A Head spinning Catholic teaching

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Eucharist, Faith, Life, Prayer, Religon, Salvation Apostle, appearances, Aware, bible, blood, Body, bread, Catholic, Catholics, Christians, concepts, creation, creations, creator, Death, disciples, doctrine, Does, Eucharist, Evangelicals, fact, Faith, father, food, From, Fundamentalists, gift, giver, glory, HEAD, heaven, himself, humiliation, Jesus, John, Just, Last, Life, Lord, manna, news, parable, Peter, Presence, punishment, read, Real, salvation, Savior, Self, Simon, spirit, Supper, the Holy Eucharist, True, truth, Twelve, VERY

The doctrine of the Real Presence asserts that in the Holy Eucharist, Jesus is literally and wholly present—body and blood, soul and divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists often attack this doctrine as "umbilical," but the Bible is forthright in declaring it (cf. 1 Cor. 10:16–17, 11:23–29; and, most forcefully, John … Continue reading A Head spinning Catholic teaching

Road to Redemption: How to Overcome Feeling Sorry for Yourself

May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Change, Education, Faith, Freedom, Improvement, Life, life coach, Love, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, Self, selfhelp, Works acceptance, action, actions, archive, attitudes, author, basket, bearer, blog, bones, Carnegie, christmas, cleaver, communion, Consider, Dale, desires, destruction, Emotion, energy, event, fact, failure, Faith, freedom, friend, gift, gifts, greatest, habit, human, imperfections, interaction, items, journal, keyboard, knowledge, learn, liberation, Life, Lord, magazine, mist, moment, moments, Nation, nature, needs, Notice, obligation, outlook, output, Overcome, pain, paper, participant, perfection, person, possibilities, pray, Prayer, preform, reaction, read, receiver, recipient, redemption, rejection, requirement, road, salvation, Self, Some, sorry, spirit, Thank, think, Through, ticket, times, trust, vessel, words, world, Yourself

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. -Dale Carnegie What can we do about this, how can we change our own outlook on our own life? How do we stop feeling sorry for ourselves, stopping the self-pity and self loathing? … Continue reading Road to Redemption: How to Overcome Feeling Sorry for Yourself

Overturned: A Lenten Reflection

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Eucharist, Faith, Lent, Life, Love, Mass, Prayer, Religon, Salvation abstinence, attention, benches, birds, Body, brother, Catholic, Catholics, christ, church, cloth, Corinthians, courts, Encyclopedia, Eucharist, food, Fridays, From, garment, himself, hypocrite, hypocrites, intake, Jesus, Last, Lenten, Life, Lord, Luke, matthew, meal, meat, money, neither, patch, Paul, penance, plank, Prayer, pride, purpose, reduction, reflection, robbers, room, Self, sins, SKIN, soul, souls, speck, spirit, Sposite, Supper, tears, Temple, temples, theology, times, toxins, Wednesdays, Wikipedia, wine, wineskins

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den … Continue reading Overturned: A Lenten Reflection

Are you the Fox: A Lenten Reflection

March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Death, Easter, Faith, Lent, Life, Mass, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, Works action, actions, agony, altar, bible, blog, blood, breath, Catholics, Centurion, christ, church, cooperation, creation, Death, demons, devil, Earth, Easter, Eucharist, Experience, Faith, Feel, Forgive, friends, garden, goal, grief, Harsh, heart, heaven, Herod, hill, humiliation, Jerusalem, Jesus, lady, Leave, Lenten, Liar, Lies, Life, Lord, Lords, love, luck, Luke, mass, moment, moments, Moreover, narrative, passion, persecution, Peter, Pharisees, Pilate, Place, Pontius, preparation, prophet, purification, reenactment, reflection, representation, resurrection, Sacrifice, sake, salvation, session, Simeon, sins, soul, Spend, spirit, streets, Supper, tears, thorns, times, truth, weapons, word, words

Image via Wikipedia 31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will … Continue reading Are you the Fox: A Lenten Reflection

Suffer the Children

February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 Paul Sposite brother(s), Catholic, Change, church, conservative, Conservative Catholics, dad, Death, Education, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Growing Up, liberal, Liberal Catholics, Life, Love, Media, Michigan, Mom, Politics, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, Self, sister(s), youth abel, bible, blood, brother, Cain, cancer, caretakers, cash, Chardon, children, Christians, church, crime, curse, Death, desires, detroit, dinner, direction, doctors, door, Douay, Earth, fathers, friends, generation, Genesis, girl, guardians, guidance, heaven, Jesus, keeper, kingdom, knee, Life, lifetime, listen, longer, Lord, mathew, michigan, money, murderers, Nation, Ohio, parents, penny, person, portions, punishment, punishments, reaction, responsibilities, Rheims, rules, Self, services, soccer, State, streets, suburbs, suffer, Sure, times, Verse, violence, Wade, Wanderer, Where, world, worth, youth

But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such. Mathew 19:14 (Douay-Rheims Bible) Yesterday was a sad day in Detroit, Michigan and Chardon, Ohio. (Select the city to read the stories) Our youth, our children have become murderers. Nothing … Continue reading Suffer the Children

Into your Arms, A Lenten Reflection

February 27, 2012February 27, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Death, Faith, Freedom, History, Lent, Prayer, Religon, Salvation acceptance, actions, adam, Amen, arms, calvary, choice, compassion, compliance, daisy, Death, Devine, dictatorship, didn, divine, downfall, father, feet, Fiat, freedom, freewill, fruit, garden, gift, gospel, great, greatest, himself, human, Into, Jesus, kingdom, Lenten, lessons, letter, Life, LIMBS, Lord, Luke, moment, mother, nature, parables, path, person, Peter, pride, reflection, road, salvation, sins, Sometimes, spirit, Sure, teachings, Temple, Through, times, tree, utterance, word, words

Today many people try to make Jesus out to be this hippy type of person who spoke softly and walked around with a smile on his face and a daisy in his hands. You know they type, the “Jesus Loves You” type. Sure, yes I know that Jesus loves me and I know that Jesus … Continue reading Into your Arms, A Lenten Reflection

Whitney and the 4 points

February 15, 2012February 15, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Death, Faith, Family, Friendship, Life, Love, Media, Mom, news, Prayer, Radio, Religon, Salvation, sister(s) addict, Bobby, Body, Brown, Catholic, compassion, creation, daughter, Death, depth, door, drug, Drugs, Earth, Entertainer, eulogies, evil, existence, Fourth, glory, greatest, Guard, heart, heaven, hell, Houston, human, Life, moment, news, peace, perfection, Point, prescription, presumptions, Purgatory, reports, road, Second, singer, song, soul, soundtrack, statement, symbol, system, talent, theology, Third, User, Where, Whitney, wonderment

First Point I, like many, was sadden to hear about Whitney Houston's death. Death, of anyone, is always a tragic and sad moment, Life that has ended always leaves someone sad, even the murder has loved ones. Yes, I am a child of the 80’s, I graduated in ‘84, so the soundtrack to my teenage … Continue reading Whitney and the 4 points

Questions of Force and Faith

January 6, 2012January 6, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, dad, Death, Faith, Family, Growing Up, Life, Love, Media, Mom, news, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, youth action, article, boundaries, children, church, concept, Death, degree, Faith, festival, force, friends, gangs, Gonzalez, halls, Jaime, Just, location, mercy, Mexico, officers, parents, Paul, pellet, places, plays, reports, soul, Sposite, street, think, Thru, tragedy, VERY, village, weapon, youth

The death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez has shaken this neighborhood along the U.S.-Mexico border, where parents already burdened by economic woes and street gangs are now faced with explaining the tragedy to their children. Making it especially hard: It remains unclear to his parents and investigators why Jaime — a drum major who danced in … Continue reading Questions of Force and Faith

Seeds of Success

June 28, 2011 Paul Sposite Catholic, Change, dad, Education, Ego, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friendship, Growing Up, Improvement, Life, Love, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, Self, selfhelp, youth Americas, August, Bill, blog, conference, creators, decisions, dyer, enjoyment, fact, father, impact, legacy, Life, Link, michigan, moment, money, Moyer, Over, presentation, purpose, recognition, Self, situations, team, theme, Wayne, weekend, world

Over the weekend I was camping on the west coast of Michigan, a nice 4 day weekend, with lots of time to read. And read I did.. I finished one book, a novel, and started another, a political, and finished a third, “Seeds of success” a father and son book on what matters most. I … Continue reading Seeds of Success

Characters of the Passion: A reading for Lent

March 21, 2011March 21, 2011 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Death, Faith, Lent, Life, Prayer, Religon, Salvation actions, advice, Barabbas, Beatitudes, befuddlement, betrayal, chapters, characters, christ, Christians, contempt, cross, culture, Dear, failure, Faith, fulton, Herod, Judas, Lenten, lesson, Lord, mindset, pain, passion, person, Peter, reader, times, Western, words, world, writer

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://anamericanpointofview.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/characters-of-the-passion-a-reading-for-lent/ Cover via Amazon I just finished the book, Characters of the Passion, by Fulton J. Sheen, one of two books I am read for Lent, the other is also a Sheen book, The Cross and the Beatitudes. If you have never read a Sheen book, I would recommend it, he is a gifted writer, … Continue reading Characters of the Passion: A reading for Lent

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A Head spinning Catholic teaching

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