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The Catechism in a Year – Day 361 – The Kingdom and Will of God

When we pray for God’s Kingdom to come and God’s will to be done, we are asking for the final coming of the reign of God and for his plan of salvation to come to fruition. This petition is most powerfully expressed in the Mass. Fr. Mike reminds us that anticipating Christ’s return should inflame our hearts to continue our mission here on earth and to carry out God’s will with perseverance. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2816-2827.

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The Catechism in a Year – Day 289 – Family, Society, and the Kingdom

While family is important, the Catechism states, “The first vocation of the Christian is to follow Jesus.” This means that parents should support Christ’s call for their children. Fr. Mike explains that when we deny Jesus or his teachings for the sake of our families, we are making an idol of the family. We also learn the duties of civil authorities. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2232-2237.

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Minute Meditation – I Found God in You

We are all, whether we realize it or not, living symbols of the presence of God in the world. By who we are and how we act we can either build up or tear down the kingdom of God. God has chosen to act through us humans, first through God’s son, Jesus Christ, and then through all the members of Christ’s Mystical Body. That God is alive and well is most evident in those who live through, with and in God. No greater compliment could be given a man or a woman than that someone should say, “I found God in you.”

— from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM

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Saint of the Day – March 25th – Saint Dismas

St. Dismas (1st c.) is the name Church tradition has given to the “Good Thief,” one of the two criminals who were crucified alongside Jesus Christ on Good Friday. All we know about St. Dismas is what is mentioned of him in the Gospels: “Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us.’ The other [St. Dismas] however, rebuking him, said in reply, ‘Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.'” Then St. Dismas, as an expression of his faith in Christ as the Messiah, said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus replied to St. Dismas, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:39-42). The feast day of St. Dismas is March 25.

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The Bible in a Year – Day 201 – Keys to the Kingdom

Fr. Mike focuses on Isaiah 22 today and explains how the role of the pope in the Catholic Church goes all the way back to this important chapter in Isaiah. We learn that Jesus himself instituted the papacy by making Peter his ‘al-habbayit, the one over the household who holds the keys to the kingdom when the king is away. Today’s readings are Isaiah 21-22, Nahum 3, and Proverbs 10:29-32.

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