What is Truth? John 18:38

Truth, what is it? The definition of 'truth' is 'opposite of error'. Truth means it is conformable to fact. It is correct. Truth in action, is when the human conscience agrees with the intellect. Truth is 'ONE'. There can be only one truth, Jn 17:17-23. Any variation in the one truth is not truth at all, but error. Truth is a person. Jesus Christ...

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We are Catholic and are Proud of it...

"Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart... When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name."Saint Pacian of Barcelona, Letter to Sympronian, 375 A.D.. "Always remain close to the Catholic...

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How to be a good Catholic!

Here are some very basic obligatory rules that all Catholics should know. However, some Catholics are either ignorant of them, or knowingly fail to abide by them. *Attend Mass every week. To deliberately miss Mass on Saturday vigil or on Sunday, is a mortal sin. *Attend Mass on Holy Days of obligation. We are obligated to do so on certain...

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Catholic... What does it mean?

Catholic...  Q. Where did the word originate?A. It comes from the Greek word Katholikos, which was later Latinizedinto Catholicus. Q. What is the meaning of the word?A. It means 'Universal', which in itself means, 'of or relating to, or affectingthe entire world and all peoples therein'. It means, all encompassing,comprehensibly broad,...

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Does the Catholic Church have an official stance on speaking in tongues?

Question: Some of my Pentecostal friends believe that speaking in tongues is a sign that you are “saved.” Does the Catholic Church have an official stance on speaking in tongues? I don’t believe that the Catholic Church has an official stance on speaking in tongues. In recent years its approach to this phenomenon seems to have been one of cautious acceptance, with an emphasis on the “cautious.”Speaking in tongues (also known as “glossolalia,” from the Greek word “glossa” meaning tongue or language) has been part of Catholic experience at two...

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Accept Your Weaknesses

The following article is originally posted by and credited to Bro. Bo Sanchezhttp://bosanchez.ph/accept-your-weaknesses/ Bo Sanchez 11March2013         This will be short. Let me begin with one of my favorite stories… On her way home, a woman was walking on the sidewalk.  She saw a parrot in a pet shop window. ...

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Original Sin, Again and Again

The following article is originally posted and credited to catholic.com. http://www.catholic.com/blog/todd-aglialoro/original-sin-again-and-again Todd Aglialoro April 29, 2013 It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord,but you’re gonna have to serve somebody. -Bob Dylan Let’s play a little game. I’ll give you four news items and you tell...

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The TV is my Shepherd (a Parody)

Have you noticed that you seemed incomplete each day if you can not facebooking, twitting and surfing for personal gratification? I think you need to examine yourself. Now imagine that you still don't have internet nor anything associated with this "e-master". What you have is your dearest TV and got hooked! (A parody on Psalm 23, in a homily broadcast...

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Who has more Authority? The Bible or the Church?

Every time we hear a truth, like Mary's Assumption for instance, some immediately ask "Where is it in the bible" ? It is understandable we are looking for an authority to validate such claims. But my question is, which authority is the Court of final appeal in confirming Christian Truth? The Church or the Bible? If you say the Bible, you are...

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APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION, BY POPE PIUS XII

 APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OFPOPE PIUS XII MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUSDEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTIONNovember 1, 1950 1. The most bountiful God, who is almighty, the plan of whose providence rests upon wisdom and love, tempers, in the secret purpose of his own mind, the sorrows of peoples and of individual men by means of joys that he interposes in their lives from time to time, in such a way that, under different conditions and in different ways, all things may work together unto good for those who love him.(1)2. Now, just like the present...

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