Showing posts with label Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Believe the Impossible and You Can Do the Incredible - Archbishop Fulton Sheen


Archbishop Fulton SheenArchbishop Fulton Sheen talks about why we need to change our indifference and apathy, and transform it in faith and energy, so you can see impossible things can be done.

So you see how important it is to having in the mind an idea to do all that you can, to work to the limit of your ability. Our world is really suffering from indifference; indifference is apathy, not caring. Maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference than he did in the crucifixion.

Matthew 14:28-32. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.


Monday, October 20, 2014

The Catholic Mass Explained - Archbishop Fulton Sheen

The Catholic Mass Explained
In this lesson Archbishop Fulton Sheen is going to describe the Mass in terms of three of its principal parts: the offertory, the consecration and the communion.

A great American patriot once said that he regretted he had only one life to give for his country, he meant that his love was greater than his sacrifice, if his life could be given only once in time and therefore could not be repeated. It is very different with the life of our Lord, where the life was given once and it is eternally given and it is eternally and repeated in the sacrifice of the mass...