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| Topic Started: Thursday, 28. September 2006, 10:11 (1,252 Views) | |
| Rose of York | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 01:28 Post #61 |
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Some parents, hopefully a minority, reject their families. It is an increasingly common problem. I knew a woman who desperately wanted to help her mother, who was totally housebound. The daughter and her husband wanted to shop, cook and garden for the mother, who kept saying "I don't need your help." She got meals delivered, and a cleaner arranged by social services. Often would have neighbours running round after her doing all sorts of jobs, and she arranged it that they would come when the daughter called in, daily, after work. As a result the daughter and son-in-law were accused. by many, of being uncaring. I knew the truth about the situation, and I also knew they had spent money they could ill afford, on having the mother's home repaired on more than once occasion. We cannot always judge by appearances. I wonder if the Prodigal Son was unhappy at home? How had he been treated? |
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| nelly k | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 02:23 Post #62 |
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Somtimes as a Mum and a wife, I feel like doing a Prodical son, and I think children often want and possibly need to do a prodical son, they need to grow up and understand what ther parents have done for them. I meet a lot of Families in my work, and often the elderly Parent feels guilty about the workload they may now be giving there adult children, which in turn can make the adutl child feel bad, but it is a case of what comesaround goes around , theres children tend to have had very good family rlationships and dont forget that they were feed and loved and all that goes with it so they give back even if it is tuff, there will sadly always be many others who dont reap what they have sown, and then there are the Kids that are carers, now that is something else... nelly |
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| tomais | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 18:23 Post #63 |
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For some while now I have been in contact with Zimbabwe and Harare in particular; both individuals and press. re this sermon- re the jesuit educated Prsd Magabe and my Catholic contacts- this sermon has just been dissipated by the " winds of change". Ah me another series of disasociated words against cruet- deaf cruelty Cold here in Edinburgh but what a climate in Zimbabwe- words words words. And the UK government have just woken up from their lethargy- |
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| Rose of York | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 18:33 Post #64 |
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The UK Government tried to keep us thinking non stop about healthy eating, now global warming, so we would not take any notice of anything else on the political scene. |
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| Deacon Robert | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 20:25 Post #65 |
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Rose it is an old story when it comes to politicians "give them bread and circuses" |
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne | |
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| Deacon Robert | Sunday, 18. March 2007, 21:46 Post #66 |
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Saint Romanos the Melodious (? – around 560), Composer of hymns Hymn 28, The Prodigal Child “We had to celebrate… This brother of yours was dead, and has come back to life.” The older son said to his father in anger: “I constantly obeyed your orders, without disobeying a single one… and the prodigal one comes back to you, and you make more of him than of me!” The father had only just heard his son speak in this way, when he gently answered: “Listen to your father. You are with me, for you never distanced yourself from me; you did not separate yourself from the Church; you are always present at my side together with all my angels. But this one has come covered with shame, naked and with no beauty, crying: “Have mercy on me! I have sinned, Father, and as one who is guilty, I implore you. Accept me as a day laborer and feed me, for you love human beings, Lord and master of the ages.” “Your brother cried out: ‘Save me, holy Father!’… How could I not have mercy, not save my son who was moaning and sobbing? … Judge me, you who blame me… At all times, it is my joy to love human beings… They are my creatures: how could I not have mercy on them? How could I not have compassion when they repent? My entrails have brought forth this child on whom I had mercy, I who am the Lord and master of the ages. “Everything I have is yours, my son… The fortune you have has not been diminished by this, for I don’t take away from it when I give your brother gifts… I am the one and only creator of both of you, the one and only father who is good, loving and merciful. I honor you, my son, for you have always loved and served me. And on him I have compassion, for he is surrendering entirely to his repentance. So you should share the joy of all whom I have invited, I, the Lord and master of the ages. “Thus, my son, rejoice with all who have been invited to the banquet, and mingle your songs with those of all the angels, for your brother was lost and now he has been found again, he was dead and contrary to all expectations, he has risen.” The older son let himself be persuaded by these words, and he sang: “Everyone, cry out with joy! ‘Happy is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered.’ (Ps 32:1) I praise you, o friend of humankind, you who also saved my brother, you, the Lord and master of the ages.” |
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| Eve | Thursday, 22. March 2007, 09:23 Post #67 |
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Pressing On Austin Milner O.P. 25 March 2007 Fifth Sunday of Lent © Fr Austin Milner preaches on St Paul's call to empty ourselves and be raised up with Christ.
fr Austin Milner teaches Christian Worship, Sacramental Theology and Church History at Blackfriars, Oxford. |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 12. April 2007, 09:02 Post #68 |
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Sermon - Life in the Spirit |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 12. April 2007, 09:04 Post #69 |
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Reproduced by Catholic Cyberforum, with Permission from the Order of Preachers |
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| Rose of York | Friday, 13. April 2007, 08:44 Post #70 |
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What do you all think of the Dominicans' sermons? I like them because they relate to my life, and guide me in how God and the Church want me to live it. The sermons are easy to understand. I showed this one to a Catholic convert who wanted to know "why confess if it is not serious, we can say sorry direct to God". Well it is all serious! |
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| nelly k | Friday, 13. April 2007, 09:16 Post #71 |
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Rose I think it explains thing realy well , I ve printed it off, for refrance, nelly |
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| Eve | Friday, 27. April 2007, 22:19 Post #72 |
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http://torch.op.org/preaching/sermon/1157 Reproduced on the forum with the kind permission of the Order of Preachers |
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| Eve | Friday, 27. April 2007, 22:22 Post #73 |
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This week's sermon from the Domicans reinforces what some members of this forum have said, that the culture in which we are born, affects our beliefs. Would any members like to comment? |
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| Rose of York | Friday, 27. April 2007, 22:40 Post #74 |
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<!--QuoteBegin-Sheep Who Don't Follow the Herd John D. O'Connor O.P.+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Sheep Who Don't Follow the Herd John D. O'Connor O.P.)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Most of us follow what others do, conforming to our society of many voices, a society that tells us we are all liberated, that we all have free choice. Yet society holds great sway. What we see and hear in the media shapes our attitudes and influences how we think. Those whom we meet in our daily lives through their values and their behaviour affect our own standards and expectations. We certainly live in an age where Christian or religious values in general cannot be assumed. In the space of fifty years a sea change in attitudes has occurred. Instead of there being pressure to conform to religious practice and values, the pressure now operates in a very different direction. This has an impact on young people in particular. Young men and women who wish to live out Christian values face immense challenges. Gone are many of the support structures to guide them that their parents' generation would have taken for granted. Just consider the challenges these young adults face. The majority of their peers have a very different understanding of how to conduct relationships from that of the Christian vision. This generates considerable pressure on these young people trying to find their way in a world where the joy of finding someone with whom one could imagine sharing one's life is not something that can be taken for granted. [/QUOTE] How very true. When I was a child most of the people I knew well went to Church or Chapel. Whether Catholic or Protestant, all believed marriage was the only acceptable vehicle for the conception of children. Divorce was rare. Couples just did no cohabit. Drugs were the great new medicines available from the new National Health Service. Young men were pleased they were no longer expected to shoot people, once the war was over. So, if there was peer pressure, it was to live according to Christian principles. Now the peer pressure is, to make up one's own mind what is right and what is wrong and accept that "everybody has a right to their opinions and it takes all sorts to make a world". Membership of a parish helps keep me on a fairly even keel (hopefully!) |
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