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Catholic Life Homily Pro Life
October 7, 2012 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
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September 1, 2012 by deaconharold | 2 Comments on Watch “Authentically Free at Last” on EWTN!
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 […]
Catholic Life
August 23, 2012 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 Life Sacraments
August 3, 2012 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
July 19, 2012 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
June 15, 2012 by deaconharold | 8 Comments on The Mass in Sacred Scripture
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 […]
January 1, 2012 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
December 24, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
November 23, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
October 28, 2011 by deaconharold | 1 Comment on For All The Saints
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 […]
Catholic Life Male Spirituality Sacraments
October 1, 2011 / September 15, 2019 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
September 11, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
September 5, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
“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 […]
Catholic Life Homily
July 22, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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, […]
July 8, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]
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July 1, 2011 by deaconharold | Leave a Comment
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 […]