Wednesday, June 19, 2019010 Like an orchestra conductor leading a symphony of different sounds and harmonies, the Holy Spirit creates a masterpiece of unity and communion that extols God's love, Pope Francis said. In creating this harmony, the Holy Spirit "makes the church grow by helping it go beyond human limits, sins and scandal," the pope said June 19 during...
Tuesday, June 18, 20190171Reflecting on the story of the healing of the paralytic (Mk 2:1-12) brings out many lessons. It tells us about the forgiving power of God, but it also presents us with a model of an authentic act of friendship. Four men brought a paralytic to Jesus for healing. When they could not find a way to get into the room where Jesus was, they did...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019076On a recent Saturday afternoon, Emily Duke and a couple dozen of her second-grade classmates at St. Pius X Catholic School walked down the aisle of the parish church to receive their First Holy Communion.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019089I first came across the coined word “comm-YOU-nication” when reading the book How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes. She describes the word as a communication technique that emphasizes the YOU first, before the ME, in a conversation. According to her book, the ability to listen to the other person enhances effective interaction. She...
Monday, April 29, 2019044 Juan Carlos Hernández and his wife Maribel Rosero eagerly awaited Holy Saturday this year like no other. It was the couple’s daughters, Kerly, 14, and Katherin, 12, who helped their parents embark on a spiritual transformation that culminated on the Easter Vigil, when the couple received the Sacraments of Initiation and joined the...
Friday, April 12, 20190123One of the hardest virtues to practice is forgiveness. It’s even more difficult when we consider the different degrees of hurt and pain we have to endure when we are offended. The difficulty in forgiveness arises mostly because of human anger and resentment, which are often long-lasting in the human mind. These lingering feelings of...
Thursday, April 11, 20190165What does it mean to forgive? Is forgiveness essentially a negative and cancelling force, that is, something that ignores an injury? Or is it a positive and creative force, that is, something that adds to life? I think it’s probably both, but my sense is that we typically think only of the negative side. For example, it is popular to...
Friday, March 29, 2019038
By Michael Gresham
The Texas Catholic
For his birthday, James Hill hopes to get a fist bump from the bishop of the Diocese of Dallas.
He’ll soon get his chance.
Hill, a parishioner of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Rockwall, will join other Catholic faithful at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe on...
Thursday, March 28, 2019024Lent is just now building up steam and it is Spring already! Blossoms are abundant on the trees around our area which used to be called Fruitdale. The name was inspired by the many Czech families who settled in the southern part of Dallas county in order to be close to their new jobs and also close to Sunday dinner with their mothers...
Sunday, March 3, 20190250“What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.” These are the words of Charles Péguy, instigator, poet, soldier, Catholic. And they’re words which, for me, come to mind as we begin our Lent again.
