Be patient with yourself and others. Direct your thoughts to what is beautiful.

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YouTube skeptic Joe Schmid is here to make a shocking announcement. 

Ep. 593

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It’s Last Call! Christopher West is here to debunk common misconceptions around the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexual ethics and explain the beauty and wisdom behind what she actually has to say.

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THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

The...

RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

SIN IS CROUCHING

I got on social media yesterday. Harmless- just to post my daughter's birthday pictures. Then curiosity, then a night of algorithms, and then confession this afternoon. It was not the first time I have made that confession, and the priest did not act like it was.

Later that night I prayed, and I was thinking about something that is going to sound funny, so bear with me. I was thinking about how I have always been a sexual predator.

I know what that phrase does. We correlate it with the nasty stuff, with children. I am not saying ANY of that. Here is what I mean. Other than immediate family, I have never looked at a woman in a way that was not sexual. A brother in my men's group said the same thing out loud once and I have not been able to unhear it. Every woman I meet, I instantly size up on a scale of sexuality. I sat with that last night, with what a predatorial nature that is, and with what it looked like in my own life when I let it run free.

The scriptures always tie lust and sexual immorality...

Just out of curiosity, if your non-Catholic (never Catholic because you are a convert) adult child has a baby and appoints you godparent (in an unofficial secular sense, not in the Catholic sense), and asks you to have the child baptized in the Catholic Church, but will not participate in the baptism, can grandma/godmother still take the baby to be baptized since she has the parents' permission, but not their participation?

One more question. My husband wants to be cremated. We assume he will go before I do, and we guess he will go years before I pass way. Our idea is that he would be cremated and eventually his remains will be buried with me in my coffin. However, I have learned that Catholics aren't supposed to hang on to cremains. They need to be interned. What are my options if my husband passes away years before I do?