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Browsing Archive: November, 2015

How to Draw Your Children Back to the Church

Posted by Site Webmaster on Saturday, November 21, 2015,

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One of the more common heartaches people express to me is that their adult children no longer attend Mass or have any relationship with the Church. Many of these parents sent their children to Catholic School and brought them to Mass every week. Yet despite these efforts, many of these young adults were drawn away from the Church by the lure of the secular world, often during their college years or shortly thereafter.

It was typically not some d...


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The Difference Between a Spiritual Father and an Elder

Posted by Site Webmaster on Saturday, November 21, 2015, In : Byzantine Catholics 


By Archimandrite Paul Papadopoulos

Many times while talking about Christ we lose Christ, while we talk about the Cross we avoid our own personal cross, refusing to lift it and walk behind Christ. While we go to a spiritual father to reconcile with God through the Mystery of Confession we rather connect with the person of our spiritual father and we put the person of Christ on the margins of this relationship. This is wrong.

The work of the spiritual father is to lead the p...

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Why Does Jesus Tell Us to Use "Dishonest Wealth"?

Posted by Site Webmaster on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, In : OLP Newsline 

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There was a puzzling reference in Saturday morning's Gospel (Saturday of the 31st week in Ordinary Time) in which Jesus says,

I tell you, make friends for yourselves by your use of dishonest wealth, so that, when it fails, they will welcome you to eternal dwellings (Luke 16:9).

What does He mean by "dishonest wealth"?

The Greek expression (mamona tes adikias) is more literally translated as “mammon of unrighteousness.” Mammon is a Hebrew and Aramaic ...


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