St Peter has a warning for you today: “God resisteth the proud… be sober, be vigilant because the devil is on the lookout…humble yourselves therefore….” St Bernard, asked to list the four cardinal virtues, answered: “humility, humility, humility and humility” . And O. Hobart Mowrer once said, “You alone can do it, but you Read more …
Category: Reflection
WHY Series: The Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Sacred Heart is among the less familiar and less known of Anglican-Catholic devotional images. But its symbolism is profound and inspiring. As we marked the Feast of the Sacred Heart this week, here is a look at the explanation behind some of the features of the Sacred Heart. The flames The Sacred Heart most obviously brings Read more …
FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION
Party or Perish! Last Sunday featured an intense and shocking parable about our readiness, our fruitfulness, and our decision to accept and enter the Kingdom of God or not. The Lord has used the story of a rich man and a poor man named Lazarus. This parable is shocking and speaks to the great and Read more …
FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION
Heaven and Hell Today’s story in the gospel reading is about the rich man in Hell and the poor in Heaven. First of all, Jesus teaches here that heaven and hell are both real, literal places. Sadly, many preachers shy away from uncomfortable topics such as hell. Some even teach “universalism” – the belief that Read more …
WHY SERIES: Eucharist: The most cherished Gift
We celebrate the body and blood of Christ not as isolated objects of adoration but as food and drink, like the manna in the desert and the water brought forth from a rock. Jesus makes it very clear how we are to approach his body and blood: “If you do not eat the flesh of Read more …
FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION
GOD IS RICH AND MYSTERIOUS G.K. Chesterton once said that one of the reasons he believed in Christianity was because of its belief in the Trinity. If Christianity had been made up by human person, it would not have at its very center a concept that is impossible to grasp or explain: the idea that Read more …
WHY SERIES: Why shall we do Adoration?
Twelve Biblical Reasons for wanting to spend time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament 1. He is really there! 2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of His Infinite love for you! 3. The specific way that Jesus asks you to love Him in return is to spend Read more …
WHY Series: Why shall we do Adoration?
Adoration, also known as “benediction of the blessed sacrament” or “Eucharistic adoration” or simply “holy hour” is adoring or honoring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ. In a deeper sense, it involves “the contemplation of the Mystery of Christ truly present before us”. Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love. “In the sacred Host, Read more …
FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION
The Mission in the World On the morning of his resurrection, nearing the end of his earthly life, Jesus ordered the disciples back to Galilee where he had inaugurated his saving mission. The disciples are to begin where Jesus did, doing what Jesus did, but without geographical or temporal limits: their mission is to “all Read more …
The WHY Series: Special Prayers for Rogationtide
These prayers hold special focus today as our country and the world around us strive to “re-open” and revive our economies and businesses and work to resume our lives as God has created us to do – to His everlasting glory and praise. This is a small way to ask God for his blessing and Read more …