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Daily Reflections — October 30, 2025
Action Item: Reflect on how nothing can separate you from God and God's love but your sin.
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October 30, 2025 | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
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Why Is Sin Bad?
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...
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How are sins forgiven through the Sacrament of Confession
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 ...
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Daily Reflections — October 23, 2025
Action Item: Know that by obeying God you become more free and have more life.
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October 23, 2025 | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
Watch Dr. Tim Gray's Daily Reflections here: https://app.formed.org/app/collections/121221
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The Most Common Misconception People Have about Freedom
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 ...
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The Relationship Between Choice, Emotion, and Logic
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?
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Daily Reflections — October 16, 2025
Action Item: Reflect on how knowledge of who God is gives you faith that unlocks Heaven.
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October 16, 2025 | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
Watch Dr. Tim Gray's Daily Reflections here: https://app.formed.org/app/collections/121221
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This is the Most Important Relationship in your Life
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...
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Pier Giorgio Frassati: If I Didn't Have Love | Trailer
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...
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Daily Reflections — October 9, 2025
Action Item: Seek after the Holy Spirit.
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October 9, 2025 | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
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What Do You Seek? | The Search | Episode 1
To offer The Search at your parish, visit our parish webpage which includes a free coordinator manual. Purchase The Search guides and journal at Catholic.Market/the-search/.
In Episode 1, we open hearts with a look at the question “what do you seek?” What is that deep longing in our hearts a...
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What it means to be transformed by the Holy Spirit
Fire purifies and transforms. We can see this dynamic at work in both pottery making… and the Holy Spirit’s role in our lives. The Holy Spirit is often described and depicted as fire- and like fire, takes one thing and makes it another. In pottery making, clay is cast into fire, and transformed i...
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Daily Reflections — the Guardian Angels — October 2, 2025
Action Item: Reflect on how the joy of the Lord and the Word of God give us strength for the journey.
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October 2, 2025 — Guardian Angels | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
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Why the Saints Still Matter Today
What can the lives of the Saints teach us about following Christ today? In this episode of Practicing Catholic, we explore why the Saints are more than distant historical figures—they are models, guides, and spiritual “big brothers and sisters” who show us how to grow in holiness.
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Who Are the Angels?
Dr. Ben Akers sits down with Dr. Mark Miravalle, Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, to discuss the angels. What is an angel? What are the choirs of angels? How do we engage with our guardian angels?
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Choirs of Angels, Archangels, & Guardian Angels | Angels & Saints | Episode 4
How do we know angels exist, and where do we learn about them? What are the different types of angels? How do we relate to our guardian angels? Join Dr. Elizabeth Klein and Taylor Kemp to dive into these questions and more.
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Daily Reflections — September 25, 2025
Action Item: Examine if you put God above everything else.
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September 25, 2025 | Daily Mass Readings
Start your day with God's Word by listening to the Catholic Mass readings. Sign up to receive these videos with reflections from Dr. Tim Gray directly to your inbox by visiting https://daily.formed.org.
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Chapter 11: #1: Keep First Things First
Do you, as a parish staff, keep Jesus at the center? Are you praying regularly and praying together? Chris discusses why this is the first and most vital tip.