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Parental Rights and Gender-Ideology

04-24-2022Weekly Reflection

The Church teaches in the Compendium of her social teaching the following:

239. The family has a completely original and irreplaceable role in raising children. The parents’ love, placing itself at the service of children to draw forth from them (“e-ducere”) the best that is in them, finds its fullest expression precisely in the task of educating. “As well as being a source, the parents’ love is also the animating principle and therefore the norm inspiring and guiding all concrete educational activity, enriching it with the values of kindness, constancy, goodness, service, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice that are the most precious fruit of love.” (Note: the word “education” comes from the Latin “educere” to lead forth.)

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“Jesus Christ descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead.”

04-17-2022Weekly ReflectionThe Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

125. What is the “hell” into which Jesus descended?

This “hell” was different from the hell of the damned. It was the state of all those, righteous and evil, who died before Christ. With his soul united to his divine Person Jesus went down to the just in hell who were awaiting their Redeemer so they could enter at last into the vision of God. When he had conquered by his death both death and the devil “who has the power of death” (Hebrews 2:14), he freed the just who looked forward to the Redeemer and opened for them the gates of heaven.

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If Our Sins Are Forgiven in Confession, Why Do We Get a Penance?

04-10-2022Weekly Reflection

Satisfaction is the final act which crowns the sacramental sign of Confession. The sacramental sign is the absolution of our sins by Jesus through His priest. The act, which the forgiven and absolved penitent agrees to perform after receiving absolution, is precisely called his penance. Making satisfaction is the third act of the penitent, after contrition for sins and the confession of sins. Absolution does not take away all the disorder sin has caused: harm to self and to neighbor. This must be healed in this life or in the life to come.

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The Seductive Lie

04-03-2022Weekly Reflection

One of the marks of the Evil One noted by our Lord and the teachings of the Church is the lie. However he’s a seductive-liar giving people the impression of truth and love for God and neighbor. God’s grace is required to unmask the lie and we are aided by the clear teaching of the Church in this regard.

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