Quote “The really important thing is to love religious life, to love your own vocation. … (Religious) life isn’t for weirdos. It’s just ordinary. It just happens that the Lord becomes everything to you.” | Sister Barbara Sweeney, vocations director of the Society of the Sacred Heart, which last year saw three women enter the […]
Manaolana | Are sacred tattoos an improper exhibition or fitting expression of faith?
Stuart Randell poses in front of his Sacred Tattoos parlor in Fremantle, Western Australia, Sept. 3. Randell’s unusual service offers designs centered on religious themes. Randell, a Catholic who has been a tattooist for 20 years, says tattoos can also be part of the healing process in people’s lives. (CNS photo/Matthew Biddle, The Record) PERTH, […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Did Mary have any other children?
YOUCAT: No. Jesus is the only son of Mary in the physical sense. [CCC 500, 510] I volunteer at my parish in our middle school youth ministry, and at a recent youth night one of the teens asked if Jesus had any brothers. Great question! Mary was a teen herself when she had Jesus, so […]
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Lumen Gloriae
I was asking God what I should write about and I was drawn to the “Concise Dictionary of Theology.” I found the entry “Lumen Gloria” (Light of Glory), which refers to the opening of our “eyes” to the beatific vision, God in all of his splendor “face to face.” St. Aquinas defined the beatific vision […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Sept. 27, 2013
Quote “I prayed, and Jesus was the first to show up. What else am I going to do?” | Tom Leopold, a comedy writer who last year was spurred by a family crisis to join the Catholic Church. Leopold, who was born a Jew, has since co-written a one-man show called “A Comedy Writer Finds […]
Manaolana | Makana’s helpful hints: Adiante Part III — Serve
Toward the end of his World Youth Day homily in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis said, “the life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.” He then quoted St. Paul, “I have made himself a slave to all, that I might win the more” (1Cor 9:19) to show us, […]
Manaolana | Sidebar: Sept. 13, 2013
Quote “He found the presence of God everywhere, in all things. Nothing crushed him. His limitless charity is a model for the Year of Faith.” | Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucharest on Monsignor Vladimir Ghika, who was beatified Aug. 31 in Romania’s capital. Ghika was 80 when he was tortured to death in 1954 by […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: How is God’s grace related to our freedom?
YOUCAT:* “God’s grace is freely bestowed on a person, and it seeks and summons him to respond in complete freedom. Grace does not compel. God’s love wants our free assent.” [CCC 2001-2002, 2022] A few weeks ago, I participated in my parish’s catechist retreat. Our pastor, Sacred Hearts Father Richard McNally, facilitated the day. The […]
Manaolana | Lisa’s catechism corner: Why is there nevertheless injustice?
YOUCAT*: “All men have the same dignity, but not all of them meet with the same living conditions. In cases where injustice is man-made, it contradicts the Gospel. In cases where men have been endowed by God with different gifts and talents, God is asking us to rely on one another: in charity one should […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: The art of saying no
Somewhere along the line, as college-admission rates plunged and smartphones proliferated, “busy” became code for “important.” We got the sense that doing more means doing better. We fed into the flattery, the idea that a busy person is in demand — qualified, experienced, needed, loved. The person with the fullest calendar wins. Even our social […]
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