Action Item: Reflect on how it is more important to obey God than men.

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If God knows the future, do we really have free will? And if obedience means submitting to a higher law, does that make us less free? Philosophers and theologians from Socrates to St. Augustine to St. Thomas Aquinas have wrestled with these questions for centuries.

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When we pray "Thy will be done" in the Lord’s Prayer, do we really mean it? Jesus taught us these words, but He also lived them perfectly by submitting to the Father’s will even in suffering.

In this video, we explore what it means to trust God’s will, why obedience leads to true freedom, and h...

Action Item: Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you today.

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Who is the Holy Spirit? How does the Spirit work in our lives and in the life of the Church? Why is it so important that we know and love him?

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There is an evil one and he desires to destroy us. The evil one is alive today. Although we do not need to be obsessed with the evil one, we need to be aware that he exists. The evil one is active in three areas; the world, the flesh, and the devil. WE see images of the evil one in the very begin...

Action Item: Reflect on how judging makes it harder for you to be loving.

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Discussing moral issues with family and friends can be a challenge in a culture strongly promoting the idea that there is no objective truth. Speaking from a wealth of personal experience, renowned author and theologian Dr. Edward Sri provides 5 "keys" to enable Christians to oppose with logic an...

Fr. Mike Schmitz is one of the leading Catholic speakers in the Church today. Fr. Mike tackles four very difficult topics in this exceptional presentation: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Listen to this talk and begin to answer the question: "What happens when I die?"

Action Item: Reflect on how nothing can separate you from God and God's love but your sin.

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If your child was doing something that you knew was harmful to them, even possibly fatal, would it bother you? It would be any parent’s greatest heartache. Before we ask what sin is, and without even talking about heaven and hell, we need to ask, why is sin bad for me and my life right now. Or in...

Confession (also known as the Sacrament of Reconciliation) is a sacrament where Catholics receive forgiveness for their sins, and restores them to life in Christ and the Church. Priests have the power to forgive sins as Jesus did in the Scriptures. Through the healing grace of this sacrament, we ...

Action Item: Know that by obeying God you become more free and have more life.

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Why is freedom SO important to us? The catechism reminds us in paragraph 1731 “Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life.” Freedom isn’t being ...

Do you ever feel controlled by your emotions? As human persons we have these two strong powers: the power to think and the power to feel. But this brings up a third very strong component of the human person: our free will. So the question we’re left with is: how will you use your free will to act?

Action Item: Reflect on how knowledge of who God is gives you faith that unlocks Heaven.

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Jesus said the most important commandment is this: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul.” He went on to say the second is to love your neighbor as yourself.

The first three commandments are about the most important thing: The Love of God.

The love that God desires f...

A classic Italian movie re-mastered and re-released to celebrate the canonization in 2025 of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925). 

Frassati was a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family who turned from a life of privilege to one devoted to worki...