Tag: Bible

“O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and thou wilt not hear? Or cry to thee ‘Violence!’ and thou wilt not save?  Why dost thou make me see […]

Leaving today for Australia. Here is the preview video for my Year of Faith Australian Tour (October 11-23, 2012): The Tour Dates (click on the event for details): October 11-12: […]

The Church speaks clearly and unambiguously about the dignity of human life, yet we live in a secular world that exposes us to a variety of ideas that are incompatible […]

Society views “freedom” as the ability to do whatever we want. In Authentically Free at Last, hosts Gloria Purvis, Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers and Damon Owens show how society mistakes freedom […]

Martha Fernandez-Sardina, Director of the Office of Evangelization in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, sat down with Deacon Harold to discuss the upcoming Year of Faith, which starts October 11, […]

Catholic Apologist extraordinaire Father Mitch Pacwa, S.J., Ph.D., a popular Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) personality and host of numerous series, including EWTN Live, Threshold of Hope, and the Open […]

One of the world’s foremost Dominican theologians, a prolific author and host of numerous Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) series, Father Brian Mullady, O.P., S.T.D., has published the following review […]

The Mass in Sacred Scripture Throughout the history of the Church, the liturgy has been revised and updated so that the expression of the Church’s worship may reflect the Spirit-filled […]

On this first day of the New Year, at a time when we remember the past with a sense of thankfulness (or relief!) and look forward to the future with […]

Where do we find God?  On that very first Christmas night, the shepherds, while tending their sheep in the cold and the dark, “are addressed by an angel who shines […]

Psalm 138 I thank you, Lord, with all my heart, you have heard the words of my mouth. In the presence of the angels I will bless you. I will […]

A pirate, a vampire, and Cyclops from the X-Men.  These are a few of my favorite costumes I wore as a kid on Halloween. Halloween has experienced an increasingly virulent […]

I receive so many requests for advice about discerning a call to the diaconate that I thought it would be beneficial to share my thoughts on vocational discernment with those […]

The terrorist attacks that occurred on American soil ten years ago remind us that we live in a world of eclipse; in a world consumed by darkness—the darkness of drought […]

“If any one will not work, let him not eat.  For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.  Now such persons […]

On a flight from Minneapolis to Portland earlier this year, I sat next to an airline pilot who was making his way home to Alaska.  We struck-up a conversation and, […]

A review of the book, It Doesn’t End Here: An Amazing Journey of Faith and Forgiveness by Dawn Marie Roeder “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it […]

A few years back, I was delighted to hear that some Notre Dame friends of mine were pregnant with their fifth child.  But my joy quickly turned to sorrow when […]

Shortly after the twins were born, I spent one of my many sleepless nights thinking about how my life has changed since the day I met my wife: how I […]

In the Scriptures, the number “forty” is derived from the number of gestational weeks in a pregnancy and symbolically represents periods of trial, testing, and waiting.  The biblical use of […]

The key to understanding the rich blessings of the Beatitudes is acknowledging our dependence on God and saying, “Yes” to Christ’s invitation to intimate, personal, loving and life-giving communion.  And […]