By Our Faith In Action® on April 16, 2010
Oakland Athletics minor league prospect Grant Desme was on fire in 2009. But with his chances of being a major league player now as real and close as the smell of his leather glove, Grant Desme shocked the baseball world…
Posted in All Lessons, Sports | Tagged baseball, calling, choice, christ, Church, discernment, featured, Featured Stories, grant desme, major league, oakland athletics, priest, religious, Sports, vocation |
By Susan Joy Bellavance on November 17, 2009
The X-Games™ have always been the place where over-the-edge athletes throw down adrenaline-pumping stunts that blow the minds of spectators. But a few of these dare-devils have been raising an uncomfortable stir…
Posted in All Lessons, Sports | Tagged accident, bike, Brian Deegan, christ, Church, courage, crash, cross, death, dirtbike, extreme, featured, Featured Stories, motocross, mulisha, rebel, Sports, stunts, suffering, X-Games, x-treme, xgames, xtreme |
By Kimberly Baker on May 18, 2009
When the news broke last month that the captain of an American cargo ship had been captured by pirates, it is likely that many people didn’t realize how dangerous and terrifying that really was.
Posted in All Lessons, Horror, Issues, Politics | Tagged christ, Church, courage, cross, featured, Featured Stories, good friday, hope, Life, Movie, Movies, Politics, suffering, tragedy, war |
By Alex Kubik on April 10, 2009
Fr Jason Smith gave us this awesome Podcast on the Passion of Christ… Check it out…
Posted in Podcasts | Tagged christ, cross, good friday, passion, seven last words |
By Genevieve Yep-Pollack on April 5, 2006
A doubt can be powerful. The devil used it against Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. He tried to make them doubt that God loved them. It worked. We’re paying for it. The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown, may not be as smart a hoax as the devil’s lie in the garden, but it has confused many people.
Posted in All Lessons, Horror, Movies | Tagged Actor, christ, Church, Dan Brown, DaVinci, featured, Featured Stories, History, hope, Movie, Movies, Pope |
By Fr. Rory O'Toole, LC on February 12, 2004
We like to think that we are really grown up when we can do our own thing. Jesus Christ challenges that assumption. Obedience to God is where the real power lies. It is a different kind of power: the power to set men free.
Posted in All Lessons, Movies | Tagged christ, courage, cross, Featured Stories, good friday, Movie, Movies, obedience, passion, suffering |
By Alex Kubik on February 11, 2004
Everyone knows Jesus is all about love, but all he does in “The Passion” is suffer. In the Garden of Gethsemane, his anxiety and fear press him so intensely that he sweats blood. Is that loving?
Posted in All Lessons, Movies | Tagged christ, cross, Featured Stories, Movie, Movies, passion |
By Alex Kubik on February 10, 2004
Let’s take a look at some of the manifestations of evil in “The Passion of the Christ” and what the characters’ interaction with evil shows us about temptation, sin, death, and salvation.
Posted in All Lessons, Horror, Movies | Tagged christ, cross, Featured Stories, Movie, Movies, passion |
By Alex Kubik on February 9, 2004
The Pontius Pilate of “The Passion of the Christ” is a more multi-dimensional man than traditionally portrayed in film. Not just a mean-spirited bureaucrat, he is an all-too-human proxy for modern man. Sadly, we may see a little of Pilate in ourselves.
Posted in All Lessons, Movies | Tagged christ, cross, Movie, Movies, passion |
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