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

Ben Franklin and Leadership

August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Leadership, selfhelp Account, action, actions, advent, america, American, arrival, articles, bases, basics, boat, british, Case, cell, communication, Commutation, decision, decisions, descriptions, destination, dollar, examples, existence, face, facebook, fact, Faith, father, fathers, feedback, feelings, France, Franklin, French, Gandhi, Google, great, grid, happenings, himself, History, independence, intuition, Jesus, leader, leaders, leadership, letter, Life, liner, Look, loop, Luther, Martian, moment, Monarchy, months, Nation, news, office, options, orders, ports, purpose, qualities, reaction, results, revolution, rumors, Self, seminars, solution, Statesmen, Sure, tablets, team, text, think, times, tools, trust, Verbal, vessel, Washington, weeks, word, words, workshop, world, Written

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Leadership is something we hear about all the time, we can attend seminars, read books and articles and even blog post. Everyone seems have the solution to being a leader. To me it seems that the title of the book or workshop seems to be more important that … Continue reading Ben Franklin and Leadership

Naked: A Lenten Reflection

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Image via Wikipedia 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” … Continue reading Naked: A Lenten Reflection

Overturned: A Lenten Reflection

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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

Rest: A Lenten Reflection

March 1, 2012March 1, 2012 Paul Sposite Faith, Family, Improvement, Lent, Life, Prayer actions, activities, breath, commandment, contemplation, conversation, creator, father, fathers, hearts, himself, importance, Jesus, Lenten, Life, Lord, meditation, moment, peace, places, Prayer, reflection, refuge, relaxation, response, rest, Sabbath, times, winter, word, words, work, world

In a world that is always on the run, were each moment is scheduled and every activity planned the word rest can seem a bit odd. How often have I heard people so, I have no time for rest, too much to do, too many places to go. It is a common response, sad to … Continue reading Rest: A Lenten Reflection

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

Mr. President, your pint of blood is ready…

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Image via Wikipedia Strange days indeed… A quote from John Lennon from: Everybody's talking and no one says a word Everybody's making love and no one really cares There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs Always something happening and nothing going on There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot They're starving … Continue reading Mr. President, your pint of blood is ready…

Destiny in a Flux

June 21, 2010 Paul Sposite Conservative Catholics, dad, Death, Faith, Family, Friendship, History, Liberal Catholics, Media, news, Radio, social justice acceptance, administration, america, American, Americans, Americas, arguments, articles, attention, beacon, children, christian, collision, concept, conscience, courage, creation, cultures, deception, destiny, destruction, detriment, differences, discovery, donor, fabric, fact, fathers, femi, Flux, freedom, gender, generation, Genetics, Guilt, health, hell, hilltops, himself, History, human, ideas, independence, interpretations, Just, justice, leader, Lies, Life, lifestyle, limb, male, mantra, maybe, moment, Nation, Nations, Nazi, Nazis, norm, November, obama, orientation, paradigm, pursuit, quilt, refuges, repercussions, reports, rights, road, scope, Second, Sexual, size, species, Statue, status, terrorist, times, tradition, truth, truths, unit, universe, Utopia, woman, word, world

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was Fathers Day, so to all the dad’s Happy Fathers Day! The word dad is a lot larger than the 3 letters that make it up, the word dad encompasses a whole concept and radical idea, or at least in today’s world it seems radical. As of late the media has … Continue reading Destiny in a Flux

A Community of Friends

April 29, 2010 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Faith, Friendship, Media, news, Prayer, social justice About, actions, activities, Allen, Amazon, American, areas, articles, aspect, basis, BibleGateway, blog, Catholic, Catholics, christ, christian, church, compartments, conversation, Corporal, courage, Death, Earth, ends, fact, Faith, father, fellowship, followers, Form, friend, friends, Friendship, friendships, Galaxy, gifts, help, himself, History, human, image, Jesus, John, Judas, Life, LITTLE, Magdalene, mary, mercy, ministry, moments, money, Myth, Nations, needs, obligation, parish, Paul, places, Prayer, predator, principle, Rather, Redeemer, reports, resurrection, rights, Roland, Roman, Scandal, scandals, shop, Should, situation, Sometimes, Spiritual, STATIC, Sure, talents, talks, three, times, tool, travels, truth, words, Works, world, Write

Image via Wikipedia As part of my job, my 9 to 5 job, the one that pays my bills, I get to travel the world. I love that aspect of my job, I love going to new places. Not only do I get to go to new places, I get to make new friends. I … Continue reading A Community of Friends

Love becoming Loving

April 27, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Conservative Catholics, Death, Ego, Faith, Liberal Catholics, Life, social justice, Works abel, Abraham, Abrahams, action, actions, altar, Amazon, angel, animals, articles, BibleGateway, Both, Cain, Catholics, Chosen, christ, christian, Common, concept, Could, creation, depth, descendants, description, devil, dialogue, difference, dilemma, donkey, Earth, ends, enemies, energy, father, Fist, food, Friendship, fruit, Genesis, glorification, glory, heaven, help, Here, himself, human, image, intentions, International, Isaac, items, Jesus, John, justice, kids, knowledge, lamb, Later, lessons, Life, Lord, love, Luke, Moriah, mountain, mountains, Nations, needs, Offer, offerings, Once, pain, Paul, people, persecution, Peter, portions, possession, Prayerbook, preservation, provide, Psalm, rebellion, region, results, rights, Sacrifice, salvation, scripture, Second, Self, servants, STATIC, staticyouth, stay, stones, Suck, Take, Testament, thicket, Third, times, Uncommon, unrest, verb, version, wood, word, words, world, Zion

Image via Wikipedia I am sure as Catholics you have heard the phrase “Offer it up” as in offer up all your pain and suffering to Jesus. I know I have heard it and to me it often sounds like “Suck it up” a phrase we often times tell our kids when they get hut … Continue reading Love becoming Loving

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