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Faith: How to Keep It

Richard Auciello August 26, AD2022 8 Comments

Jesus Is Taken Down From the Cross My hour of prayer begins as I approach the thirteenth Station. The focus of this station is the

Field Trip: And God Walked With Us

Richard Auciello July 27, AD2022 4 Comments

What is prayer? Why pray? Does it matter? Does God listen? A thousand questions may elicit a thousand different answers, some true, some not. No

Healing and Holiness Through the Death of our Lord:

Richard Auciello June 30, AD2022 6 Comments

A friend of mine asked me three questions and I’d like to share those questions and answers with you, the reader. The first question: “Why

Crossing the Chasm

Richard Auciello May 28, AD2022 3 Comments

During my Holy Hour, I began to see images of a chasm with people on either side. Those on the right were in a “state

Violence in the Mirror of My Sins

Richard Auciello April 11, AD2022 5 Comments

I grew up in a world of violence, violence at home, violence at school, violence in the neighborhood, and before receiving the sacrament of Baptism

Crises in Catechesis

Richard Auciello March 24, AD2022 12 Comments

Sometimes in hindsight, I look back and wonder: “should I have done this instead of that, gone uphill instead of downhill? The counterargument, which brings

Church and Culture in Conflict

Richard Auciello February 28, AD2022 2 Comments

If the teachings of the Church are obscure or ambiguous and in many parishes today this is precisely the situation, then how can the concerned

Answering Readers’ Comments

Richard Auciello January 26, AD2022 3 Comments

As a columnist I have not always done my best in responding to my readers’ comments, that’s why in this article I shall do what

Fear or Faith?

Richard Auciello January 3, AD2022 1 Comment

The long walk from the city shelter back to the nuns’ shelter was foreboding: the streets were not well lighted, most of the lights were

Don’t Blame God

Richard Auciello November 27, AD2021 8 Comments

Recently I read an article about a diver caught up in a terrible accident. He came to the surface near the shore and was hit

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The Gift of Faith: Protect It or Lose It

Richard Auciello October 28, AD2021 3 Comments

Faith is a gift given by God, a gift we can nourish and help grow or a gift we can squander. The question arises whether

An Invitation to Stand By the Truth

Richard Auciello September 22, AD2021 1 Comment

Can God use what is best in us to show His love to the world? Can His light shine through us and reach others? Yes,

Do My Sins Cause Suffering?

Richard Auciello September 1, AD2021 1 Comment

Prayer might seem simple, yet it actually is something rather mysterious, serving as a bridge between two worlds. Sometimes prayer is easy, other times very

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Mortal Sin and the Eucharist

Richard Auciello August 1, AD2021 4 Comments

I made a promise, with God as my witness, when I converted to Catholicism. The promise I made is simple, direct, and meaningful; actually, it’s more

Meditations on the Passion of Christ: The Stations

Richard Auciello July 4, AD2021 2 Comments

My journey into mediation began by praying the Stations of the Cross. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains what Catholic meditation is: Meditation is

Our Creator on the Cross

Richard Auciello May 26, AD2021 6 Comments

When our churches were closed, I learned to use the Stations of the Cross visibly displayed outside of my local church as a catalyst for

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Trouble in our Church

Richard Auciello April 25, AD2021 6 Comments

Yes, there is trouble in the Church, our Church, the Catholic Church. By trouble, I mean “something is wrong,” something that needs to be corrected

A Modern Day Miracle

Richard Auciello April 8, AD2021 6 Comments

For quite some time I was content with believing that real miracles only happened in Biblical times. I thought Jesus in the Gospels and his

Think on the Things of Heaven, Not of the Earth

Richard Auciello February 26, AD2021 5 Comments

As I was reading Our Lady of Fatima by Fr. William Thomas Walsh I came across a quote that caused me to suddenly stop reading;

CCD Concerns: Christ Without the Cross?

Richard Auciello February 4, AD2021 2 Comments

Is there something wrong with our religious education programs; has doctrine been buried under euphemisms and “feel good’ concepts? Forty years ago, when I taught