
Six words we hear at every Mass brought Carol Bannon to a new understanding of God’s love for His people.
Six words we hear at every Mass brought Carol Bannon to a new understanding of God’s love for His people.
Tommy Tighe explores why it’s hard for us to go along with God’s desire that all men be saved.
Melanie Jean Juneau argues that the biggest barrier to receiving the Love of God is the sin of egocentricity; we are centred on ourselves, not on Christ’s work on the cross.
What do the words, Duty and Salvation, Always and Everywhere mean for your life? Marya Jauregui considers the obligation to always give thanks to God.
When we find ourselves confronted by nameless adversaries, people and circumstances; when we fight valiantly; when we rage and cry and wail; when our own character is used to engage and defeat and bless us; when we are wounded and changed forever; when we wonder what the heck is going on, why it’s happening; and God does not answer us. What then? Sonja Corbitt shares how she wrestled with God and won.
“Why do we need salvation?” a college student sincerely asked. Sister Margaret Kerry answered, “We need salvation from our sins,” and then needed to define sin.
Bishop Robert Barron explains that the Church is best conceived, not as a congregation of like-minded people, not the”Jesus Christ society”, but rather as the prolongation of the Incarnation across space and time.
The cross is not only victorious, it is fruitful. It bore the fruit of salvation in the loving act of Christ but has kept bearing new fruit throughout the ages.
“I died and I clearly remember it,” Bernie told me after waking up from a six-week coma brought on by a massive heart attack and subsequent multiple organ failure. “I could see myself floating in the air, looking down at my body, and I could see my damaged heart.”
A fun way to sum up our Salvation with Mark Hart from Life Teen and a greatly simplified version you can use with youth.
Can Protestants and Catholics eat lunch together when the topic is salvation? Kay Hinckley shows us that yes, it’s possible.
We welcome new contributor Kimberly Cook, who contemplates how low the bar to heaven seems to be.