After carving out time in your daily schedule to pray, the task at hand remains daunting for many of us. Sure we may have 30 minutes when we can pray every day, but that will do us no good if we don’t know how to pray! [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Before I start, let me say one thing: […]
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As I began to dig deeper into the reality of spiritual warfare, I put myself on a quest to find the best resources. Providentially, I was given a book by a fellow parishioner that I now use every day in my fight against Satan: the Manual for Spiritual Warfare by Paul Thigpen. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] It has
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It is quite easy in the Pro-Life movement to only think of political activism, passing legislation, supporting pro-life politicians and holding up signs in front of an abortion facility. We forget that Satan is the one lurking in the shadows and he is the one who is counseling the woman in a crisis pregnancy that it
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To conclude our series on the armor of God as described by St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, Paul transitions from his description of the “armor of God” and beseeches the community for prayers. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] He begins by urging the Ephesians to “Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer
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As we start this new year, let us return to our series on the armor of God and explore what St. Paul was writing about when he urged the Ephesians to “put on the whole armor of God.” While there are many similarities between Roman military armor and the divine armor, the image St. Paul utilizes
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As we continue to delve deeper into our series on the Armor of God as featured in Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, this week we start to examine the specific pieces of armor that St. Paul references and compare it to a Roman centurion’s armor. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Photo by Matthias Kabel (Wikipedia)[/featured-image] While we will see
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Continuing our series on the Armor of God featured in Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, this week we take into account how the Christian community at Ephesus was honestly afraid of the dark spiritual powers around them. The pagan cults were very active and they saw on a daily basis the power of the
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