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- In the Gospel, Punctuation Makes All the Difference.
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- How Do You Restore Sacred Music? A Diocesan Directive Would Help.
- Why Does Christ Say His Yoke Is Easy?
- Three Reasons Why Catholic Classical Education is a Tough Sell
- How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
- Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
- Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
- Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!
- Feasting and Easter
- Did you know that our Lord’s death was a miracle?
- Father let this chalice pass from me
- Did Jesus Really Become Sorrowful?
- Is There Such a Thing as Catholic Music?
- Is the Four-Hymn Mass What the Church Really Wants?
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Category Archives: Augustine
Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
Now I know that there are many of you who are just naturally charitable. You easily empathize with the suffering of others and you have a spontaneous instinct to do anything you can to help others carry their crosses and … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Augustine, liberal education, Newman, Sacred Doctrine
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, John Henry Newman, knowledge and virtue, Mother Teresa
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Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
Every couple of years I have the opportunity to teach a course on the Ten Commandments to High School seniors and juniors. I always try to start the course with a one-question pop quiz that looks like this: Write down the … Continue reading
Did Jesus Really Become Sorrowful?
See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile… O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: Thus Jeremiah laments at the time of the Babylonian captivity, nonetheless, … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Augustine, Catena Aurea, Sacred Doctrine, Uncategorized
Tagged Aquinas, Augustine, Hillary of Poitiers, Jerome, Palm Sunday, passion, Propassion
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The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well: Who Were Those Five Husbands?
The Gospel for the third Sunday of Lent offers a special little gem for the classically minded church-goer. As Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well, He tells her that the water in the well will only bring … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, Catena Aurea, classical education, Uncategorized
Tagged Gary Michuta, jacob's well, samaritan woman
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