by Steve Ray on February 28, 2013
(If you leave comments below I’ll read them to your family and friends each day on the buses. Mention who you are writing the comments to :-) Everything went smooth with arrivals and as we begin our first day. It couldn’t have gone better. All three airlines came in on time and the buses pulled [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 27, 2013
Lent has a history and is biblically based. I wrote an article on Lent which was posted on the Verbum (Logos) Bible Study Software webpage. You can read it here.
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by Steve Ray on February 27, 2013
Mark 5:18–21 “And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. But he refused, and said to him, ‘Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 26, 2013
E-mail I received from St. Benedict Press: “Dear Steve: “As you know, questions regarding the process, history and meaning of papal resignations are of burning interest to Catholics right now. Popular author Thomas Craughwell addresses these questions in Popes Who Resigned, a fascinating new ebook from TAN. Craughwell spans 20 centuries to unveil fourteen unique [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 26, 2013
New post on “In the Light of the Law“ Betting on the conclave? by Dr. Edward Peters According to the (Old) Catholic Encyclopedia , in his bullum Cogit nos (21 March 1591), Pope Gregory XIV forbade under pain of excommunication all bets concerning the election of a pope, the duration of a pontificate, or the [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 25, 2013
I recently gave my talk “Swimming Upstream: Living and Proclaing the Faith in a Neo-pagan World.” It has been posted free for watching on their website http://www.franciscan.edu/News/2013/Ray-on-Evangelization/
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by Steve Ray on February 24, 2013
He explains his continuing service to the Church: Dear brothers and sisters, I hear this Word of God addressed to me in a special way during this moment of my life. Thank you! The Lord is calling me to “scale the mountain,” to dedicate myself still more to prayer and to meditation. But this does [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 22, 2013
St. Cyprian of Carthage (beheaded 257 AD) one hundred and fifty years before the New Testament writings were collected into one book called “The Bible”: “The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ He says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 21, 2013
Friday on Relevant Radio with Sean Herriott at 7 AM Eastern – “Feast Day of Chair of St. Peter” especially applicable with the current papal resignation. Friday on Ave Maria Radio with Teresa Tomeo at 9:15 AM Eastern, also discussing the Chair of Peter.
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by Steve Ray on February 21, 2013
World Youth Day Gets Global Facebook Page Communications Director Eager to Make Pope’s Message Accessible RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, February 21, 2013 (Zenit.org) – Facebook users who access the World Youth Day Rio ’13 page will now benefit from the global setting supplied by that social network. The page is available in 21 profiles, and [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 21, 2013
20 Brief Answers to 20 Questions ROME, February 20, 2013 (Zenit.org) – Benedict XVI’s renunciation has raised many questions, and not only in the Catholic world. Some of the questions are of a practical nature, while others regard more far-reaching doubts. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, has given several press [...]
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by JesseRay on February 17, 2013
I just pulled this out of our family archives…our family had the honor of speaking with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Year of Jubilee.
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by Steve Ray on February 17, 2013
This brings back fond memories of our morning meeting with Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome after he celebrated Mass at the German College in the Vatican. I was giving him my book and he signed a copy of his book for me. I was telling him that my endorsement was on the back of one of [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 16, 2013
New post by Dr. Ed Peters: What the pope can do, can’t do, might do, won’t do… Benedict XVI’s startling decision to act under a canonical norm (c. 332 § 2) that has been invoked only twice in its 700+ year lifetime (once in 1296 by Celestine V who wrote the law, and apparently by [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 15, 2013
And I agree with him. Read his article HERE.
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by Steve Ray on February 15, 2013
My wife has tears running down her cheeks and the grandkids are howling with laughter. This video has been viewed by over 16 million people – for a reason. It is clever, well produced and worth watching because laughter is good medicine (even during Lent :-)
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