Recovery and Healing Through His Grace














"Beloved:
Clothe yourselves with humility
in your dealings with one another, for:

God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.

So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.
Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.

Be sober and vigilant.
Your opponent the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, steadfast in faith,
knowing that your brothers and sisters throughout the world
undergo the same sufferings.

The God of all grace
who called you to his eternal glory through Christ Jesus
will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you
after you have suffered a little.
To him be dominion forever. Amen."
1 Peter 5:5B-14



Resources



First Impressions: Exposure to Violence and a Child's Developing


Sometimes, What Children Don't Know (Love), Can Hurt Them






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Fearful Yet Overjoyed


"Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb,
fearful yet overjoyed and ran to announce the news to his disciples..."
"This is beautiful, and this is the mission of...
mothers and women...to give witness to their children
and grandchildren that Christ is Risen!"





"[F]eminine genius is centered on the redemptive act of Jesus Christ...
[For] a woman's relationship to the sacred keeps the Church and society on an even keel..."
Feminine Genius


"For our children to be 'godly offspring', they must orient their lives more
and more around Jesus as their King..." (p. 336).
Applying Our Faith in Service in Catholic Education: Homeward Bound
Mary Hasson, Author and Former Attorney

The Resurrection of Jesus
"The essence of evangelization is to tell everybody,
'Jesus died for you'" (Audio, April 6, 1999).
Mother Angelica, Founder, EWTN - Global Catholic Network

"It is to women, that God has entrusted the human person.
Safe-guarding the human person is important for the culture of societies."
Association of Catholic Women

"[B]lessings...can be your if you call on Mary.  She is waiting
for you with love of a mother's heart to lead you to her Son."
Call on Mary. She will lead you to Jesus
Marilyn Mathers, Founder CatholicWomen.com

"What I can do, you cannot.  What you can do, I cannot.
But together, we can do something beautiful for God.
Mother Teresa Of Calcutta Center
Mother Teresa, Founder Missionaries of Calcutta, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1979)

"Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God... Catholic doctors are so necessary!"
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, Wife, Mother, Doctor, Prolife Witness


"I grew up atheist.  As far back as I can remember,
it seemed simply obvious to me that neither God nor any kind of spiritual realm existed...
Research led me to the shocking conclusion that God exists,
and more shocking conclusion that 
he became man in the form of Jesus of Nazareth."
Conversion Diary
Jennifer Fulwiler, Blogger for National Catholic Register

Women Overjoyed to Announce The News

Living His Life Abundantly
"The mission of the apostolate of Living His Life Abundantly International, Inc. is to mend the Christian Fabric of today's culture by proclaiming the
abundant life in Jesus Christ
through all manner of communications and media."
Johnnette S. Bendovic, Founder and President

"Pediatrician, mother and best-selling author of six books,
Dr. Meg Meeker is the country's leading authority
on parenting, teens and children's health."
Meg Meeker, M.D.

"[M]editate upoin the mysteries of Christ, following the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary
who was so singularly associated with the incarnation, passion and glorious
resurrection of the Son of God."
Teresa Tomeo

 "[W]e celebrate all things Faith, Family
and Fun from a Catholic perspective."
Lisa M. Hendey, Founder CatholicMom.com

Jennifer Willits, Co-Host
The Catholics Next Door

"At Voice of Virtue, we're on a mission to help teens
defeat the temptations, rekindle what is good, true and
holy in their own lives, and live each day as
Jesus Christ wants them to."
Voice of Virtue
Barbara McGuigan, President and CEO

"The mission of Mary's Advocates is to strengthen marriage, to eliminate forced no-fault divorce, and to support those who have been unjustly abandoned by their spouse."
Marie (Bai) Macfarlane, Founder Mary's Advocates

Women Doctors of the Church

(Amazon.com)



The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity
Dr. Meg Meeker

From the heart of a parent, uniting with Mary in prayer and reflecting on the thoughts she may
have had beginning with her son's infancy, then empathizing with her being confronted with Christ's Passion, is an incomprehensible experience.  To imagine her as a mother witness her son after the Resurrection, is simply stunning, captivating, and points one to God's grace, comfort, power, and miracle available in the lives of us all. - Edward C.L.D., Catholic Dads HQ


Change the World Together
This Ordinary Life by Michele McGovern





Originally Posted 04.2011.  Updated 04.03.2013.
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Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of the Lord



"Belief in Jesus, as God [is a] myth"
Bill O'Reilly v. Dave Silverman American Atheists (04.07.2012)

Atheists are called to "Make the decisions for the rest of your lives."

"Even when we have everything, we have a deep awareness that points to the need for more."
The New Atheists, Fr. R. Barron

There is More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye
(Vatican Radio Podcast)

Easter
"Beauty now for ashes wear,
Perfumes for the garb of woe,
Chaplets for dishevelled hair,
Dances for sad footsteps slow;
Open wide your hearts that they
Let in joy this Easter Day."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1884 - 1889)
CatholicCulture.org

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"But if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?  [I]f Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished."
1 Cor. 15:12-18


"We don't realize how dangerous Jesus was.  If he is who he says he is, then we have to give our whole life to him.  If he is not who he says he is, he is not a good man, he is a dangerous, misguided, fanatic."
Fr. Robert Barron  


Franciscan University Presents: The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus





"We've been able to reconstruct the text of the The New Testament with about 99% accuracy... It is the best attested book in ancient history."
William Lane Craig: The Evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, 2011. 1:27:25.


Resurrection of the Body
"The resurrection of the body is an essential Christian doctrine..."
Catholic.com

"The fact of Christ's Resurrection is attested by more than 500 eyewitnesses, whose experience, simplicity, and uprightness of life rendered them incapable of inventing such a fable."
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (New Advent).

"I found the evidence of...the number of witnesses to the Resurrection compelling.
The Resurrection is established as a solid historical fact."
Robert H. Bork, American Legal Scholar and Law Professor

Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ
"Which theory about what really happened in Jerusalem on that first Easter Sunday can account for the data?
There are five possible theories: Christianity, hallucination, myth, conspiracy and swoon."
Peter Kreeft, Philosopher, professor, Christian apologist, author



Why I Am a Catholic - Dr. Peter Kreeft, Phd. Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

The Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Part I and Part II
"Something happened over 1,970 years ago that changed the course of world history...
This event is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
Dr. Gary R. Gromacki, Biblical Homiletics, Baptist Bible College

"I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved his divinity by rising from the dead. That meant following him was the most rational and logical step I could possibly take."
Lee Strobel, Former award-winning Legal Editor of The Chicago Tribune

Implication of the Resurrection for Christian Psychology
"The resurrection means that we presently see, touch, hear, smell,
and taste is not all there is to the story of being human.
We are not a 'closed' universe, meaning that God has always been
and remains active and immanent."
Dr. David Jenkins, University in Lynchburg

Against the Efforts of an Ever Reviving Gnosis
"It is very important, gentlemen, to stress the empirical and sensible fact of the Easter apparitions. If we do not do so, we Christians will run the great risk of changing Christianity into a form of gnosis."

Jesus of Nazareth II
"[I]n overcoming death, [Christ] transformed the expectation of the afterlife."
Dr. John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews

Burial in Ancient Israel Part 7: The Burial of Christ
"But something else happened. The women were unable to perform their ablutions on the man they called Lord. Of all the burials and customs we’ve seen and discussed, from es-Skhul to the ossuary of Caiaphas, this one ended like no other."
Thomas L. McDonald
"[The resurrection] is a historical event that nevertheless bursts open the dimensions of history and transcends it...[I]t can be attested by witnesses as an event of an entirely new kind."
Pope Benedict XVI





Faith & Reason (Video Playlist)

"With the resurrection of Jesus, light itself is created anew.  He draws all of us after him into the new light of the resurrection and he conquers all darkness.  He is God's new day, new for all of us."
Pope Benedict XVI, 2012




Catholics Come Home
"Catholics Come Home, Inc....creates effective and compassionate media messages...to inspire, educate and evangelize inactive Catholics and others..."

Hosted by WordOnFire.org - Word On Fire "draws over 1 million visitors a year from every continent. Fr. Barron posts weekly video clips, commentaries and radio sermons and offers an audio archive of over 500 homilies." 


Published: 04.2011.  Updated: 04.08.2012; 04.05.2013

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