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Letting Go of the Self We Created: Be Closer to God
23+ hour, 29+ min ago (34+ words) Surrendering the Self: The ego is often understood as pride, but perhaps it is something deeper: the identity we create from our memories …...
Her Mother Died on Christmas Day. Then She Heard God’s Call—and Met Jesus in the Eucharist
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (727+ words) The damp heat of Tampa, Florida, was supposed to bring relief to her failing joints, but for twenty-four-year-old Sister Briege McKenna, it felt like an endurance test. Her young body was trapped in the agonizing grip of severe rheumatoid arthritis,…...
???There is no secret in what God can do.??? Canaries man reaches 101
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (225+ words) Joseph Gordon Marquis of Canaries celebrated his 101st birthday today, marking more than a century of a life shaped by family, faith, hard work and a relatively simple lifestyle. Marquis is the father of seven children and has 19 grandchildren and two…...
FR. VOGEL: Appreciate and create beauty in the world
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (269+ words) Truth, goodness and beauty. Plato, Augustine and Aristotle considered these the Three Transcendentals. This means they are the ultimate properties of being. As Catholics, we believe that God is being itself and the thing that all other being is dependent…...
Before the World Knew Her Name: What Mary’s Birth Teaches Us About Human Life
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (620+ words) Today, the Church celebrates the birth of a little girl whose arrival passed almost entirely unnoticed by the wider world. By Amy Servais, September 8, 2026 – EWTN Great Britain Before the world knew her name, God knew Mary. Before anyone could understand…...
The gift that was never meant for you alone
5+ day, 45+ min ago (473+ words) Applications for the Archdiocese’s next Called and Gifted intake close this week. Every baptised Catholic has been given a gift by the Holy Spirit and it was never meant for them alone. That conviction has shaped nearly three decades of…...
Walking with Mary, on an Assumption pilgrimage to Parramatta
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (451+ words) Pilgrims gathered at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents in Kellyville recently to begin a special journey of faith to St Patrick’s Cathedral in Parramatta. The pilgrimage, on Saturday, 15 August 2026, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,…...
The Nativity of Mary: A Gift in God’s Plan of Salvation
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (221+ words) Mary’s holiness is therefore never independent of Christ. What the Church believes about Mary is inseparable from what it believes about Christ. Her entire existence points beyond herself to her Son. She is not another redeemer alongside Christ, but the…...
Faith & Values: First the reckoning, then the renewal
1+ week, 2+ day ago (673+ words) I have long admired the American Tibetan-Buddhist writer and nun Pema Chödrön. I find that she teaches about the unpleasant realities of life with empathy and clarity, yet in as realistic a way as you could imagine. She is a…...
Nothing Can Separate Us
1+ week, 4+ day ago (150+ words) Today, reflect on the incredible power of the words from Romans 8:38–39. Today, reflect on the incredible power of the words from Romans 8:38–39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future…...