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November 01, 2023
How Good Is The Father?

Luke 12:32

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

John 1:12-13

“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”

Romans 5:8

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

1 Corinthians 8:6

"Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist."

1 John 3:1

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him."

Psalm 103:13

"As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him."

Proverbs 3:11-12

"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights."

Luke 15:20-24

"And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him."

1 John 1:9

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Psalm 68:5

"Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation."

Matthew 6:6

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:26

"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"

Matthew 26:53

“Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?”

John 14:13

“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

1 Peter 5:7

"Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."

James 1:17

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

Proverbs 3:5-6

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

Psalm 32:8

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you."

John 10:28-30

"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”

John 14:6

"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:26

"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

Romans 8:28

"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."

John 14:2-3

“In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”

Exodus 33:14

"And he said, 'My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.'"

Joshua 1:9

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

Jeremiah 23:23-24

"Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord."

Psalm 46:1

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

Matthew 23:9

"And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven."

Psalm 68:4-5

"Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation."

Psalm 89:26

"He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation."

Psalm 103:1

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!"

1 Chronicles 29:10

"Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: 'Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.'"

John 4:23

"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him."

1 Corinthians 8:6

"Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist."

Ephesians 1:3

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places."

Philippians 4:20

“To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

1 Peter 1:3

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."

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Day 5 of Advent

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...

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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 ...

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Even the Dicks
On nominative destiny, guardian angels, and the power in a name

You ever meet someone and think, yeah, that’s a Dick alright?

His name was Richard, but you know what I mean.

People have a way of growing into their names, as if the word were a quiet instruction the life eventually obeys. Some names are just labels. Others behave more like prophecies, half joke and half omen, and the life spends years catching up.

(My sincere apologies to every Karen out there. It’s not your fault.)

Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe it’s just our brains looking for patterns.

Still, names matter.

In an age that finds meaning in nothing, it only makes sense that our baby names eventually arrived at Malibu Barbie, Saga Blade, X Æ A-Xii, and a real human child named Techno Mechanicus. And yes, I looked them up. Those are all real names.

You can give your kid something he’ll be picked on for the rest of his life, or maybe, just maybe, you can point him toward something before he is old enough to know where he is going.

Naming was one of man’s first God-given tasks. Adam looked out over creation and named what he ...

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On Fulton Sheen, the NICU, aspiration, and learning that trust is not the same thing as knowing the ending.

God took me literally when I asked for some of Ezra’s suffering.

He said, “bet.”

Yesterday I went in to finally have the tumor taken out of my knee. They put me under, I vomited, aspirated stomach acid into my lungs, and they stopped the whole surgery.

So now the tumor remains undefeated, I’m coughing up bloody mucus, and I’m walking around the house checking my oxygen and using that stupid blow blow thing they give you for your lungs.

(The official name is an incentive spirometer. You suck in slow and deep and try to raise a little marker. I will not be calling it that.)

Meanwhile, my twelve-day-old son is still in the NICU recovering from…

aspiration.

Apparently aspiration is the family theme this month.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

This actually started a few weeks ago when I got on a plane carrying a suitcase full of Fulton Sheen icons and praying my very pregnant wife could manage to stay pregnant for another 48 hours.

She could not.

Well.

Sort of.

My wife Hortencia is an iconographer. She and her teacher had spent months on several icons of Fulton J. Sheen. There was no established pattern for Sheen they could copy, so it took prayer, research, practice, and nearly 150 hours of work. They vested him as an Eastern bishop, because he loved the Eastern Church.

One icon was for the Sheen Foundation and Museum in ...

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September 30, 2026

🔴 OCTOBER ROSARY CHALLENGE — MEN, LET'S GO 📿

Brothers,
October is the Month of the Holy Rosary. This is our month. The Church gives us 31 days to pick up the most powerful weapon in the arsenal — and we're going to use it.

⚔️ THE CHALLENGE
Goal: Pray a full Rosary every day in October. Minimum: At least 1 decade on the hard days — no excuses, no zeros.
That's 4 mysteries. 20 decades. 31 days. Let's finish October as better men than we started it.

📅 WHAT ARE THE MYSTERIES?
Rotate them through the week like this:
• Monday & Saturday — Joyful Mysteries
• Tuesday & Friday — Sorrowful Mysteries
• Wednesday & Sunday — Glorious Mysteries
• Thursday — Luminous Mysteries (added by St. John Paul II in 2002)
St. John Paul II wrote the Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae in October 2002, introducing five new mysteries called the Luminous Mysteries: the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, the Wedding at Cana, the Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the Transfiguration, and the Institution of the ...

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It's finally here! Jesus Our Refuge 🙌

It’s finally here! 

I’ve been pouring my heart into what I truly believe is an important book—Jesus Our Refuge (get here). It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever written, and my hope is that it helps you find peace and refuge in the heart of Jesus. 

Please consider getting a copy here and reviewing!

P.S. I don’t earn anything from this book. When I wrote it, I knew it had to reach far and wide, so I partnered with a publisher who believes in that mission. Every bit of the royalties I’d have received goes into a fund to give away one million copies for free.

 

 

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