the spiritual reality that is actually more real than what the world sees. So part of our mission is to have the spiritual world become a living force in our minds and manifested in our lives. We have to become those witnesses that Continue reading
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Divine Mercy
Today is the last day in the Octave of Easter. Like the last day in the Octave of Christmas, this day has taken on a larger title. Whereas on January 1st we celebrate both the end of the Octave of Christmas and the feast of Mary Mother of God, today we celebrate both the end Continue reading
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The First Word 2025
Good Friday 1st Word Jesus was led along with two criminals to be crucified. When they came to the Place of the Skull, as it was called, they crucified him there and the criminals as well, one on his right and the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not Continue reading
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Shea Week Seven
Practices that incarnate the Christian vision The world is somewhat blind to the spiritual reality that is actually more real than what the world sees. So part of our mission is to have the spiritual world become a living force in our minds and manifested in our lives. We have to become those witnesses that Continue reading
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Shea Week Six
We see inside the Catholic Church today some of the tensions that would naturally arise between a component of the church that was nostalgically looking for a return to Christendom or foolishly thinking that nothing really had changed and everything was fine versus a component of the church that is already adopting an apostolic strategy. Continue reading
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Shea Week Five
The author introduces a term “imaginative vision” that he says is a set of assumptions and a way of looking at things especially with regard to moral matters and spiritual matters that is largely taken for granted rather than argued for. As a holistic way of seeing things, it is usually secured by a religion Continue reading
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