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Faith

SHARING the CHRISTMAS GIFT

Christmas is a time of giving. It is the celebration of the greatest gift of all: Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given to us at his birth on Christmas day. One of the ways we celebrate that great gift Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 25, 2016 ago
Ethics

COOPERATION with EVIL

To “cooperate with evil” sounds like a horrible thing to do—and it can be. But some cooperation with evil is inevitable and unavoidable for almost everyone. The reason for this is that human beings are inherently social creatures. We live Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 18, 2016 ago
Faith

PRAYING for MIRACLES

People faced with dire circumstances often pray to God for miracles. The patients in the hospitals I serve, along with their families and loved ones, frequently offer such prayers. In the church of St. Catherine of Siena, where I live Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 11, 2016 ago
Healthcare

BEING ANGRY with GOD

“I am angry with God” I often hear this from patients in the hospitals. They are expressing disappointment, the feeling that God has let them down. It may be a woman who has prayed to God for healing and the Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 4, 2016 ago
Faith

FACING ILLNESS and DARING to HOPE

For he assumed at his first coming the lowliness of human flesh, and so fulfilled the design you formed long ago, and opened the way to eternal salvation, that, when he comes again in glory and majesty and all is Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 27, 2016 ago
Faith

CARE for the SICK and REIGN with CHRIST the KING

I was ill and you cared for me. (Matt 25:36) So the king will say, seated on his glorious throne with all his angels in attendance and all the nations assembled before him: some on his right and some on Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 20, 2016 ago
Faith

EXCELLENT MINISTERS of HOLY COMMUNION: PART II

The virtues that characterize excellent ministers of Holy Communion was the subject of our last reflection. We considered the virtue of religion, by which human beings render fitting reverence to God, and also adoration, an exterior act of religion by Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 13, 2016 ago
Faith

EXCELLENT MINISTERS of HOLY COMMUNION: PART I

One of the most important parts of Catholic health care ministry is the administration of Holy Communion. This much needed ministry and sacred charge is carried out by bishops, priests, and deacons who, by virtue of their ordination, serve as Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsNovember 6, 2016 ago
Ethics

ETHICS as RESTORING the IMAGE of GOD

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his great Summa Theologica, begins his treatment of ethics with the Christian understanding that human beings are created in the image of God. Following Saint John Damascene, he observes that human beings image God most especially Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 30, 2016 ago
Ethics

DOING GOOD while PERMITTING EVIL

For human beings, doing good means choosing a good moral object for the sake of a good end. If a man chooses something morally bad as a means to achieving something morally good, his action is bad altogether. Likewise, if Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 23, 2016 ago
Ethics

DOING GOOD and AVOIDING EVIL

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. This is the first principle of ethical human action as articulated by Saint Thomas Aquinas, who relies on the classical wisdom of Aristotle and represents much of Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 16, 2016 ago

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