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Why We Receive The Eucharist

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Laurika Nxumalo

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Recently, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco barred Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist because of being in support of abortion rights; she joined many other public figures who were previously barred from receiving communion because of their support of abortion rights. However, in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis said, “The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but a generous medicine and food for the weak.” The Eucharist... Read more

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The Rosary – The Great Prayer

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Laurika Nxumalo

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The Rosary as we have it today originated in the mid- to late fifteenth century, though legend has it that it first arose from St. Dominic, in the early thirteenth century, before falling into disuse. The Rosary was based on prayer traditions using multiple repetitions of the same prayer, at first the Lord’s Prayer, using knots on a rope to keep count. In ninth century Ireland, the laity began using a string of beads to keep count of the... Read more

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Called To Married Life

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Laurika Nxumalo

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The Catholic Church has seven sacraments that members of the Church receive at different stages of their lives. One of those sacraments is Holy Matrimony (marriage). What Are Sacraments? According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, ‘The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us’ (#1131). A sacrament`s essential purpose is “to give grace.” What kind of grace do the sacraments give? First and most... Read more

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The Notion Of Love

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Laurika Nxumalo

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THE NOTION OF LOVE “For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they... Read more

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Redemption Through the Sacrament of Reconciliation

Last updated on: October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Laurika Nxumalo

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The Sacrament of Reconciliation According to the Church The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “The new life received in Christian initiation has not abolished the frailty and weakness of human nature, nor the inclination to sin that tradition calls concupiscence, which remains in the baptized such that with the help of the grace of Christ they may prove themselves in the struggle of Christian life. This is the struggle of conversion directed toward holiness and eternal life to which... Read more

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